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