Paint By Numbers chords

[C] [D] [F] [C] [F] [G]

on the [C]playground you[G] learned how to [F]share with the kids,
but you [C]still didn't [F]feel you fit [G]in.
how [C]fitting your con[G]fusion when you [F]turned 16:
you knew [C]how to paint by [F]numbers, but you [D]knew it wasn't [G]rock and [C]roll.

you learned [C]tight pants, [G]spray paint, and [F]eyeliner.
you said [C]glam rock would [F]save your [D]soul.
but you [C]couldn't grasp that the re[F]bellion you wanted
wasn't [D]something you could [G]ever be [C]sold.

and I never under[G]stood how someone could [D]be so willing to[F] be
absorbed into what [G]I never thought could [D]pass as identi[F]ty.
and I always felt [D]bad for the kids who had to [C]share their faces
with sad [G]teenagers ac[D]ross the [F]world
who'd found [C]something to fill their [F]loss,
with[F]out ever add[G]ressing the [C]cause.

then I saw your [C]speech impediment imitated [F]exactly
by a girl in [G]seattle and a guy in minne[C]apolis,
so i [C]guess you must have [F]learned that from t[G]v [C]

you [C]said you'd find your[F]self for real,
but fell[G] that far from th[C]e goal-
you [C]had to paint by [F]numbers but knew it wasn't [G7]r-r-r-r-rock an[C]d roll .