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