Key: A
Introduction: Em D C
Em D C
I was born in a thunderstorm,
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I grew up overnight, I played alone,
C Am
I'm playing on my own, I survived.
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Hey, I wanted everything I never had,
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like the love that comes with life
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I wore Ambien and I hated it,
B
but I survived.
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I had wanted to go to a place where all the demons go,
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where the wind don't change and nothing in the ground can ever grow,
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No hope, just lies and you're taught to cry in your pillow,
B
but I'll survive.
Em D C A
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing,
Em D C A
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing,
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I'm alive,
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I'm alive,
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I'm alive,
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I'm alive.
Em D C
I found solace in the strangest place,
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way in the back of my mind.
Em D C B
I saw my life in a stranger's face and it was mine.
Em D C
I had wanted to go to a place where all the demons go,
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where the wind don't change and nothing in the ground can ever grow,
Em D C
No hope, just lies and you're taught to cry in your pillow,
B
but I'll survive.
Em D C A
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing,
Em D C A
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing,
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I'm alive,
Em D G C
I'm alive,
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I'm alive,
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I'm alive.
Em D
You took it out, but I'm still breathing.
G C
You took it out, but I'm still breathing.
Em D
You took it out, but I'm still breathing.
G C
You took it out, but I'm still breathing.
G D
You took it out, but I'm still breathing.
Em C
You took it out, but I'm still breathing.
Em D
You took it out, but I'm still breathing.
G C
You took it out, but I'm still breathing.
Am
I had made every single mistake
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that you could ever possibly make.
Am
I took and I took and I took what you gave
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but you never noticed that I was in pain.
Am
I knew what I wanted, I went in and got it.
Em D
Did all the things that you said that I wouldn't,
Am
I told you that I would never be forgotten,
Em D B
I know that's part of you.
Em D C A
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing,
Em D C A
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing,
Em D G C
I'm alive,
(You took it out but I'm still breathing. You took it out but I'm still breathing.)
Em D G C
I'm alive,
(You took it out but I'm still breathing. You took it out but I'm still breathing.)
G D Em C
I'm alive,
(You took it out but I'm still breathing. You took it out but I'm still breathing.)
Em D G C
I'm alive,
Em D G C
I'm alive,
G D Em C
I'm alive,
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I'm alive.