BmAGD/F#Em
I've been pretending to be somebody else since I was just fifteen
D/F#GABm
And I don't know if the show was for them or for me
AGD/F#Em
Any more, I'm not sure, and I don't recall being born
D/F#GABm
But I remember being underwhelmed when I worked out who I was
AGD/F#
Because that didn't fit with any of
EmD/F#GABm
The feelings I'd been feeling, the things I started thinking as a kid
AGD/F#Em
Who didn't know how to feel, but could instinctively pretend
D/F#GA
Put on a show. Was it for them? I have forgotten where this ends
D/F#A
Blinking in the light, emerging into something
Bm
Something isn't right, something isn't working
G
No one on my side, no sense of where I'm standing
Half my fucking life caught somewhere in-between
BmAGD/F#Em
I have been waiting for someone to say they've found out I'm a fake
D/F#GABm
A foundling fraudster on the take, a huckster hustling half his name
AGD/F#Em
Around the world, and I'd reply, goodness knows you're right
D/F#GABm
I know that guy, that is to say, I do not know that man at all
AGD/F#Em
After all, no one can, there's nothing there to know
D/F#GABm
It's just a show, oh the lights are on but nobody is home
AGD/F#Em
They kicked me out years ago, changed the locks and took my keys
D/F#GA
My memories seen through a window, like something I don't really own
D/F#A
Blinking in the light, emerging into something
Bm
Something isn't right, something isn't working
G
No one on my side, no sense of where I'm standing
D/F#
Half my fucking life caught somewhere in-between
A
Is it so much to ask? To be offered some protection
Bm
To be let go by the past, to feel some acceptance
G
To find somewhere to belong, and something to belong to
D/F#
A place where I'm allowed. Anywhere but in-between
A
Half my fucking life blinking in the darkness
Bm
Stuck on the outside, sick and mostly harmless
G
A stranger to myself, but still chasing their forgiveness
D/F#ABmG
For anything I did when I was somewhere in-between
D/F#
Always somewhere in-between