G           D 
I know change is a bad thing 
Am                          C 
Breaks me down into a sorry sad thing 
         G          D              Am  C 
Not some iridescent grateful butterfly 

        G          D 
I'll resist with defiance 
        Am                  C 
Not the power of a mystic silence 
       G               D         Am     C 
I will fight the dizzy spiral of goodbye 
           G             D             Am   C 
And it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 
       G             D             Am   C 
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

             G             D 
Please don't say you don't love me 
      Am                C 
Never dangle any sword above me 
         G                   D            Am C 
With the kind of change that severs me in two 

        G          D 
Give me amberizing glasses 
          Am                  C 
Could you slow it down like molasses 
     G              D         Am       C 
As I salvage my old self away from you? 

           G             D             Am   C 
Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 
       G             D             Am   C 
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 
       G             D             Am   C 
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

        C 
Because I have seen insane things 
          Am 
All those grand, historic paintings 
        C                                      D 
Morning light on polished swords and burnished pride 

        Am 
Anxious smiles encased in whalebone 
          C 
Spines of steel from head to tail bone 
        Am                                C    D 
Cannons poised to blast the turning of the tide 

       G         D 
It's a sad and a strange thing 
         Am            C 
But it's time and I am changing 
     G                 D                      Am   C 
Into something good or bad, well, that's your guess 

       G             D 
I'm my own sovereign nation 
    Am                  C 
Dedicated to a transformation 
         G            D            Am      C 
Marching on with this target on my chest, Oh yes, 

           G             D             Am   C 
And it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 
           G             D             Am   C 
Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 
       Em            G             Am   C 
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 

           G             D             Am   C 
Oh, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright 
       G             D             Am   C 
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright 
       G             D             Am 
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright