{title: Complicated}
{artist: Avril Lavigne}
{time: 4/4}
{tempo: 78}
{key: F}
{meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06}
{start_of_part: Intro}
[Dm] [F] [C](life's like this, [Dm] [F] that's the [C]way it is)
[Dm] [F] [C](life's like this, [Dm] [F] that's the [C]way it is)
{end_of_part}
{start_of_verse: Verse 1}
[F] chill out, what you yellin' for? [Dm7] lay back, it's all been done before
[F/Bb] and if you could only [Csus4]let it be [C]you will see
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_verse: Verse 2}
[F] I like you the way you are [Dm7] when we're driving in your car
[F/Bb] and you're talking to me [Csus4]one on one, but [C]you become
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_part: Pre-chorus}
[F/Bb]somebody else 'round everyone else, [Dm7]watchin' your back like you can't relax
you're [F/Bb]tryin' to be cool, you look like a fool to [C]me, tell me
{end_of_part}
{start_of_chorus: Chorus 1}
[Dm]why do you have to go and make [Bb]things so compli[F]cated? I [C]see the way you're
[Dm]acting like you're somebody [Bb]else gets me frust[F]rated, [C]life's like this, you
[Dm] and you fall and you [Bb]crawl and you break and you [F]take
what you get and you [C]turn it into
[Gm]honesty, promise me I'm never gonna find you [Bb]fake it. no, no, [F]no
{end_of_chorus}
{start_of_verse: Verse 3}
[F] you come over unannounced, [Dm7] dressed up like you're something else
[F/Bb] where you are and where it's [Csus4]at, you see, you're [C]making me
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_verse: Verse 4}
[F] laugh out when you strike a pose, [Dm7] take off all your preppy clothes
[F/Bb] you know you're not fooling [Csus4]anyone when [C]you become
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_part: Pre-chorus}
[F/Bb]somebody else 'round everyone else, [Dm7]watchin' your back like you can't relax
you're [F/Bb]tryin' to be cool, you look like a fool to [C]me, tell me
{end_of_part}
{chorus: Chorus 2}
{start_of_part: Link}
[F] no, no, [Dm7]no, no, no [F/Bb]no, no, no, [C]no
{end_of_part}
{start_of_verse: Verse 1}
[F] chill out, what you yellin' for? [Dm7] lay back, it's all been done before
[F/Bb] and if you could only [Csus4]let it be [C]you will see
{end_of_verse}
{start_of_part: Pre-chorus}
[F/Bb]somebody else 'round everyone else, [Dm7]watchin' your back like you can't relax
you're [F/Bb]tryin' to be cool, you look like a fool to [C]me, tell me
{end_of_part}
{chorus: Chorus 3}
{chorus: Chorus 4}