Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Chorus:
C majorC
I just want time in a tree
A minorAm
I need a place just for me
FF
Somewhere that I can be free
G+G Bm7Bm7
Keep the faith and just be
What you'll be
Verse 1:
C majorC
I guess rules are there to break
C majorC
But I make mistakes
C majorC
Like they were handed on a plate
FF
And I try to leave, sometimes I'm standing in the way
G+G Bm7Bm7
I'm on the edge of crying all the time 'cause I can't human right
Verse 2:
C majorC
What they say?
C majorC
I get wound up from the ground up
A minorAm
And I don't know why
A minorAm
Turn the sound up, drown the noise out
FF
Swallow up, don't cry
G+G
Got an anxious heart and a stole mate can't take pay for a heartbreak
Bm7Bm7
Did Billy Joel have self esteem
Maybe Vienna wouldn't wait for me
Chorus:
C majorC
I just want time in a tree
A minorAm
I need a place just for me
FF
Somewhere that I can be free
G+G
Keep the faith and just be
What you'll be
Verse 3:
C majorC
Do you ever feel like you could live a real life?
A minorAm
Like everybody else in the real world
You could be a real girl
FF
You could be a wizard, you could be a astronaut
You could write fiction, you could tame raptors
G+G Bm7Bm7
Most days I struggle, I get snappy
Fuck all that, I just wanna be happy
Verse 4:
C majorC
Swimming against the current, A minorAm I wrong
A minorAm
Can you show me your ?: honesty, I'm upon my ?:
I'm on it, I get it, I've got it, I wanna be ten again
FF
Just me and Sonic and nobody telling me I should be more than I am
G+G
Back when I had a plan, I...
Chorus:
C majorC
I just want time in a tree
A minorAm
I need a place just for me (for me)
FF
Somewhere that I can be free (I can be free)
G+G Bm7Bm7
Keep the faith and just be (Just be)
What you'll be
Bridge:
C majorC A minorAm
I seen things that I never should have seen
FF
Said too many things I didn't mean
G+G
Hurt myself too many times to count
Bm7Bm7
Need to let it out
C majorC A minorAm
And just ?: been likened to myself too long
FF
And dragging back myself too long
G+G
I can't relax, I'm too distracted
Bm7Bm7
I can't hack it and
C majorC
I'm needy, greedy
Love me, feed me
A minorAm
Let's be a family
FF
It will take a village to make a man of me
G+G
So why couldn't you love me
Bm7Bm7
It's all I need
Chorus:
C majorC
I just want time in a tree
A minorAm
I need a place just for me
FF
Somewhere that I can be free
G+G Bm7Bm7
Keep the faith and just be
What you'll be
Outro:
C majorC A minorAm FF G+G Bm7Bm7