A Badtime Story chords by
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Key: A minor

Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Look what I got for Valentine's Day:
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Lady Luck came along,
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took my dreams away,
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And the tears hurt more
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than a broken nose -
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I bled from the thorns of
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a barbed- wire rose.
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I know

Verse 2

that I'm supposed to pray

Thanking God for each new day.

Would it disturb his master plan

To one day be a happy man?

Verse 3
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I've tried to be positive, tried to be nice.
I've turned the other cheek
so I'd get hurt twice.
I've forced a smile,
I've dropped my guard

Verse 4
I've seized the day but it bit me hard.
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Life's too short,
but long enough to gain
The cap and gown of misery,
suffering and pain.
No need to read my diary to
see what lies before me -
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Just another chapter in

Verse 5

my Badtime Story.

The end of love and laughter

Verse 6
Now we're happy never after.
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My  next birthday will, I fear
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Be much the same as every year.
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Inside the wrapping there
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Are a few more wrinkles
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and a little less hair.
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Another

Verse 7

Autumn leaf is turning,

One more soul for candle- burning.

Hid beneath the sham and glitter

I taste a cake that's stale and bitter.

Verse 8
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I've tried to be positive, tried to be nice.
I've turned the other cheek
so I'd get hurt twice.
I've forced a smile,
I've dropped my guard

Verse 9
I've seized the day but it bit me hard.
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Life's too short, but long enough to gain
The cap and gown of misery,
suffering and pain.
No need to read my diary to see
what lies before me -

Interlude 1
Just another chapter in my Badtime Story.
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Verse 10
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On my Christmas card last year it said:
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"So sorry, Santa Claus is dead.
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Crawl into the oven when
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you've had enough
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'cause it keeps sitting here quietly
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waiting to be stuffed."
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Verse 11

What a festive way to go

Here beneath the mistletoe,

With open eyes and an open wrist

To vanish from your Christmas list.

Verse 12
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I've tried to be positive, tried to be nice.
I've turned the other cheek
so I'd get hurt twice.
I've forced a smile,
I've dropped my guard
I've seized the day but it bit me hard.

Verse 13
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Life's too short,
but long enough to gain
The cap and gown of misery,
suffering and pain.
No need to read my diary to see
what lies before me -

Outro 1

Just another chapter in my Badtime Story.

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