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