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