Verse 1:
Am G
Did your eyes get wide and all excited?
C
You were like 15, discovered nitrous.
Am G
Spending every night on empty beaches
C
With the same four kids you'd never sleep with.
Am G
Now you're without it, you can't party anymore
C
So you go and make a record about it.
Am G
The hometown drug scene, every 14 year old
C
Restless brat's wet dream,
Am G
Sporting the same shades, same tank top, same blue jeans
C
Hit the same beach and drink the same vodka sweet tea.
Am G
Unfairly pass the blame and claim it was generational,
C
Predisposition tourney prestigious, invitational.
Am G
Like, don't look at me, I wasn't even conceived,
C
When the scene, the game became operational.
Am G
I'm a poser, you said it yourself,
C
Don't expect me not to pose when the cameras come out!
Am G
You missed the lesson on looking out for yourself,
C
May not be on the up and up but I'm on the up and out.
Chorus:
Am G C
So take me to the far side of the beach,
C
Before it falls into the ocean,
Am G C
Before you notice I'm eroding,
C
I know you don't want to be lonely.
Am G C Am G C
Oooh -Ooh, ahh- I know you don't want to be lonely.
Verse 2:
Am G
The sun and the substances you'd choke down
C
Combine in your mind for wild lies about how
Am G
Your favorite celebrity's car just broke down
C
They're stranded and they gotta crash at your house!
Am G
All the kids that were mean to you in school are broke now,
C
On the side of the road asking big shots for handouts.
Am G
Big shots like you, cause look at you, you're awesome,
C
But you're laying on the beach like an amputee dolphin.
Chorus 2:
Am G C
"The world just ain't ready for us yet, that's it,"
Am G C
Says the guy to your left, you would die for that kid.
Am G C
Watch his eyes as they get sorta distant and different,
Am G C
and we're moving in place again.
Am G C
We're moving in place again.
Bridge:
C Am G C Am G
It sure is fun to hate something you'll love when it's gone
C Am C
This time it's everywhere and everyone at once,
C Am
From moving in place to moving on
G C
to moving on, to moving on, to moving on
Chorus:
Am G C
Take me to the far side of the beach, before it falls into the ocean,
Am G C
Before you notice I'm eroding, I know you don't want to be lonely.
Am G C
I know you don't want to be lonely, I know 'cause I would feel the same thing.
Am G C
Tomorrow I'm gonna be 18, Right now it takes everything in me
Am G
To kick and claw and fight against that instinct,
C
To lay there and just sink into the same beach
Am G
And get so high that I feel my brain shrink,
C
Justify it's not a massive time waste,
Am G
Close my eyes, deny I see you sinking,
C
Lay there right beside you in that imprint
Am G
I left there that night in 2019
C
Lean into the tide and let it take me...
Outro:
Am G
Did your eyes get wide and all excited?
C
You were like 15, discovered nitrous.
Am G
Spending every night on empty beaches
C
With the same four kids
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