Bigger On The Inside chords by Amanda Palmer

Chords with lyrics

Amanda Palmer -- "Bigger on the Inside"

Use the third fret on the BB string for accents if you would like.

G+G C majorC A augmentedA C majorC

   G+G
You’d think I’d shot their children
     C majorC
From the way that they are talking
      A augmentedA
And there’s no point in responding
     C majorC
‘Cause it will not make them stop.

     G+G
And I am tired of explaining
    C majorC
And of seeing so much hating
    A augmentedA
In the very same safe havens
    C majorC
Where I used to just see helping


     G+G
I’ve been drunk and skipping dinner
    C majorC
Eating skin from off my fingers
   A augmentedA
And I tried to call my brother
    C majorC
But he no longer exists


     G+G
I keep forgetting to remember
    C majorC
That he would have been much prouder
   A augmentedA
If he saw me shake these insults off
 C majorC
Instead of getting bitter


   A augmentedA
I am bigger on the inside
    C majorC
But you have to come inside to see me
A augmentedA
Otherwise you’re only hating
G+G
Other people’s low-res copies

G+G


   G+G
You’d think I’d learn my lesson
     C majorC
From the way they keep on testing
   A augmentedA
My capacity for pain
     C majorC
And my resolve to not get violent


  G+G
But though my skin is thickened
    C majorC
Certain spots can still be got in
   A augmentedA
It is typically human of me
C majorC
Thinking I am different

  G+G
To friends hooked up to hospital
 C majorC
Machines, two kinds of cancer
     A augmentedA
And there is no better place than from this
C majorC
Waiting room to answer


      G+G
The French kid who wrote an e-mail
    C majorC
To the website late last night
      A augmentedA
His father raped him and he’s scared
       C majorC
He asked me “How do you keep fighting?"


    G+G
And the truth is I don’t know
       C majorC
I think it’s funny that he asked me
     A augmentedA
‘Cause I don’t feel like a fighter lately
C majorC
I am too unhappy


    A augmentedA
You are bigger on the inside
     C majorC
But your father cannot see
      A augmentedA
You need to tell someone, be strong
       G+G
And somewhere some dumb rockstar truly loves you.


G+G


   G+G
You’d think I’d get perspective
    C majorC
From my few years by the bedside
   A augmentedA
It is difficult to see the ones I
C majorC
Love so close to death


      G+G
All their infections and procedures
    C majorC
And the will to live at all in question
A augmentedA
Can I not accept that my own
C majorC
Problems are so small?


      G+G
You took my hand when you woke up
      C majorC
I had been crying in the darkness
    A augmentedA
We all die alone but I am so, so
C majorC
glad that you are here

       A augmentedA
You whispered “We are so much bigger on the
C majorC
inside, you, me, everybody
A augmentedA
Some day when you’re lying where I
G+G
am, you’ll finally get it truly"


A augmentedA
We are so much bigger
   C majorC
Than another one can ever see
A augmentedA
Trying is the point of life
  G+G
So don’t stop trying

Promise me.