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