Verse
G C#
Well when she got the grade
G
She took her first real breath
D G
As a person without a single damn care left
C#
Put a note in her phone
G
In double bold and red:
A D G
“Everything that I need is somewhere straight ahead”
C# D G
Oh, it’s somewhere straight ahead
C# D
G
Soon when the fuse was lit
C# G
She tied a few loose ends
D
Certain people she loved
G
And just a few fake friеnds
C# G
On the morning she left, shе left a text on read
Em Am D G
“Everybody I need is somewhere straight ahead
C# D
[Chorus]
G C#
'Cause I don’t wanna live for the summer
A G
I just wanna live where I wanna
G C#
I don’t see whatever you’re seeing
G
I just think I’m better off leaving
G C#
I don’t wanna live for the summer
Am D
I just wanna live where I wanna
G C#
I don’t see whatever you’re seeing
Am G N.C.
I just think I’m better off leaving”
[Verse 2]
G C# G
Two years to the day, she had it all worked out
D G
Wrote a couple of novels people wrote about
C# G
Captivated the strangers at the bars uptown
Em Am D G
Thinking “nobody here could ever slow me down
C# D G
Nah, they couldn’t slow me down”
C# D
G
And when the thought occurred
C#
She bought the house she earned
G D
She started looking into venues for July the third
G C#
She wants a west coast wedding with a mind like hers
G Em Am
Before she puts a reminder in her phone
D G
To remind her that she knows
Em Am
“I can do it on my own
D
I can do it 'cause
[Chorus]
G C#
I don’t wanna live for the summer
Am G
I just wanna live where I wanna
G C#
I don’t see whatever you’re seeing
Am G
I just think I’m better off leaving
G C#
I don’t wanna live for the summer
Am D
I just wanna live where I wanna
G C#
I don’t see whatever you’re seeing
Am G
I just think I’m better off leaving”
[Bridge]
G C# Am G D
G C# Am G
G C# Am
She’s off the ground
G
She won’t look down
C# Am
She made a vow
G
Don’t stop her now
C# Am
The things that she wills
D G
Become things that she builds
C# Am
So don’t stop her now
D
[Verse 3]
G C# Gm
When she saw the movie all about her life
D G
Well she noticed some things they didn’t get quite right
C#
Cause they added mistakes and cut her best damn nights
Am A D
Everybody who knew it sent a goddamn text
G C#
“Did you tell them to do it so it makes more sense?”
Am
She was staring straight ahead
A
Took her time and said:
[Chorus]
G C#
“I don’t wanna live for the summer
Am G D
I just wanna live where I wanna
G C#
I don’t see whatever you’re seeing
Am G
I just think I’m better off leaving
G C#
I don’t wanna live for the summer
Am D
I just wanna live where I wanna
G C#
I don’t see whatever you’re seeing
Am D
I just think I’m better off leaving”