Tom: D
G A D Bm or B Em Em F#m
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[Verse 1]
A D G
If you're wondering how we landed here
A D G
You were watching the waves and drinking beer
A D Bm
You don't even remember standing up
Em
Truly, I don't either
[Verse 2]
A D G
At some point you waded to your waist
A D G
As you slipped further out the stakes were raised
A D Bm
Finally you were surrounded, and for what?
Em
A water darker and deeper
[Chorus 1]
G A
In 1997 I became myself
D G
And 20 minutes later I began to melt
G A
The cycle I get used to in the course of time
D G
The shifting definitions that comprise a life
G A D
The people I become and the people I don't recognize
[Verse 3]
A D G
If you're wondering who arranged the mess
A D G
Some exceptions were made to grant, I guess
A D Bm
While we all let the peak of the parade
Em
The underbelly went lethal
[Chorus 2]
G A
In 2007 tried to build a bridge
D G
Between how I was living and how I could live
G A
I tricked myself into thinking I'd done enough
D G
Once I got across I didn't blow it up
G A D
Yeah, I closed some lanes, all it really takes is one
[Bridge]
Em F#m G
Opening to tear apart all your works
D Em F#m G
So fine you are, delicate un-achieve all your half-philosophy
D Em F#m G
Style points, blind belief a whirling perpetuity
D Em F#m G
The ocean warm that knows you did the same before
[Chorus 3]
G A
So in 2017 we did away with facts
D G
All negotiation with a battle axe
G A
The gruesome ideology is center shame
D G
American identity was laid to waste
G
We're backlit and exposed
A Bm D Em
Sugar stripped and it's made clean
[Outro]
G
The people I become
A D
The people I can't replicate
