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