Key: C
C
They tell you while you’re young
Am
Girls, go out and have your fun
Em
Then they hunt and slay the ones
F
G4
G
Who actually do it
C
Criticize the way you fly
Am
When you’re soaring through the sky
Em
Shoot you down and then they sigh
F
G4
G
And say, “She looks like she’s been through it”
Am
G
F
Lord what will become of me
G4
G
Once I’ve lost my novelty
F
G
C
I’ve had too much to drink tonight
C/B
Am
And I know it’s sad but this is what I think about
F
G
C
And I wake up in the middle of the night
C/B
Am
It’s like I can feel time moving
F
G
How can a person know everything at 18
C
C/B
Am
But nothing at twenty-two?
F
And will you still want me
G
* C
When I’m nothing new?
C
How long will it be cute
Am
All this crying in my room
Em
When you can’t blame it on my youth
F
G4
G
And roll your eyes with affection
C
And my cheeks are growing tired
Am
From turning red and faking smiles
Em
F
G4
G
Are we only biding time till I lose your attention?
Am
G
F
And someone else lights up the room
G4
G
People love an ingénue
F
G
C
I’ve had too much to drink tonight
C/B
Am
How did I go from growing up to breaking down?
F
G
C
And I wake up in the middle of the night
C/B
Am
It’s like I can feel time moving
F
G
How can a person know everything at 18
C
C/B
Am
But nothing at twenty-two?
F
And will you still want me
G
*
When I’m nothing new?
C
F
I know someday I’m gonna meet her
G
F
It’s a fever dream
G
F
The kind of radiance you only have at seventeen
G
F
She’ll know the way and then she’ll say she got the map from me
G
C
I’ll say I’m happy for her then I’ll cry myself to sleep
Am
Em
F
Oooh Oooh Oooh
C
Am
Em
F
Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh
G
* C
*
I’ve had too much to drink tonight
Am
* F
*
But I wonder if they’ll miss me once they drive me out
G
* C
*
I wake up (wake up) in the middle of the night
Am
*
And I can feel time moving
F
G
How can a person know everything at 18
C
C/B
Am
But nothing at twenty-two?
F
G
And will you still want me
C
C/B
Am
Will you still want me
F
Will you still want me
G
*
When I’m nothing new?