Verse 1 
               G          C             G         C 
You would have kept those words on your tongue, 
           G         C             G         C 
If you had known the hurt they had done. 
           G         C                 G          C 
While your fists stay by, right by your side, 
                G         C      G      C 
Your words they bruise me deep inside. 
 
Chorus 
                C          D          G      C 
I'd rather have sticks and stones and broken bones 
         C         D      Em 
than the words you say to me, 
             C       D        G         C 
Cause I know bruises heal and cuts will seal 
         Em             D         G 
but your words beat the life from me. 
 
Verse 2 (same chords as Verse 1) 
Sometimes your words are thick as lead, 
You swing them strong upside my head. 
But what hasn't k*lled has made me strong, 
So i'll take my scars and move along. 
 
Chorus 
 
Bridge: 
D              G               C 
Goodbye is the best way that I know, 
   D           G                C 
To forgive and still be letting go. 
 
Chorus