To Be Eighteen chords by Katie Gregson-Macleod

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: E

♫ Intro:

B C#m B C#m x2



♫ Verse 1:
        B       C#m
Lean in closer
I want to get
                      B       C#m
A better smell of her Number 5
       B    C#m
It's a womanly scent
     B      F#            B   C#m   B  C#m
I am just a child in your arms
          B       C#m
Play them closer, please
        B                   C#m
All the songs you wrote for her
               B       C#m
While you were holding me
         B            C#m
Did your fingers ever stop?
         B            C#m         B   C#m
Did your minds know a peace in my arms?

♫ Chorus:
E
Was it just too much for you?
           G#m     E
Was it not enough?
             G#m
Naked, lying next to you
          B      C#m
While you begged them to please
E
Take all their clothes off
          C#m     E
Oh, to be eighteen

♫ Verse 2:
              B    C#m
Don't take me home again
       B               C#m
We can age inside your car
         B          C#m
'Til the world just ends
        B            C#m          B      C#m
Tell me it was never love, it was all pretend
         B    C#m
And I'll stay

♫ Chorus:
E
Was it just too much for you?
           G#m     E
Was it not enough?
             G#m
Naked, lying next to you
          B      C#m
While you begged them to please
E
Take all their clothes off
                 G#m      E
What else was it gonna do?
                  C#m   E
You were made for love

♫ Outro:
                   G#m         E
Pretending I don't need it too
                     C#m
So you don't give me up
          E
Oh, to be eighteen
          C#m
Oh, to be eighteen
          E
Oh, to be eighteen