Under The Knife chords by Icon For Hire

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
B minorBm                 D MajorD
This is the song I’m too scared to write
B minorBm              G+G
But some of you may need it tonight

Verse 1:
B minorBm         G+G
Oh there you were, heart made of glass
B minorBm           D MajorD
fragile little thing, shattered too fast
B minorBm            G+G
tried to pick the pieces up up up
B minorBm                D MajorD
and that’s the way you first got cut cut cut
B minorBm           G+G
Devil drew you in, you didn’t let it show
B minorBm            D MajorD
didn’t want the others to ever have to know
B minorBm               G+G
that you were getting hooked on up up up
B minorBm            D MajorD
and all you had to do was cut cut cut

Chorus:
  G+G        A augmentedA       B minorBm
You carved a special place for your pain
  G+G        A augmentedA       B minorBm
so it came back to hurt you every night
  G+G          A augmentedA       B minorBm
you closed your eyes and wished it all away
G+G      A augmentedA         B minorBm
until you disappeared under the knife

Verse 2:
B minorBm         G+G
You knew the deal, no one gives a damn
   B minorBm           D MajorD
just another needy kid, sob story in hand
B minorBm            G+G
keep your secrets covered up up up
B minorBm          D MajorD
we don’t need another cut cut cut
B minorBm           G+G
But you couldn’t hide a heart made of glass
B minorBm               D MajorD
You put yourself together with all the strength you had
B minorBm          G+G
You were finally fed up up up
B minorBm           D MajorD
finally had to scream enough –nough –nough

Chorus:
  G+G        A augmentedA       B minorBm
You carved a special place for your pain
  G+G        A augmentedA       B minorBm
so it came back to hurt you every night
  G+G          A augmentedA       B minorBm
you closed your eyes and wished it all away
G+G      A augmentedA         B minorBm
until you disappeared under the knife

Rap part:
B minorBm            G+G
Listen- I know it’s simplified from the other side
A augmentedA            E minorEm
it’s easy to gloss over all the messy reasons why
B minorBm         G+G
and it’s easy to forget where you’ve been
 A augmentedA                  E minorEm
I guess that’s what the scars are for, huh?
   B minorBm           G+G
When we were 15 we wouldn’t dare let that shit be seen
A augmentedA          E minorEm
but now it seems mutalation’s gone mainstream
B minorBm           G+G
I see you at my shows, scarred up from head to toe
A augmentedA             E minorEm
like there’s no point even trying not to let it show
B minorBm           G+G
Cause we all know, emo kids like to hurt themselves
A augmentedA           E minorEm
too many feelings and not enough self control
B minorBm             G+G
and I mean, does this mess any of the rest of you
A augmentedA             E minorEm
it’s an epidemic and we’re cool with it, don’t question it
    B minorBm               G+G
But it bothers me, our scars are currency by which we’re measured
   A augmentedA               E minorEm
like let the record show who let it slip and who held it together
B minorBm           G+G
cutters and burners and honorable mentions
A augmentedA               F# minorF#m
posers who still cut themselves up for the attention
G+G                A augmentedA
I don’t care your intentions, I just want you to know
  B minorBm
my self-hatred never took me where I wanted to go
G+G                   A augmentedA
and at the end of the day, you know I still had to face
      B minorBm
that I can pick at the pain, but can’t cut it away
         G+G              A augmentedA
and you know what else I can’t do is give you ten good reasons not to
   B minorBm
I’ve racked my brain for clever sayings of all the things you ought to do
G+G                  A augmentedA
But you know, I think if there was something I could say
      B minorBm
They’d have thrown it on a brochure- and sent you on your way

(N/C)
So I’ll keep doing what I always do: drag my heart to the piano and make it sing for you
I’ll keep doing what I always do: drag my heart to the piano and let it sing for you

G+G A augmentedA B minorBm x3
G+G A augmentedA
B minorBm