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