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