This Is Why

Paramore

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  S1:
  If you have an opinion 

  Maybe you should shove it 

  Or maybe you could scream it 

  Might be best to keep it
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  B1:
  To yourself (To yourself) 

  To yourself (To yourself)
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  R1:
  This is why I don't leave the house 

  You say the coast is clear but you won't catch me out 

  Oh, why? 

  This is why
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  S2:
  Better have conviction 

  'Cause we want crimes of passion 

  Survival of the fittest 

  You're either with us or you can keep it
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  B2:
  To yourself (To yourself) 

  To yourself  

  To yourself, yourself, yourself 

  To yourself (To yourself)
• E5E5H5C5A5C5D5D5
  R1:
  This is why I don't leave the house 

  You say the coast is clear but you won't catch me out 

  Oh, why? 

  This is why
• E5E5H5C5A5C5D5D5
  R1:
  This is why I don't leave the house 

  You say the coast is clear but you won't catch me out 

  Oh, why? 

  This is why
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  B3:
  One step beyond your door 

  It might as well have been a free fall 

  One step beyond your door 

  Falling down an endless hall 

  One step beyond your door 

  Might as well have been a free fall 

  One step beyond your door 

  And I'm floating like a cannonball
• E5E5H5C5A5D5D5C5
  R1:
  This is why I don't leave the house 

  You say the coast is clear but you won't catch me out 

  Oh, why? 

  This is why
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  R2:
  This is why I don't leave the house 

  You say the coast is clear but, oh no, you won't catch me out 

  Oh, why? 

  This is why