Tuning: G C E A (G C E A) Key: C Difficulty: Novice Key: C Tuning: Standard GCEA Intro: C F x4 Verse 1: C F Kids from my high school still ignore me C F When they see me busking in the city C F And I think they’re going somewhere C F To take horse tranquilizer and act like they’re too cool to be there
Chorus 1: G Dm C F C F And they’ll still call me when they wanna get high Verse 2: C F Those I look up to look down on me C F Or maybe it’s just my crippling anxiety? C F Because it’s been happening a lot lately C F I think it’s got something to do with you but you make me pretty happy Chorus 2: G Dm C F C F I’m just whining about the same shit as yesterday Verse 3: C F And I would sneak him into my mother’s house C F Where he would draw the things I’d talk about C F And we only ever made out C F And listened to Tigers Jaw and UV Race yeah it was pretty grouse Chorus 3: G Dm C F c F But I gave him my old phone and he moved away Verse 4: C F Now I read my text books like The Bible C F There’s something about truth that makes existence bearable C F We’re sitting around the kitchen table C F It kinda feels like family but a little more unstable Chorus 4: G F And we still have to light the stove with a lighter G F C Yeah we still have to light the stove with a lighter F C F Still have to light the stove with a lighter Bridge: C F C F It’s kinda like I almost want you to understand this like the first time you were here C F C F It’s kinda like I almost want you to understand me like the first time we were here G F And all this time it made sense to me why life was so unfair G F Because the universe don’t know and the universe don’t care G F It took years to figure out everyone else had shit on their mind G F F And the darkness that lives inside of me looks exactly like you sometimes Outro: C F C F Still have to light the stove with a lighter C F I’ll sit alone in my bedroom C F Hope they can’t hear me in the next room C F Always alone in my bedroom C F Hoping no one can hear me