[Verse 1]
Bm
Quick, quick
G
Tell me something awful
D
like you are a poet
D
Trapped inside the body
of a finance guy
Bm G
Tell me all your secrets
D
All you’ll ever be is
Bm
My eternal consolation prize
G
You see I was a debutant
D
in another life, but
Now I seem to be scared
Bm
to go outside
D
If comfort is a construct,
I don’t believe
in good luck
Now that I know
what’s what
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[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 I read about it in a book when I was a G precocious child No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears D I’m there most of the Bm year ’cause I hate it here A G I hate it here [Verse 2] Bm My friends used to G play a game where D We would pick a decade We wished we could live Bm in instead of this G I’d say the 1830s D but without all the racists And getting married Bm off for the highest bid G Everyone would look D down ’cause it wasn’t fun now Seems like it was Bm never even fun back then G Nostalgia is a mind’s trick If I’d been there, D I’d hate it It was freezing in the palace
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[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 The night I felt like G I might die No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears D I’m there most of the year Bm ’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 I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life and Em Bm I’ll get lost on purpose G This place made me D feel worthless Em Bm Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me G and in my fantasies D I rise above it G 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 I read about it in a book when I was a G precocious child No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears D I’m there most of the Bm 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 Trapped inside the Bm body of a finance guy G A G D
