To Be A Man - Dax | Guitar Chords

[Chorus (1)]
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            B
I can't hide myself
          F#
I don't expect you to understand
           G#m
I just hope   I can explain
              E
What it's like to be a man
           B
It's a lonely road
               F#
And they don't care about what you know
     G#m
It's not about how you feel
                    E
But what you provide inside that home

[Verse 1]
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     B                                          F#
Yeah, I know this life can really beat you down,  uh
                                            G#m
You wanna scream but you won't make a sound,   uh
Got so much weight that you've been holdin'
          E
But won't show any emotion, as a man, that goes unspoken
       B
That we can't cry when life gets hard
  F#
Unconditional love for women, children and dogs
G#m
   We know that we just have to play our parts
            E
And don't nobody give a damn about our broken hearts, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]
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B
 As a man, we gotta pave our way
F#
  Our only function is to work and slave
G#m
   There's no respect for you if you ain't paid
            E
You're disregarded as a human and you can't complain
           B
And if you ever make it up and actually reach that place
           F#
And find a woman that you love and give her your last name
                G#m
You'll feel the things that you provide is only why she stays
             E
And when you try to explain, you'll say
            B
I can't hide myself

[Chorus (2)]
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          F#
I don't expect you to understand
           G#m
I just hope   I can explain
              E
What it's like to be a man
           B
It's a lonely road
               F#
And they don't care about what you know
     G#m
It's not about how you feel
                    E
But what you provide inside that home

[Verse 2]
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              B
Don't give up, keep fightin'
                           F#
As a man, our son is our horizon
                                                   G#m
And our fathers' actions play a role and we end up like him
So they can't let us see them hurt
               E
'Cause we'll embody what we do and start a generational curse
              B
No wonder most men are so depressed
All the things that they can't express
               F#
They go to war,  get thrown on the shelf
Then go back to war with they mental health
                  G#m
Then grab that bottle and ask for help
Try to pull themselves out of hell
                   E
Then fall back down and then realize
That they gon' have to do it themselves

[Bridge]
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            E
It's the circle of life, as a man, you provide
               F#
They don't know  what you're worth 'til the day that you die
               E
And that's when they start cryin'
                     F#
Then move on to a man  to confide in
That's why we feel
             B
We can't hide ourselves

[Chorus (3)]
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           F#
We don't expect you to understand
            G#m
We just hope   we can explain
              E
What it's like to be a man
           B
It's a lonely road
              F#
And you don't care about what we know
     G#m
It's not about how we feel
                   E
But what we provide inside that home

[Fade-Out]
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B     F#
 That home
     G#m
It's not about how we feel
                   E
But what we provide inside that home
B | F# | G#m | E