Tuning: Standard NOTE: The verse is played mainly by plucking the bass string verse: Em C I keep my hopes and dreams inside of you amongst the other things my mother seems to never see the bruises that I'm covering, D G F# Never been known by my government name, my foster home is where I've been placed away from the pain, Em C So as you sit before me with a folder holding my story, you're my savior with nothing on me but power and glory, D G F# And surely, you'll never ignore me , cos when the court came the court date was made to disappear for me, Em C You think you understand me but never what I went through but you were never meant to I won't hold it against you, D G F# I take a ballpoint pen to play dot to dot with the cigarette burns etched in my forearms, Em C Forget me not never let me stop you'll just sit and watch it's your job to be patient so you'll let me off, D D So come with me take a walk on the wild side, see life in a day through a child's eyes,
chorus: Em7 C D G F# And these dreams are all-l I have, to hold me, Em7 C D G D When sleeps the only-y thing that I want to take me away, away, verse: Em Okay sessions over time to get back to the classroom C I hate this lesson and I guess the teacher finds it hard to, D G F# You told me I should try my best but guess what I still find this trigonometry a head fuck, Em Constantly told I won't pass my GCSE's, C I'll end up in Mac D's, serving burgers and cheese, D But you told me I can do anything if I put my mind to it, G F# Mistakes make a change if you put a line through 'em, Em C Lately classmates think I'm crazy turn up daily resembling bill bailey, D G F# And I ain't saying that I can't be groomed with it without new clothes or shower it hard to do, Em C So after school you'll take me shopping for some new clothes but they'll get taken off me when I get back to the group home, D D So come with me take a walk on the wild side see life in a day through a child's eyes, Em7 C D G F# And these dreams are all-l I have, to hold me, Em7 C D G F#