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When I pic-ture my home-town,

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There’s a bronze spray-tanned stat-ue of you

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and a plaque un-der-neath it

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that threat-ens to push me down the stairs at our school.

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And it was al-ways the same sear-ing pain,

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but I dreamed that one day I could say:

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All that time you were throw-ing punch-es,

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I was build-ing some-thing.

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And I can’t for-give the way you made me feel.

1′ 1′ 1′ (1’35) 1′ 1′ 1′ (1’6) 1′ 1′ 1′ (4’61’) 3′ 1′ (1’5)
Screamed, “Fuck you, Ai-mee” to the night sky as the blood was gush-ing,

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but I can’t for-get the way you made me heal.

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And it was-n’t a fair fight

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or a clean kill each time that Ai-mee stomped a-cross my grave.

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And then she wrote head-lines

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in the lo-cal pa-per, laugh-ing at each ba-by step I’d take.

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And it was al-ways the same sear-ing pain,

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but I prayed that one day I could say:

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All that time you were throw-ing punch-es,

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I was build-ing some-thing.

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And I could-n’t wait to show you it was real.

1′ 1′ 1′ (1’35) 1′ 1′ 1′ (1’6) 1′ 1′ 1′ (4’61’) 3′ 1′ (1’5)
Screamed, “Fuck you, Ai-mee” to the night sky as the blood was gush-ing,

2′ 3′ (3’57) 1′ 1′ 5 (52) 4 4 3 (31)
but I can’t for-get the way you made me heal.

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Ev-‘ry-one knows that my moth-er is a saint-ly wom-an,

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but she used to say she wished that you were dead.

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I pushed each bould-der up the hill.

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You words are still just ring-ing in my head,

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ring-ing in my head.

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I wrote a thou-sand songs that you find un-cool.

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I build a leg-a-cy that you can’t un-do.

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But when I cound the scars, there’s a mo-ment of truth,

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that there wouldn’t be this if there had-n’t been

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you.

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And may-be you’ve re-framed it,

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and in your mind you nev-er beat my spir-it black and blue.

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I don’t think you’ve changed much,

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and so I changed your name and an-y real de-fin-ing clues.

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And one day your kid comes home sing-ing

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a song that on-ly us two is gon-na know is a-bout you, ’cause…

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all that time you were throw-ing punch-es,

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it was all for noth-ing.

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And our town, it looks so small from way up here.

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Screamed, “Thank you, Ai-mee” to the night sky and the stars are stun-ning.

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‘Cause I can’t for-get the way you made me heal.

1′ 1′ (1’35) 1′ 1′ 1′ (1’6) 1′ 1′ 1′ (4’61’) 3′ 1′ (1’5)
Ev-‘ry one knows that my moth-er is a saint-ly wom-an,

2′ 3′ (3’57) 1′ 1′ 5 (52) 4 4 3 (31)
but she used to say she wished that you were dead.

1′ 1′ 1′ 1′ (1’35) 1′ 1′ 1′ (1’6)
So I pushed each boul-der up that hill.

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Your words were still just ring-ing in my head,

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ring-ing in my head.

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Thank you, Ai-mee.

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Thank you, Ai-mee.

• Artist: Taylor Swift
• Kalimba Brand: Chill Angels

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How To Read The Tabs

SOLFEGE	DO	RE	MI	FA	SO	LA	TI
Letter Notes	C	D	E	F	G	A	B
Number Notes	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

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-Notes inside a parentheses (ex: (135) ) are played together (slide/glissando)
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