Verse

| B | E | G#m | F# | I used to shut my door while my mother screamed in the kitchen| B | E | G#m | F# | I’d turn the music up get high and try not to listen | B | E | G#m | F# |to every little fight cause neither one was right | B | E | G#m | F# |I swore I’d never be like them but I was just a kid back then

* Hook

E F#the older I get the more that I see B G#mmy parents aren’t heroes they’re just like me E F#cause loving is hard it don’t always work B G#myou just try your best not to get hurt E F#I used to get mad but now I know | B F#/A# | G#m |sometimes it better to let someone go | E | E |I just hadn’t hit me yet the older I get

Verse 2

| B | E | G#m | F# | I used to wonder why Why they could never be happy| B | E | G#m | F# | I used to close my eyes And pray for a whole ‘nother family | B | E | G#m | F# |Where everything was fine One that felt like mine | B | E | G#m | F# |I swore I’d never be like them But I was just a kid back then

* Hook

E F#the older I get the more that I see B G#mmy parents aren’t heroes they’re just like me E F#cause loving is hard it don’t always work B G#myou just try your best not to get hurt E F#I used to get mad but now I know | B F#/A# | G#m |sometimes it better to let someone go | E | E |I just hadn’t hit me yet the older I get

Instruments

| B | E | G#m | F# | [x2]

* Hook

E F#the older I get the more that I see B G#mmy parents aren’t heroes they’re just like me E F#cause loving is hard it don’t always work B G#myou just try your best not to get hurt E F#I used to get mad but now I know | B F#/A# | G#m |sometimes it better to let someone go | E | E |I just hadn’t hit me yet the older I get

Instruments

| E | F# | B | G#m | [x4]| E |