Verse
B G#m D#m
It doesn't matter if I don't get to keep you
B G#m D#m
It doesn't matter if I live or die
B G#m D#m
It doesn't matter that your boyfriend left you
C#m F# E
And that summer only lasted one day
[Verse 2]
B G#m D#m
I'm in the mirror with the Rickenbacker twelve string
B G#m D#m
My good friend who can really understand
B G#m D#m
But everyone's got relationship problems
C#m F# E
I would surely go wrong with you, but why wouldn't I?
[Verse 3]
B G#m D#m
It doesn't matter if I don't get to keep you
B G#m D#m
It doesn't matter if I live or die
B G#m D#m
I'm in the mirror with my best friend twelve string
C#m F# E
The day that you will love me, will never arrive
[Chorus]
G#m F#
We were almost it
C#m E
We almost went somewhere
G#m F# C#m
Charm of the tear-down left behind
G#m F#
Not to be who I am
C#m E
Takes a lot of work this time
G#m F# C#m
To lock everything back up inside
[Verse 4]
B G#m D#m
Doesn't matter if I don't get to keep you
B G#m D#m
Doesn't matter if I live or die
B G#m D#m
I'm in the mirror with my best friend's twelve string
C#m
Trying to worship sixties California
F# E
In our not so contemporary ways
[Verse 5]
B G#m D#m
Everybody's got their heart in a wheelchair
B G#m D#m
And now I finally come up for air
B G#m D#m
The lazy eye of the sun comes up slowly
C#m F# E
And a million candle-lit cities disappear
[Verse 6]
B G#m D#m
Doesn't matter if I don't get to keep you
B G#m D#m
It doesn't matter if I live or die
B G#m D#m
Doesn't matter that your boyfriend left you
Aaaahh, Aaaah
C#m F# E B
But it doesn't matter that I love your smile