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