Key: D
Introduction:
C G Dm C G C G
Don't want to find myself homogenized
Dm C G C G
Don't want to become the very thing that I despised
Dm C G C G
Don't need my mommy feeding me culture with a spoon
Dm C G C G
Don't want to end up with as much edge as a balloon
Pre-Chorus
F C G Dm
Don't want my ideas polluted by mediocrity
F C
Don't want my sentiments diluted
G C
This is important to me
G C Am Dm
I tried to give my best to you
Bm Em Am
But you plugged up your ears
G C Am Dm
And now I just can't take no more
Bm Em Am
I've had it up to here
Dm C G C G
Don't want to be the another boy next door
Dm C G C G
Don't want to pander to the masses anymore
Dm C G
Don't need the whole wide world to love me
C G
Don't want to win the human race
Dm C G C G
Don't want my music to be less well-known than my face
Pre-Chorus
F C G Dm
Don't want to compromise my art for universal appeal
F C
Don't want to be mass consumed
G C
I'm not a happy meal
G C Am Dm
I tried to give my best to you
Bm Em Am
But you plugged up your ears
G C Am Dm
And now I just can't take no more
Bm Em Am
I've had it up to here
Am G
I moved out from the sticks
F
Nobody believed in me
Am G
Had to climb my way up
F
Overcome all kinds of adversity
Dm G C C/B Am G#
Oh, if you think I need approval from the faceless throng oh
G
That's where you're wrong
C
So wrong
Am Bm C
(x2)
G C Am Dm
I tried to give my best to you
Bm Em Am
But you plugged up your ears
G C Am Dm
And now I just can't take no more
Bm Em Am
I've had it up to here
G
I've had it
C Am
I've had it
Dm Bm Em C
I've had it up to here