Chords for Beautiful

September 1st, 1989.
Dear Diary,
I believe I'm a good person.
[C] You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but_
Here we [G] are!
First day of senior year!
[C] And, uh_
I look around at [Eb] these kids that I've [F] known all my life, and I ask myself,
What [C] happened?
Freak!
Slut!
[F] Burnout!
Bug eyes!
Poser!
Lard ass!
[C] _ We were so tiny,
Happy and shiny,
Laying tag and getting chased.
Freak!
Slut!
Loser!
Troypus!
Kids singing and clapping,
[Cm] Laughing and napping,
Baking cookies, eating paste.
Bulldye!
Starkup!
[C] Hunchback!
Then we got bigger,
That was the trigger,
Like the Huns invading Rome.
Hwah!
Ah!
Oh, [Cm] sorry.
Welcome to my school,
This ain't no high school,
This is the [Fm] Thunderdome.
Hold your breath and count the [Eb] days,
We're graduating soon.
White [Db] trash!
College will be paradise,
[G] If I'm not head by [Gm] June!
_ [Ab] But I know,
_ _ [Eb] _ Life can be beautiful,
[Ab] I pray,
I [Eb] pray,
For a better way.
[Cm] If we'd changed [Eb] back then,
We [Db] could [Ab] change again,
We can [F] be beautiful.
_ [G] _ _
Ow!
Just [C] not today.
Hey, are you okay?
[F] Get away, [Ab] nerd!
Oh, [C] okay.
Freak!
[Cm] Slut!
[F] Cripple!
Homo!
Homo!
[Bb] Homo!
_ [C] Things will get better,
Soon as my letter,
Comes from Harvard, Duke, [F] or Brown.
Away from this coma,
[Cm] Take my diploma,
[C] Then I can blow this town.
[Fm] Dream of ivy-covered walls,
[Cm] And smoky French cafes.
[Db] Watch it!
Find the urge to strike a [G] match,
And set this dump up blaze!
[Bbm] Oops. _
Ramsweeny,
[Bb] Third year as linebacker,
And eighth year of smacking lunch trays,
And being a huge dick.
What did you say to me, [C] skank? Ah, nothing.
But [Eb] I know,
I know,
Life can [Bb] be beautiful.
[Ab] I pray,
I [Eb] pray,
For a better way.
We were [Bb] kind before,
We can be [Ab] kind once more.
[C] We can be [Dm] beautiful.
[D] Beautiful!
Ah!
Hey, Martha.
[C] Hey.
_ Martha Dunstock,
My best friend since diapers.
[G] We on for movie night?
Yeah.
You're [Cm] on Jiffy Pop detail.
I rented The Princess [F] Bride.
Oh, again?
Wait, don't you have it [Cm] memorized by now?
What can I say?
I'm a sucker for a happy ending.
Martha Dumstock,
[C] Wide load!
Ha!
[G] Ha [F]-ha!
Kirk Kelly,
Quarterback.
He is the smartest guy on the football team,
Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf.
Ha-ha!
All right!
Hey!
[B] Pick that up,
Right now!
I'm sorry,
Are you actually talking to [F] me?
Yes, I am.
I want to know what gives you the right to pick on my friend.
You're a high school has-been waiting to happen.
A future [A] gas station attendant. _
You have a zit right there.
Ha-ha! _ _
[Gm] Dear Diary,
[F] Why do they hate [C] me?
Why don't I fight back?
Why do [Bbm] I act like such [C] a creep?
Ah!
What [Bbm] would he date me?
[Eb] Why did I hit him?
[Bbm] Why do I cry [B] myself to sleep?
Ah!
Somebody [Ebm] help me!
Somebody [Bb] fix me!
[Ebm] Somebody save me!
Send [F] me a sign guard!
Give me some hope here!
[Bb] Something to live for!
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _
_ [B] Ah!
_ [F] Heather,
[Gm] _
[Eb] Heather,
And [D] Heather!
And then there's the [Bb] Heathers.
They float [Gm] above it all.
[D] _ [A] I love [F] Heather, _
[Eb] Heather,
_ [D] And Heather!
Heather McNamara, [A] head cheerleader.
Her [F] dad is loaded.
[Eb] He sells engagement rings.
And [D] Heather!
Heather Duke [B] runs the yearbook.
[F] No discernible personality,
[D] but her mom did pay [Eb] for implants.
[D] And Heather!
And Heather [A] Chandler.
[F] Heather!
The almighty.
[Bm] Heather!
[F] She is a mythic bitch.
_ [Db] _ [Eb] They're solid Teflon.
Never bothered.
[Db] Never harassed.
I [G] would give anything to be like that.
[Bb] [Ab] Ooh!
I'd like to be their [Eb] boyfriend.
That would be beautiful!
[Ab] If I sat at their table,
guys would [Eb] notice me!
So beautiful!
_ I'd like them to be nicer.
[Db] Ooh!
[Ab] That would be beautiful!
[C] I'd like to kidnap a Heather
and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse
and leave her tied up for the rats.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ Grow [C] up, Heather Blemius.
So [D] 87.
Maybe you should see [C] a doctor, Heather.
Yeah, Heather.
Maybe I should.
Ah! _
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] Perhaps you didn't hear [Gb] the bell over all the vomiting.
You're late for [Db] class.
Heather wasn't [Ab] feeling well.
We're helping her.
Not with that all.
Perhaps you're not.
Weeks detention.
[Bb] Um, actually, Miss Fleming,
all four of us are out on a hall pass.
Yearbook committee. _
_ I see you're all listed.
[Bbm] _ Hurry up and [Bb] get where you're going.
[B] _ This is [Bbm] an excellent forgery.
Who [Bb] are you?
Uh, Veronica [Bbm] Sawyer.
I crave [Eb] a boon.
What boon?
[B] Um, [Bbm] let me sit at your table at [Bb] lunch just once.
No [Db] talking necessary.
If people think that you guys tolerate [Db] me,
then they'll leave me alone.
Ha ha ha!
[Ebm] Before you answer, I also do report cards,
permission slips, and [Bb] absence notes.
[Fm] How about prescriptions?
[B] Shut up, Heather!
Sorry, Heather.
For a greasy little nobody,
you do have good bone structure.
[F] And a symmetrical face.
If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull,
I'd have matching halves.
That's very important.
Of course [G] you could stand to lose a few pounds.
[Gb] And you know, you know, you [Db] know,
this could be beautiful.
[Gb] Mascara, maybe some lip [Db] gloss,
and we're on our way.
[Gb] Get this girl [Db] some blush.
And Heather, I need [Gb] your brush.
[Eb] Let's make her beautiful.
Let's make her beautiful.
Let's make her [C] beautiful.
_ _ [F] _
Okay?
Okay.
_ _ _ [Bbm] Out of my way, [Eb] geek.
I don't want trouble.
[Bbm] You're gonna die in three [C] peeing.
[Bbm] Don't you dare touch me, [Cm] you getaway [Bbm] pervert.
What did I ever [Abm] do to them?
[Ebm] Who could survive this?
[Bb] I can't escape this.
[F] I think I'm dying.
Who's that [Eb] with Heather?
_ [Bb]
Whoa.
_ _ _ Heather, _ Heather, _ [Gb] Heather.
[Bb] And someone.
Heather, Heather, _ Heather.
[Ebm] And [Bb] a big Heather, Heather, _ Heather.
Veronica?
Veronica, [Gb] _ Veronica, [F] Veronica.
_ _ [A] And you know. _ _
_ [E] _ You look beautiful.
[A] You hope you dream.
_ [E] _ _ If you ask me how [B] it feels,
looking like [A] hello wheels.
[Gb] My God, it's beautiful.
Beautiful.
_ I might be beautiful.
Beautiful.
And when you're [Ab] beautiful,
_ _ it's a beautiful [Db] freaking day. _
Heather, _ _ [Gbm] _ [Db] Heather, _ Heather.
_ [B] Veronica, [A] _ _
Veronica, [Dbm] Veronica, _ [Db] Veronica. _ _
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