| G | C | G | |
| Button your lip and | don't let the shield slip. |
| C | G | |
| Take a fresh grip on your | bullet proof | mask. |
| C | G | D | C | |
| And if they try to break down your disguise with their | questions |
| G | D | C | G/B | Am | D | Am | |
| You can | hide, | hide, | hide, |
| G | |
| Behind paranoid | eyes. |
| G | C | G | |
| You put | on our brave face and slip | over the road for a | jar, |
| C | G | |
| Fixing your grin as you | casually lean on the | bar. |
| C | |
| Laughing too loud at the rest of the world |
| G | D | C | |
| With the | boys | in the | crowd. |
| G | D | C | Am | D | Am | |
| You | hide, | hide, | hide, |
| G | |
| Behind petrified | eyes. |
| C | G | C | G | C | G | Em | D | Am | G |
| G | C | G | |
| You be | lieved in their stories of | fame, fortune and | glory. |
| C | G | |
| Now you're lost in a haze of a | lchohol soft middle | age. |
| C | G | D | C | |
| The | pie in the sky turned out to be miles too | high. |
| G | D | C | Am | D | Am | |
| And you | hide, | hide, | hide, |
| Behind brown and mild eyes. |