Chords for Goo Goo Dolls — Acoustic #3 [Niagara Falls 4.12.14]

_ _ [A] I love you, Brock.
[E] _ _ _ [D] Well, you got a high voice for a big [Bb] strapping fella like you.
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_ [N] I think they call it _ hypogonadism.
_ _ But you really can't tell by that beard you got going.
You know, I [A] heard somebody, you know how everybody's growing [N] those big lumberjack beards now?
I heard this woman who was talking about it on the radio and she called it the push-up bra of masculinity. _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ I know, [N] I know, I know, buddy, you're good.
Don't worry about it. _ _ _
You look like a hockey player, so I'm ready to get fucked right here.
I'm just gonna jump up on the stage, pull my shirt over my head and just, boom. _
_ [Bb] _ But I respect that.
[A] We don't gotta get into this.
I got a microphone.
[Gm] _ _ I [Ab] appreciate you, man.
[D] _ [A] _ No shit, [D] man, no shit.
Yeah, but, I'm enjoying it.
[N] Stand up. _
Come on, stand up.
_ _ You're the sky-high, the way most men are strong. _ _ _
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You get up. _ _ _ _
You're the way most men are.
_ This gentleman here, too.
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_ _ _ _ That's [N] really cool, man.
I appreciate that.
_ Anything.
[Gb] Anything.
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[D] My mom was [G] a brilliant woman. _
[Cm] _ [E] _ _ She taught us how to read and write and paint and [A] draw before we went to school.
And she also [D] taught me how to have a [N] filthy_
I _ _ [Eb] _
swear to God, she would do [Db] something, like she'd smack her thumb on something.
When my sisters are in the audience, they'll tell you this is the truth.
And she would say, and I remember [Bb] exactly, boom, she smacks her thumb.
Son of a bitch, god damn, motherfucking bitch.
Jesus Christ.
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_ That's my mom. _
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But _ [A] like a lot of [N] brilliant people in her life,
she didn't get the chance to do all the things that she dreamed about doing.
And I was thinking [Eb] about her life,
and it was really hard for her at the end of her [Gbm] life.
And she tried [A] _ _
[Bb] with every ounce of herself [A] to take care of us.
And [Db] sometimes she fell short.
And I remember being a kid and hating her because she [A] said no.
_ [Ab] And now that [Db] I'm grown up, I understand that nobody's parents wants to say no to them.
And [N] she gave us everything that she could,
and it took me a long time to actually be able to just say, I love you.
And that's why I wrote this song.
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_ Your voice was a solid feeling to hide in here. _
Your mother loves your father, cause she's got nowhere to [D] go.
And she [G] wonders where these dreams go, cause the world got in her way.
[E] What's [A] the point in [G] never trying?
Cause she can cheat you.
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_ If you step against you, you'll realize it.
And you'll try so hard to _ drive through it.
And you know I'll see right through you.
Cause the world gets in your way.
What's the point in all this screaming?
You're just a kid. _
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