"Words I Might Have Ate" - Green Day
From the album "Kerplunk" (1991)


[Intro]
      x4

[Verse 1]
         
Now it seems I

             
 can't keep my

          
 mind off of y

ou
             
My brain drift

             
s back to bett

              
er days we've 

  
been through
             
Like sitting o

             
n blacktop of 

        
the school gro

unds
             
The love I bit

             
ched about I f

     
inally found


[Chorus]
            
But now it's g

             
one and I take

     
 the blame
             
So there's not

             
hing I can do 

              
but take the p

     
ain... why?

      x2


[Verse 2]
         
Now I dwell on

             
 what you remi

    
nd me of
             
A sweet young 

             
girl who sacri

       
ficed her love
             
As for me, I a

             
m blind withou

  
t a cause
            
And now I real

             
ize what I hav

e lost


[Chorus]
             
It was somethi

             
ng real that I

         
 could've had
             
Now I play the

             
 fool whose st

              
able soul's go

        
ne bad... why?

      x4


[Bridge]
             
  Tell me, wel

             
l, the words i

            
 might have sa

id
             
  That's pumpi

             
ng pressure de

             
ep inside my h

ead
             
  Was it bad e

             
nough to be to

  
o late?
             
  Just tell me

             
 the words I m

          
ight have ate
             
The words I mi

         
ght have ate
             
The words I mi

         
ght have ate

      x4


[Chorus]
         
 But now it's 

            
gone and I tak

      
e the blame
             
So there's not

             
hing I can do 

              
but take the p

     
ain... why?
   
   
Why?
   
Why?
   
Why?  Oh...
   
Why?
   
Why?
   
Why?
   


[Outro]
      x4