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