Paint By Numbers chords

[D] [A] [G] [D] [A] [G] [D] [A] [G] [A] [D]

On the [D]playground you [A]learned how to [G]share with the kids,
but you [D]still didn't [A]feel you fit [G]in.
How [D]fitting your con[A]fusion when you [G]turned 16:
you knew [D]how to paint by [A]numbers, but you [G]knew it wasn't [A]rock and [D]roll.
you learned [D]tight pants, [A]spray paint, and [G]eyeliner.
you said [D]glam rock would [A]save your [G]soul.
But you [D]couldn't grasp that the re[A]bellion you wanted
wasn't [G]something you could [A]ever be [D]sold.
ANd I never under[E]stood how someone could [G]be so willing to [A]be
absorbed into what [E]I never thought could [G]pass as identi[A]ty.
And I always felt [E]bad for the kids who had to [G]share their faces
with sad [D]teenagers ac[A]ross the [G]world
who'd found [D]something to fill their [A]loss,
with[G]out ever add[A]ressing the [D]cause.
Then I saw your [D]speech patterns imitated ex[A]actly
by a girl in [G]seattle and again in minne[D]apolis,
so i [D]guess you must have [A]learned that from t[G]v.
you [D]said you'd find your[A]self for real,
but fell [G]that far from the [D]goal.
you [D]had to paint by [A]numbers but knew it wasn't [G]r-r-r-rock and [D]roll.