Lined up, classified,
D#
I’m sitting here in this room, a patient biding his time
F
Seems like my absence here would have made no
D#
Difference
F
Oh! Yes, yes, I can wait
D#
If not tonight I will come on another day
F
I put my minor life in your major
D#
Hands, ’cause I’m a
Cm G#
Man from the back of the line, know for
D#5 A#
Sure I’m worth nothing, I’m a waste of your time,
Cm G# A#
Don’t bother yourself looking into my eyes, ’cause I’m a
Cm D#5
Man from the back of the line
G# A#
Do my best to stay unnoticed since I’m always so shy
Cm G# A#
I have no friends as I’m scared to go out and try to find
F
People tend to forget my name but that’s alright!
D#
I excuse them as I know for many people it might
F D#
Be inconceivably hard to remember such a rare name as
John
F
It’s so fancy nowadays to stand aside the crowd
D#
Put a quote in every answer, claim you never back down
F
But I’m a simple guy
D#
And I’m afraid I can’t afford that much
Cm G#
Man from the back of the line, know for
D#5 A#
Sure I’m worth nothing, I’m a waste of your time,
Cm G# A#
Don’t bother yourself looking into my eyes, ’cause I’m a
Cm D#5
Man from the back of the line
G# A#
Do my best to stay unnoticed since I’m always so shy
Cm G# A#
I have no friends as I’m scared to go out and try to find
Cm G#
Why does everything tend to end
D#5 A#
So fast, before I even know it began
Cm G#
Feel like an old blind cat that everyone is sorry for
A#
But pass by
Cm G#
I need a bit of understanding, ain’t too much I’m longing for
D#5 A#
If I’d be treated like an equal I could probably do more
Cm
Because to you I look stupid
G# A# G#
But I was never let to prove otherwise,
A#
Otherwise
G#
Man from the back of the line, know for
D#5 A#
Sure I’m worth nothing, I’m a waste of your time,
Cm G# A#
Don’t bother yourself looking into my eyes, ’cause I’m a
Cm D#5
Man from the back of the line
G# A#
Do my best to stay unnoticed since I’m always so shy
Cm G# A# D#
I have no friends as I’m scared to go out and try to find
