Key: Am
Introduction: Am C F G Am C F G
Am G C F
Why should I play this game of pretend?
Am G C F
Remembering through a secondhand sorrow?
Am G C F
Such a great son and wonderful friend
G C F
Oh, don' t the tears just pour
Am G C F
I could curl up and hide in my room
Am G C F
There in my bed still sobbing tomorrow
Am G C F
I could give in to all of the gloom
G C G
But tell me, tell me what for
Dm C/E
Why should I have a heavy heart?
F Am
Why should I start to break in pieces?
Dm C/E G
Why should I go and fall apart for you?
C
Why should I play the grieving girl and
G
Lie saying that I miss you
Am F G
And that my world has gone dark without your light
Dm C/E D/F# F Am
I will sing no requiem tonight
Am G Em F
I gave you the world, you threw it away,
Am G Em F
leaving these broken pieces behind you
Am G Em F
Everything wasted, nothing to say
Dm G
So I can sing no requiem
Am G Em F
I hear your voice, feel you near
Am G Em F
Within these words I finally find you
Am G Em D
And now that I know that you are still here
F G
I will sing no requiem tonight
Dm C/E
Why should I have a heavy heart?
F Am
Why should I say I' ll keep you with me?
Dm C/E G
Why should I go and fall apart for you?
C
Why should I play the grieving girl and
G
Lie saying that I miss you
Am F G
And that my world has gone dark without your light
Dm C/E D/F# F
I will sing no requiem
G
Tonight
F G
' Cuz when the villains fall, the kingdoms never weep
F
No one lights a candle to remember
G F
No, no one mourns at all
G
When they lay them down to sleep
Bb F C
So don' t tell me that I didn' t have it right
Bb F C
Don' t tell me that it wasn' t black and white
Bb F Bb F
After all you' ve put me through, don' t say it wasn' t true
Dm F
That you were not the monster that I knew,
C
Cause I cannot play the grieving girl and
G
Lie saying that I miss you
Am F C/E G
And that my world has gone dark
Dm C/E D/F# F
I will sing no requiem
Dm C/E D/F# F
I will sing no requiem
Dm C/E D/F# F
I will sing no requiem
Am
tonight
C F
Oh-oh
G Am
Oh-oh
C F
Oh-oh
G Am
Oh-oh