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