Don't Ever Let Your Children Grow Up chords by Maddie Poppe

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
C majorC                   E minorEm
That was the way, that was the way it was
      A minorAm                      FF
When you're five years old and don't have nowhere else to run
    C majorC                       E minorEm
Except into your mother's arms, where she held you so tight
      A minorAm                           FF
And you're scared of the dark so you sleep with your little night light

     C majorC                          E minorEm
When you walked up to school and everyone there was your best friend
     A minorAm                     FF
When you learned your numbers and shapes and played pretend
      C majorC                        E minorEm
You didn't mind that your hair was a mess, you were so carefree
      A minorAm                    FF
You didn't know how cold and cruel this world would one day be

Chorus:
DmDm       G+G
We were just so young
        C majorC
We should have known
  E minorEm     A minorAm
We should have known
     DmDm                G+G             C majorC
That one day we'd hate our bodies and we'd orbit around buttons on a phone
  E minorEm     A minorAm
We should have known
     DmDm                  G+G                 C majorC
That one day we'd pluck our eyebrow hairs and wonder why the cool kids stared at me
  E minorEm        A minorAm
Oh why'd it have to be
  DmDm
Our imaginations have run dry
  G+G                 C majorC
We hate ourselves and have a nightly cry
      E minorEm       A minorAm
And then we act like we're fine
   DmDm                 G+G              C majorC
It's alcohol and bombs and drugs, don't ever let your children grow up

  E minorEm     A minorAm
(Oh oh oh oh oh oh)

C majorC E minorEm

Verse 2:
     C majorC                           E minorEm
We would swing on the swings and jump off and pretend we could fly
    A minorAm                       FF
But as soon as we blinked we grew up and we're junior high
    C majorC                            E minorEm
So our dads dropped us off at the park and we stayed out 'till ten
    A minorAm                    FF
So the makeup comes out and we think we need the perfect boyfriend

Chorus:
DmDm       G+G
We were just so young
       C majorC
How didn't we know
  E minorEm    A minorAm
How didn't we know
       DmDm             G+G                     C majorC
That we'd be independent on our own and lose more friends while traveling down the road
    E minorEm    A minorAm
Oh, how didn't we know
       DmDm                G+G                   C majorC
That there's more to life than sleepovers and jocks turn out worse than the science nerds
  E minorEm          A minorAm
But somehow that all gets blurred
      DmDm
And some relationships they end real fast
  G+G                   C majorC
And though you want you might never get it back
     E minorEm       A minorAm
The doors close just like that
    DmDm                  G+G              C majorC
It's depression and it's broken love, don't ever let your children grow up

  E minorEm     A minorAm
(Oh oh oh oh oh oh)

C majorC E minorEm

(Vocals)

Outro:
DmDm       G+G
We're no longer young
        C majorC
So now that we know
  E minorEm     A minorAm
So now that we know
     DmDm                   G+G               C majorC
That this world could use some turning 'round, if only we could find some common ground
     E minorEm  A minorAm
But it's up to us
   DmDm                     G+G                C majorC
And although at times it gets so rough, you have got to let your children grow up
  E minorEm     A minorAm
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
        DmDm            G+G               C majorC
Yeah, you have got to let your children, got to let your children grow up

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