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 Am
You don't even remember standing up
Dm
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 Am
Finally you were surrounded, and for what?
Dm
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 Am
While we all let the peak of the parade
Dm
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]
Dm Em F
Opening to tear apart all your works
C Dm Em F
So fine you are, delicate un-achieve all your half-philosophy
C Dm Em F
Style points, blind belief a whirling perpetuity
C Dm Em 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 Am C Dm
Sugar stripped and it's made clean
[Outro]
F
The people I become
G C
The people I can't replicate