Tom: Em
B4 C/G A/C# Em
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Intro: G C B4 G C Em C X2
G C/G
I was born in September
B4 G
And like everything else, I can't remember
C Em C C
I replaced it with scenes from a film that I will never know
G C/G
And I blinked, it was over
B4 G
I was thinking my life would get slower
C/G Em
That I would sort this shit out when I'm sober
C C G
It gets better now that you're older
C/G
I read the scares on the front page
B4 G
It says we're waiting around for an ice age
C Em
It says our comforts, they come with a price tag
C C G
They cured the cancer but discovered a new plague
They say just think of the children
And imagine the world that we've willed them
Is populated with weirdos to kill them
And break their hearts
G
And everybody knows
C/G
That this the end
B4 G
It's now fashionable
C/G B4
Dinner party conversation
D
Now I'm as old as you were when you had me
C G
Should I be afraid? Should I start a family?
D
Raise them in the wild 'cause up against the city
C
My love is such a small thing
G C Em
G C/G B4 G C B4 C C
G C/G
When you're young, you're hot
B4 G
You have your whole life before you. Everyone will adore
C/G Em
You'll grow up, you'll be an astronaut
C C
Or anything you want
G C/G
What goes up, goes up in flames
B4 G
And now your choices surround you, Indecision confounds you
C Em
And you're pacing around the place
C C
Shows you everything you're not
G C/G
And then the brief little romance
B4 G
You committed a soul without its consent
C/G Em
To live a life as a form without its content
G C/G
Because young people get bored everyday
G C/G B4
Yeah young people, young people get bored
D
Never went to church, thought a song was going to save me
C G
So I wrote a hymn on the guitar that you gave me
D
Signal wood to smoke I built a fire look for smoke
C
Know that hope is just a small thing
G
I just called to tell you
C
I just called to say
Em G
Learn all your mistakes
C/G A/C#
You were my inspiration
G
And it wasn't all we hoped for
C
But we shake it off and we say
Em G
Here's your yellow ribbon
C A/C# G
I am your consolation
C
I was born in September And if I died today
Em G
Just know I don't regret you
C/G A/C#
Some things I can't explain
Em
It's a slow descent
C/G A
It's a loveless place
C/G G
Every goddamn day
C
And Now you know
Em
No matter where you go
C A
Know that I will follow
G
That I will follow
C
You not only home
A
It's not much but it's all that i know
Em C G
Here's how it goes
Outro:
I just called to tell you
I just called to say
Learn all your mistakes
Passed down through generations
