Olivia Rodrigo – ballad of a homeschooled girl

Performed by
Olivia Rodrigo
Release Year
2023
Album
Guts
Suggested Capo
Fret 1

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Olivia Rodrigo – ballad of a homeschooled girl
Key: Db Major BPM: ♩ = 121 Time: 4/4
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 cat         got my tongue, and i don’t think i get along  with anyone
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 blood         running cold,       i’m on the outside of the greatest in-  side  joke

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and i hate        all my clothes      feels like my
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 skin doesn’t fit right over my bones
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so i guess         i should go          the party’s
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 done and i’m no fun i know i know i know  i know

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   i broke a glass, i tripped and fell i told secrets i shouldn’t
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 tell, i stumbled over all my words, i made it weird, i made it
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 worse each time i step outside,  it’s social sui-   cide

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             it’s social suicide, wanna curl up and die it’s social suicide

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ah-ahh,          ah-ahh,          ah-ahh,          ah-ahh

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i laughed at the wrong time sat with the wrong guy
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 searching how to start a conversation on a website
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 talked to this hot guy, swore i was his type
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 guess that he was making out with boys like the whole night

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   everything i do is tragic,  every guy i like is gay
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   the morning after i panic   oh god what did i say

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   i broke a glass, i tripped and fell i told secrets i shouldn’t
|Ab               Fm         |Cm               Db              |
 tell, i stumbled over all my words, i made it weird, i made it
|Ab         Fm    |Cm      Db  |Ab     Fm    |Cm   Db    |
 worse each time i step outside,  it’s social sui-   cide

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             it’s social suicide, wanna curl up and die it’s social suicide
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 yeah, when I’m alone i’m fine,  but don’t let me out at
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 night it’s social suicide,  it’s social suicide

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ah-ahh,          ah-ahh,          ah-ahh,          ah-ahh
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ah-ahh,          ah-ahh,          ah-ahh,          ah-ahh

//BPM changes from ♩ = 121 to ♩ = 86//

|Ab          Fm                |Cm          Db               |
   i broke a glass, tripped and fell told secrets i shouldn’t
|Ab            Fm         |Cm            Db              |
 tell stumbled over all my words made it weird, i made it
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 worse each day that I’m alive,  it’s social sui-   cide

//BPM changes from ♩ = 86 to ♩ = 121//

|Ab  Fm   |Cm     Db       |Ab               Fm    |Cm              Db     |
             it’s social suicide, wanna curl up and die it’s social suicide
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   it’s social suicide   don’t let me out at
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 nite, i’m shocked i’m still alive   it’s social sui-

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 cide
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   thought your mom was your wife   called you the wrong name twice
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   can’t think of a third line,  la-la-la-la-la-la
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   la-la-la-la-la-la,  la-la-la-la-la-la,  la-la-la-la-la-la