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