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