85 Why I Am Not A Teenager chords by The Magnetic Fields

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC FF C majorC G+G C majorC FF
F G+G FF G+G

Verse:
     C majorC
You work like a robot
    FF
Making diddly-squat
    C majorC         G+G
This is why I am not a teenager
     C majorC
They all talk down to you
     FF
Like they know what to do
     FF         G+G
Are they trying to screw up your life
      FF         G+G
Since they already blew their own?

Chorus:
  C majorC
But when I grow up
FF
I'm going to run
C majorC      G+G
My own planetarium
C majorC
I'll make the shows
FF
All on my own
FF            G+G    FF  G+G
The world will flock to see 'em


Verse:
     C majorC
All that money they've got
      FF
They don't give you a jot
    C majorC         G+G
This is why I am not a teenager
     C majorC
When you never get paid
    FF
And you never get laid
      FF          G+G
And you're full of these stupid hormones
     FF            G+G
And just then they come out with AIDS

Chorus:
  C majorC
But when I grow up
FF
I'm going to be
C majorC          G+G
An underground film maker
C majorC
I'll have my own
FF
Backlot somewhere
FF         G+G    FF  G+G
On my own half an acre

Verse:
    C majorC
So they piss on your dreams
     FF
Then they muzzle your screams
    C majorC         G+G
This is why I am not a teenager
    C majorC
Making ice cream on trucks
   FF
Shoveling horse products
    FF         G+G
Washing dishes and making popcorn
     FF       G+G
Toilets, oh the indignity!


Outro:
C majorC
Piss on your dreams
FF
Muzzle your screams
C majorC         G+G
Why I am not a teenager
C majorC
Piss on your dreams
FF
Muzzle your screams
FF G+G FF G+G
Ahhh

C majorC
Piss on your dreams
FF
Muzzle your screams
C majorC         G+G
Why I am not a teenager
C majorC
Piss on your dreams
FF
Muzzle your screams
FF G+G FF G+G  C majorC
Ahhh