Mistakes Of My Youth chords by EELS

Eels - Mistakes Of My Youth

From the album The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett


Intro:
C G/B G D G
G D/F# C D
G D/F# D C D

G    D/F#     C
 In the waning days ahead
 D            G
I gotta look back down the road
 D/F#      D    C   D
I know that it's not too late
G    D/F#        C
 All the stupid things I've said
  D           G
And people I've hurt in my time
    D/F#      D   C   D
Well I hope that it's not my fate

C     D   Bm   C
 To keep defeating my own self
C      D   B    Em
 And keep repeating yesterday
C    G/B  G    D
 I can't keep defeating myself
C    G/B  G   D/A  C
 I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth

G    D/F#      C
 In the dark of night I might
  D          G
Be able to make myself think
     D/F#  D    C   D
That I'm still a younger man
G       D/F#        C
 But when the light of day shines down
    D          G
There's no way to get around it
   D/F#  D    C   D
I am not the younger man

C     D   Bm   C
 I keep defeating my own self
C      D   B B/D# Em
 And keep repeating yesterday
C    G/B  G    D
 I can't keep defeating myself
C    G/B  G   D/A  C
 I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth

C  C/D  C/E D
 The choice is mine for making
Bm     C
 A better road ahead
C   C/D C/E D
 The road that I've been taking
Bm   Bm/F#   Em
 Headed for a dead-end
C     G/B   G    D/A  C/G
 But it's not too late to turn around

G D/F# C D
G D/F# D C D

G    D/F#     C
 In the final moments I
D            G
Hope that I know that I tried
  D/F#  D   C   D
To do the best I could

C     D   Bm   C
 To stop defeating my own self
C      D   B B/D Em Em/D
 And stop repeating yesterday
C    G/B  G    D
 I can't keep defeating myself
C    G/B  G   D/A  C
 I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth

G D/F# C D   )