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