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