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