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