Verse B E A
If you're wondering how we landed here
B E A
You were watching the waves and drinking beer
B E C#m
You don't even remember standing up
F#m
Truly, I don't either
[Verse 2]
B E A
At some point you waded to your waist
B E A
As you slipped further out the stakes were raised
B E C#m
Finally you were surrounded, and for what?
F#m
B water darker and deeper
[Chorus 1]
A B
In 1997 I became myself
E A
And 20 minutes later I began to melt
A B
The cycle I get used to in the course of time
E A
The shifting definitions that comprise a life
A B E
The people I become and the people I don't recognize
[Verse 3]
B E A
If you're wondering who arranged the mess
B E A
Some exceptions were made to grant, I guess
B E C#m
While we all let the peak of the parade
F#m
The underbelly went lethal
[Chorus 2]
A B
In 2007 tried to build a bridge
E A
Between how I was living and how I could live
A B
I tricked myself into thinking I'd done enough
E A
Once I got across I didn't blow it up
A B E
Yeah, I closed some lanes, all it really takes is one
[Bridge]
F#m G#m A
Opening to tear apart all your works
E F#m G#m A
So fine you are, delicate un-achieve all your half-philosophy
E F#m G#m A
Style points, blind belief a whirling perpetuity
E F#m G#m A
The ocean warm that knows you did the same before
[Chorus 3]
A B
So in 2017 we did away with facts
E A
All negotiation with a battle axe
A B
The gruesome ideology is center shame
E A
American identity was laid to waste
A
We're backlit and exposed
B C#m E F#m
Sugar stripped and it's made clean
[Outro]
A
The people I become
B E
The people I can't replicate