Tom: E
E
Lately, I like to take walks after work wearing
A
Nothing but my undershirt
E
The wind picking up my eyes
A
The blood rushing back to my heart
E
There’s a show on the corner with
A
Some kids I met in Oakland
E
You’re sitting on the roof of your car
A
Parked right outside the record store
E A
E
Have you seen my self-esteem?
A
It’s picking up it’s feet out of the
E
Gutter it was laying in
A
“just blowing off some steam.“
E
It’s fine, let’s walk the tracks until my
A
Shorts are ripping at the seams
E
We’ll drink a forty and play polo in my
A
Single speeded dream
E
When she gets drunk she calls me loser and
A
I get worried that I’ll lose her and
E
Have to make a bunch of new friends in another
A
stupid town and play my
E
GameBoy on the front porch at Pergs,
A
trying to realize that
E A
the butterflies that live inside my stomach gotta die
E A X2
[Chorus]
E
I leaned back and looked up, it said:
C#m
“Fuck me, I’m drunk.“
B
In sharpie on the ceiling of the
A
Seventy six in downtown Arcata
E
This town’s gone to shit
C#m
One day I’ll learn to commit but
B
for now I’m throwing pumpkins down
A*
The hill at Laurel and California
E A x4
[Verse 2]
E
My lungs are blacker than the perique packs and
A E
Pupils in your eyes after the forty minute real-talk
A
All the way to In-N-Out
E
We drive each other to out tipping points
A
There’s months of lean blunts, pizza joints
E
There’s nothing like the shit you find out
A
Talking to your mom so late at night
E A
E A
And even though it’s been getting easier lately
E
It takes a lot to convince me that
A E
People don’t hate me, and sometimes
A
When I’m in the car with you guys
E A
I feel like maybe I’m not that crazy
E A
I’m getting better, and some day
E A
I’ll get all this straight inside my head but
E A
Right now I’m still trying to learn
E A
How to keep a steady circle of friends
[Chorus]
E C#m
But you gave me cocaine for my nineteenth birthday
B
And about a year ago that day
A
We almost got arrested at the movies
E
And I was just there talking with my
C#m
Hands shaking in my pockets
B A*
I looked at you and read your lips, they said:
N.C.
“I’ve got your back if you’ve got mine.“
