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