Key: E major
Verse 1
A
C#m
G#m
F#m
I had a girl I knew, She grew,
E
A
became a woman now
G#m
C#m
G#m
I think that she teaches at
F#m
E
A
one of the schools downtown
G#m
C#m
G#m
We used to roll the windows down
F#m
E
A
and play the music loud
F#m
E
A
lost in west Omaha
Verse 2
C#m
G#m
F#m
E
our bod ies twist like shoelaces
A
G#m
And we never came untied,
F#m
E
A
I guess you were just my type
C#m
G#m
You know that summer never stopped,
F#m
E
A
I still pretend I'm there
C#m
F#m
E
C#m
the neighbors, they never cared
Verse 3
C#m
B
So when I sat behind the drum set,
F#m
E
your heartbeat's what I tried to play
F#m
F
B
E
But with the kick and snare so careless,
B
D#dim
D
Dm
not in time
D
So you got ahead of me, and I guess I'm still dragging
A
E
G#m
F#m
E
A
E
G#m
F#m
E
behind
F#m
B
A
G#
C#m
F#m
I had a friend who changed his name
E
A
but couldn't change himself
Verse 4
F#m
E
A
how to deal with what life had dealt
C#m
G#sus4
C#m
He put a needle in his
F#m
E
A
arm to calm his handsome hell
G#sus4
G#
G#m
Who would've ima gined it,
F#m
E
A
could've worked out so well?
G#
F#m
E
A
like echoes through my empty room
Verse 5
F#sus4
F#m
E
A
like someone's right behind me
E
G#m
C#m
G#m
I turned around and found ex actly
F#sus4
F#m
E
A
what you would expect
F#sus4
F#m
E
A
the pa pers piled on my desk
C#m
G#m
But where the ink is wet, the cause,
F#sus4
F#m
E
A
effects, what's meant by it?
Verse 6
F#m
E
C#m
the picture's left unfinished
A
B
So I am writing my own ending,
F#m
E
Bsus4
B
E
F#m
I let my pen bleed black or blue
C#m
C#sus4
C#m
F#m
B
And I will col or in the meaning,
F#m
E
it will be gold and green and true
F#m
F
Faug
F#m
And I'll learn to love my new
A
B
D#dim
B
discovered proof
D
Dm
D
Verse 7
Outro 1
A
E
F#m
E
A
E
G#m
F#m
E
A
E
F#m
E
A
E
F#m
E
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