Key: C
Introduction:
Em D
You, line em' up
C9
look-at your shoes
Em
you hang names on your wall
D C9
then you shoot them all
Em D
You-fly, around in planes
C9
that bring you down
Em
to meet me who loves you
D C9
like me crashing to the ground
D
Are you so lonely
C9
you don't even know me
D
but you'd like to stone me
Em G
Mr writer, why dont you tell it like it is
A
why don't you tell it like it really is
C9
before you go on home
Em D
I used, to treat you right
C9
give you my time
Em
but when i turn my back on you
D C9
let me do what you do
Em D C9
You've just enough, in my own view
Em
education to perform
D C9
i'd like to shoot you all
D
And then you go home
C9
with you on your own
D
what do you really know
so what do you really know, yeah
Em G
Mr writer, why dont you tell it like it is
A
why don't you tell it like it really is
C9
before you go on home
Em G
Mr writer why don't you tell it like it really is
A A7 A
why don't you tell it like it always is
C9
before you go on home, yeah yeah yeah
Em G
Mr writer... why don't you tell it like it really is
A A7 A
why don't you tell it like it always is
C9
before you go on home, yeah
before you go on home..