(Note: not sure if 100% accurate. This is just how I like to play it.)


[Verse]

             
Bite your face

              
 to spite your

     
 nose
             
17 and a half 

       
years old
             
I'm worrying a

        
bout my brothe

r finding out
             
Where's the fu

              
n in doing wha

         
t you're told?

        
I said "No!
            
Oh give it a r

       
est, I could p

ersuade you
             
I'm not your t

              
ypical, stoned

      
 18 year old
           
Give me a nigh

t I'll make yo

u.
              
I know you're 

             
looking for sa

              
lvation in the

 
 secular age,
              
But girl I'm n


ot your saviou

r"
             
Wrestle to the

  
 ground
    
God help me no

w


[Chorus]

B, F#, E (in between the F# and E, you can slide from the fourth fret to 
the sixth, on the D-string, like they do in the song)- repeat throughout 

             
Cause they're 

            
just girls bre

     
aking hearts
             
Eyes bright, u

            
ptight, just g

     
irls
             
But she can't 

            
be what you ne

     
ed if she's 17
             
They're just g

                 
irls
             
They're just g

                 
irls


[Verse]

             
A pair of froz

            
en hands to ho

ld,
             
Oh she's so so

              
uthern so she 

          
feels the cold

,
              
One moment I w

             
as tearing off

      
 your blouse,
           
Now you're liv

ing in my hous

e.
             
What happened 

              
to just messin

  
g around?

             
I said "Yo, I 

            
think I better

     
 go; I can't t

ake you.
             
You just sit a

              
nd get stoned 

            
with 30 year o

             
lds and you th

ink you've mad

e it.
             
Well, shouldn'

              
t you be fucki

            
ng with somebo

              
dy your age in

          
stead of makin

g changes?"
             
Wrestle to the

  
 ground

God help me no

w

                  
[Chorus]

             
Cause they're 

            
just girls bre

     
aking hearts
             
Eyes bright, u

            
ptight, just g

     
irls
             
But she can't 

            
be what you ne

     
ed if she's 17
             
They're just g

                 
irls
             
They're just g

                 
irls


[Verse]

     (    
I told her fro

              
m the start
     (    
Destined to be

              
 hard
     (    
I told her fro

            
m the start
             
I'll break you

  
r heart
      (   
Destined to be

             
 hard
           
Break your hea

  
rt

             
I said "Yo, I 

            
think you'd be

         
tter go; I can

't take you.
              
I know you're 

             
looking for sa

              
lvation in the

 
 secular age,
             
But girl I'm n

ot your saviou

r.
             
Well, shouldn'

              
t you be fucki

            
ng with somebo

              
dy your age in

          
stead of makin

g changes?"
             
Wrestle to the

  
 ground
     
God help me no

w


[Chorus]

(Chorus progression as before: B, F#, E, with the slide)

             
Cause they're 

            
just girls bre

     
aking hearts
             
Eyes bright, u

            
ptight, just g

     
irls
             
But she can't 

            
be what you ne

     
ed if she's 17
             
They're just g

                 
irls
             
They're just g

                 
irls

             
Cause they're 

            
just girls bre

     
aking hearts
             
Eyes bright, u

            
ptight, just g

     
irls
             
But she can't 

            
be what you ne

     
ed if she's 17
             
They're just g

                 
irls
             
They're just g

                 
irls

             
Cause they're 

                 
just girls...
             
Just girls, th

            
ey're just gir

     
ls...