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