Tone: [Dm]
Intro: [Dm] [A#] [F] [C] [Dm] [A#] [F] [C]
There is [Dm]an empty space in the [A#]chair tonight
Cause he [F]don't feel [C]right
There are [Dm]stormclouds brewing at the [A#]back of his mind
As he [F]steps [C]outside
He will be [Dm]twenty in a week
But he's [A#]old for his years
He's had [F]many of those
To [C]confront his own fears
But his [Dm]father's not the man he'd like to [A#]grow up to be
And [A]his mother isn't growing old gracefully
He says [A#]times like these I don't [Dm]want to be a [C]Superstar
Cause [A#]reality [Dm]tv killed them all in [C]america
Oh the [A#]sun always [Dm]shines in a [C]magazine
[A#]Tonight can we be [Dm]free to be who we [C]really are [A]
[Dm] [A#] [F] [C]
[Dm]There is an empty space between the [A#]lines tonight
And [F]it burns so [C]bright
And the [Dm]angry silence that he [A#]throws on the floor
[F]Says he don't care [C]anymore
He had [Dm]money for the truth
But [A#]love's a lot more
And the [F]answer's is not the one he was [C]looking for
His [Dm]father's not the man he'd like to [A#]grow up to be
And his [A]mother is his mother reluctantly
He says [A#]times like these I don't [Dm]want to be a [C]Superstar
Cause [A#]reality [Dm]tv killed them all in [C]america
Oh the [A#]sun always [Dm]shines in a [C]magazine
[A#]Tonight can we be [Dm]free to be who we [C]really are [A]
He says [A#]times like these I don't [Dm]want to be a [C]Superstar
Cause [A#]reality [Dm]tv killed them all in [C]america
Oh the [A#]sun always [Dm]shines in a [C]magazine
[A#]Tonight can we be [Dm]free to be who we [C]really are