Green Day
Nice Guys Finish Last
Nimrod
1997 Reprise Records
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com

Key: E

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Chords used:
 -   022100
 -   x24442
 -   x02220
 -  244322


[Intro]

        x4
          


[Verse 1]

Nice guys fini

sh last

You're running out of gas
     
Your sympathy 

will get 
             
you left behin

  
d

Sometimes you'

re at your bes

t 

when you feel the worst
       
Do you feel wa

shed up
              
like piss goin

           
g down the dra

in


[Bridge]

Pressure cooke

r pick my 
          
brain and tell

 me I'm insane
             
I'm so fucking

              
 happy I could

 
 cry

Every joke can

 have its trut

h 
    
but now the jo

ke's on you
  
I never knew y

ou were 
             
such a funny g

uy


[Chorus]
             
Oh, nice guys 

       
finish last
             
when you are t

      
he outcast
             
Don't pat your

            
self on the ba

ck
              
you might brea

        
k your spine


[Verse 2]
 
  Living on co

mmand

You're shaking lots of hands

Kissing up and

 bleeding all 
          
your trust

Taking what yo

u need

Bite the hand that feeds
    
You lose your 

memory 
              
and you got no

 
 shame


[Bridge]

Pressure cooke

r pick my 
          
brain and tell

 me I'm insane
             
I'm so fucking

              
 happy I could

 
 cry

Every joke can

 have its trut

h 
    
but now the jo

ke's on you
  
I never knew y

ou were 
             
such a funny g

uy


[Chorus]
             
Oh, nice guys 

       
finish last
             
when you are t

      
he outcast
             
Don't pat your

            
self on the ba

ck
              
you might brea

        
k your spine

             
Oh, nice guys 

       
finish last
             
when you are t

      
he outcast
             
Don't pat your

            
self on the ba

ck
              
you might brea

        
k your spine


[Interlude]

        x3
            


[Chorus]
             
Oh, nice guys 

       
finish last
             
when you are t

      
he outcast
             
Don't pat your

            
self on the ba

ck
              
you might brea

        
k your spine

             
Oh, nice guys 

       
finish last
             
when you are t

      
he outcast
             
Don't pat your

            
self on the ba

ck
              
you might brea

        
k your spine

[Ending]
           N.C.