Chords with lyrics
Capo 8 (she uses 7!)
[Verse]
G+G
Cadd9Cadd9
E minorEm
Cadd9Cadd9
D MajorD
[Chorus]
E minorEm
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD (x2)
Cadd9Cadd9
C minorCm
[Bridge]
G+G
Cadd9Cadd9
E minorEm
D MajorD (x2)
Cadd9Cadd9
D MajorD
Cadd9Cadd9
D MajorD
(She used a capo on the 7th fret instead of the 8th!)
[Verse]
G+G
I can see you standing all alone
Cadd9Cadd9
At a party you don’t know no one
And it smells of beer and everybody here
E minorEm
Is from the city
You never liked them said ‘their boots were far to big’
Cadd9Cadd9
When you were with me, said my darling
D MajorD
‘Promise here outside the bathroom’
[Verse]
G+G
‘You will never become one of them’
Cadd9Cadd9
Obnoxious smoking high end cigarettes
Name dropping shakespeare off the heads.
E minorEm
Your words washed over me mouthwash mixed with arrogance
Cadd9Cadd9
D MajorD
Cadd9Cadd9
D MajorD
A augmentedA little boy who held a drink, and thought that made him qualified to tell me, I embarrass him
[Chorus]
E minorEm
Now the room is blasting house music,
C majorC
I feel like I might lose it
G+G
D MajorD
Everybody here is killing time
E minorEm
Pour more in my cup prove it
C majorC
I’m just as much grown up as you,
G+G
D MajorD
I’ll dance til I forget the reasons why
Cadd9Cadd9
We even turned up in the first place
C minorCm
Why I am with you in the first place
[Verse]
G+G
I bet somebody turns the speakers up
Cadd9Cadd9
Blasting some old green day song
And you will say, that ‘they were way better a couple
E minorEm
Years ago’ and heads will nod as if your word is law the teenage
Cadd9Cadd9
D MajorD
Cadd9Cadd9
Music connoisseur self assured I bet from all your years of private school
D MajorD
Fresh faced, political
[Chorus]
E minorEm
Now the room is blasting house music
C majorC
I feel like I might lose it
G+G
D MajorD
Everybody here is killing time
E minorEm
Pretending to be rich and famous
C majorC
Really we’re all lost and aimless
G+G
D MajorD
Searching for the best that we can find
Cadd9Cadd9
And then you’ll try and pull me down a peg
C minorCm
And I will wonder why I’m here again
[Bridge]
G+G
Cadd9Cadd9
Promising we wont be like our parents
E minorEm
D MajorD
Honestly I’m past the point of caring
G+G
Cadd9Cadd9
Why all my views are fully formed or rounded
E minorEm
When it comes down to it you’re just as small town
D MajorD
Little fish as me don’t you see your crown
Is made of books
Cadd9Cadd9
That you brag about when really
D MajorD
Cadd9Cadd9
Have you even looked past the Wikipedia page
D MajorD
Is this your grown up phase?
[Chorus]
E minorEm
Now the room is blasting house music,
C majorC
I feel like I might lose it
G+G
D MajorD
Everybody here is killing time
E minorEm
Pour more in my cup prove it
C majorC
I’m just as much grown up as you,
G+G
D MajorD
I’ll dance til I forget the reasons why
Cadd9Cadd9
We even turned up in the first place
C minorCm
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