Boxes (Acoustic)

Went to the wrong school

Wearin' the wrong shoes

They told me that I should sit

Down and just bite my tongue

'Cause if you're lucky

You'll get to university

Say three Hail Mary's

And everything bad will be gone

But I'm so tired of standin' still

And I'm not buyin' what you're tryin' to sell

So don't wake me up

If you're only gonna tell me to give it up

Then say everything I do is never enough

'Cause you're lyin' through your teeth

We don't fit into your boxes

We're all different underneath

Don't wake me up

Don't wake me up

When I got my first guitar

My father told me

"Son, four chords is all you need to show

People just who you are"

So I played to strangers

Down by the backstreets

And every time they caught me dreamin', I'd say

Don't wake me up

If you're only gonna tell me to give it up

Then say everything I do is never enough

'Cause you're lyin' through your teeth

We don't fit into your boxes

We're all different underneath

Don't wake me up

Oh, don't wake me up

But I'm so tired of standin' still

And I'm not buyin' what you're tryin' to sell

So don't wake me up

Don't wake me up

And, oh, don't wake me up

If you're only gonna tell me to give it up

Then say everything I do is never enough

'Cause you're lyin' through your teeth

We don't fit into your boxes

We're all different underneath

Don't wake me up

Don't wake me up

Don't wake me up

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Don't wake me up