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