Tuning: Standard Intro: Variations of G#m (continued into verse if desired) G#m B Your game, your lovely game F# Is like pain and suffering G#m B Your fame, your newly found fame F# Is like repeating history Prechorus: G#m B You know that keeping me around F# Makes me just quiver at the sound G#m B Wish I could feed their open mouths E F# With something worth it
Chorus: G#m Where is your backbone? G#m B Cause you’re looking very flimsy F# I'm breaking down your paper wall G#m Where is your backbone? G#m B If you hear it sing it with me F# Everybody take the fall G#m You look so sound asleep B I can't believe F# That your backbone's missing G#m (intro) And you never had a clue at all G#m B Believe, no I can't believe F# How little all this means to me G#m B You'll see, you'll just have to see E F# For yourself, the playback is deafening Prechorus, Chorus Inst: G#m, F#, E, F# 2x G#m You could've been something F# You could've been something memorable E I should've said something F# I should've said... Inst: G#m, F#, B, E, F# G#m Where is your backbone? G#m B Cause you’re looking very flimsy F# I'm breaking down your paper wall G#m Where is your backbone? G#m B If you hear it sing it with me F# Everybody take the fall G#m You look so sound asleep B I can't believe E That your backbone's missing F# G#m, F#, E, F# And you never had a clue at all G#m You look so sound asleep B I can't believe F# That your backbone's missing G#m7 (464444) And you never had a clue at all