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Tell It How It Is

Key: E

Introduction:

 E 
If you’re trying to get in his head
Then you’re just wasting your breath
                                                       G#7 
'Cause he might as well be dead
                       C#m 
There just ain’t no getting through
                                                                 E 
If that’s what you’re trying to do
 E 
And to those who don’t know him yet
He don’t care if you ever do
                                     G#7 
He is faithful to himself
               C#m 
And it can hurt to hear the truth
                                                                   E 
But he just ain’t concerned with you
                     C#m                                                     E 
They were mean, said they were silly dreams
                                                               C#m 
So he had to leave, no time to grieve
Had to set out and find
                                                               E 
Something better than what he left behind
Something he knew was worth
                       C#m                   E 
All of his pain and hurt
 E 
He gets down on his own self
More than anybody else can
                                               G#7 
And it’s easy to understand
                       C#m 
But it can hurt to hear the truth
                                                                   E 
But he just ain’t concerned with you
               C#m                                           E 
'Cause spirits have their own minds
                                                                                     C#m 
They can’t be confined to fit between the lines
                                               E 
Spirits have their own minds
                                                                                 C#m 
They can’t be confined, they draw their own lies
           A                                 E 
It’s alright tell 'em how it is
           C#                                                     E 
Even though it don’t make you popular
     A                                 E 
Sometimes you gotta be a dick
                     C#                     E 
You don’t have to roll over
 E 
So to those who don’t know him yet
                 E 
He don’t care if you ever do
                                           G#7 
He is faithful to himself
                       C#m 
And it can hurt to hear the truth
                                                                   E 
But he just ain’t concerned with you
                     C#m                                                     E 
They were mean, said they were silly dreams
                                                               C#m 
So he had to leave, no time to grieve
Had to set out and find
                                                               E 
Something better than what he left behind
Something he knew was worth
                       C#m 
All of his pain and hurt
 C#m                                         E 
spirits have their own minds
                                                                                     C#m 
They can’t be confined, they draw their own lines
           A                                 E 
It’s alright tell 'em how it is
           C#                                                     E 
Even though it don’t make you popular
     A                                 E 
Sometimes you gotta be a dick
                     C#                     E 
You don’t have to roll over