The Cost Of Growing Up chords by Max McNown

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: F

Intro:

C   Am7  F


Verse 1:
     C
Ain't it interesting
C
How the smallest things stack up
     Am7                 F
Like the Northern Cascade mountains in the sky
       C
And all that suffering
             G /B  Am7
Residing in my mind, it almost killed me
      F
The way it left me

Pre-Chorus:
   C
Seven months a man I hated
C
Cheated on, broken, betrayed and
G /B      Am7
All those anxious nights spent wasted
Am7
Beating on the face I'm blaming
     F
But I survived and now I look back
F
At where I've been
F
And I know that


Chorus:
G
Ooh
  F
I'm changing
       C
I think I'll make it
       G
Signs of life showing again
G
And I know
G
Ooh
     F
I'll keep changing
         Am      G    F
'Cause I've seen trees grow after fire
    Dm    C    F
Crying rivers make a bluff
F
And you can't love without the loss
                 C
And that's the cost of growing up
G   F   C   G
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
G   F   C   G
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh


Verse 2:
G     C
Ain't it interesting
C
That diamonds come from coal
        Am                    F
And steel gets sharper the more time spent in the flame
        C
And there's consistency
C
Between heartbreak and ashes
C
Scraped knees and taxes
Am                F
One step back for every two you gain
F
And I know that


Chorus:
G
Ooh
  F
I'm changing
       C
I think I'll make it
       G
Signs of life showing again
G
And I know
G
Ooh
     F
I'll keep changing
         Am      G    F
'Cause I've seen trees grow after fire
    Dm    C    F
Crying rivers make a bluff
F
And you can't love without the loss
                 C
And that's the cost of growing up
G   F   C   G
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
G   F   C   G
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh


Pre-Chorus:
   C
Seven months a man I hated
C
Cheated on, broken, betrayed and
G      Am
All those anxious nights spent wasted
Am
Beating on the face I'm blaming
     F
But I survived, and now I see how far I've come and where I've been
F
And I know that


Chorus:
G
Ooh
  F
I'm changing
       C
I think I'll make it
       G
Signs of life showing again
G
And I know
G
Ooh
     F
I'll keep changing
         Am      G    F
'Cause I've seen trees grow after fire
    Dm    C    F
Crying rivers make a bluff
F
And you can't love without the loss
                 C
And that's the cost of growing up


Outro:
        Dm     C     F
Yeah, you can't love without the loss
N.F .                C
Guess that's the cost of growing up