Verse 1:
 Bm
 Quick, quick
                                        D
 Tell me something awful like you are a poet
                                     G
 Trapped inside the body of a finance guy

 Tell me all your secrets

 All you’ll ever be is
                             Bm
 My eternal consolation prize
                                    D
 You see I was a debutant in another life, but
                                  G
 Now I seem to be scared to go outside

 If comfort is a construct, I don’t believe in good luck

 Now that I know what’s what

Chorus:
   D
 I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
 Bm
 People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
   A                                               G
 I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child

 No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
 D                                             Bm
 I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
                A  G
 I hate it here


Verse 2:
 Bm
 My friends used to play a game where
                 D
 We would pick a decade
                                       G
 We wished we could live in instead of this

 I’d say the 1830s but without all the racists
                                           Bm
 And getting married off for the highest bid
                                           D
 Everyone would look down ’cause it wasn’t fun now
                                       G
 Seems like it was never even fun back then

 Nostalgia is a mind’s trick

 If I’d been there, I’d hate it

 It was freezing in the palace

Chorus:
   D
 I hate it here so I will go to Lunar valleys in my mind
 Bm
 When they found a better planet Only the gentle survived
   A
 I dreamed about it in the dark
                               G
 The night I felt like I might die

 No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
 D                                             Bm
 I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
                A  G
 I hate it here

Bridge:
     A
 I’m lonely, but I’m good

 I’m bitter, but I swear I’m fine
      G                                                      Em      Bm
 I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I’ll get lost on purpose
                 G       D
 This place made me feel worthless
 Em                         Bm                                   G                       D
 Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me and in my fantasies I rise above it
     G      (nc)
 And way up there, I actually love it

Chorus:
   D
 I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
 Bm
 People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
   A                                               G
 I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child

 No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
 D                                             Bm
 I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
                A  G
 I hate it here

Outro:

 Quick, quick, tell me something awful
                D
 Like you are a poet
                                   Bm        A  G  D
 Trapped inside the body of a finance guy