Adult Girl chords by Marina

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C

Intro:

C   Dm


Verse 1:
      C
I can let go of the flower, now my power has returned
      Dm
I can look back at the past, now I see what I have learned
       C
Try my best to act my age, but the child won't behave
             Dm
She wants to scream and cry and rage, and who am I to dig her grave?

Pre-Chorus:
    Dm
The teenage years I never lived
    G
The innocence of high school kids
G#dim
Young romance and endless nights
   Am               G
Of carefree joy and pure delight


Chorus:
F
Didn't grow up in a normal world
    Fm                    C
And now I'm just an adult girl


Verse 2:
        C
Now I'm too old to die young, but at least I had some fun
         Dm
Spent my twenties on the run drеaming of suicide and love
          C
Think I'm stuck somewhеre between childhood and va-va-voom
       Dm
Always cycling in between existential dread and doom


Pre-Chorus:
Dm
Messy, numb, razors and knives
       G
Missed arteries and blacked-out nights
G#dim
Kittens, mittens, plushie toys
Am                  G
Bows and hearts and sullen boys


Chorus:
F
Robbed me of a teenage world
    Fm                C
Now I'm just an adult girl
     Fm
An adult girl


Bridge:
         C
Someone, tell me how to heal the terror livin' inside me
        Dm
I don't even know what's real, I just know I wanna be free


Pre-Chorus:
Dm
All the things I lost and loved
G
Swept them underneath the rug
G#dim
Like a child, I wait and hope
    Am               G
You might repair the things you broke


Chorus:
F
Now I understand the world
   Fm                         C
Of adult boys 'cause I'm an adult girl
F
I'm an oyster without a pearl
    Fm                              C
But that's just how it is for an adult girl
     Fm
An adult girl
Fm6   C
Adult girl