Key: C
Introduction:
C F C
Rowing the campground up by the lake where we swam.
F C
We were hunting for snakes,
F C
But we couldn' t find them.
C
Surrounded by nothing,
F C
But the nothing' s surrounded by us.
F C
But it' s just me in my room,
F C
With my eyes shut.
Am C
Oh when I was seventeen,
F C
My mother said to me
Am C F C
Don' t stop imagining The day that you do is the day that you die.
Am C
Now I pull a wanton carriage,
F C
Instead of the horses, grazing along.
Am C
I was having fun.
F C
We were all having fun.
C F C
My brain kicking faster than I can, but not fast enough.
F C
Who is there to talk to
F C
That won' t lock me up?
C F C
At least God doesn' t judge me by the thoughts that aren' t mine.
F C
The snakes I couldn' t find,
F C
I don' t want to find.
C Em F C
Ohhhhh
Am C
Oh when I was seventeen,
F C
My mother said to me
Am C F C
Don' t stop imagining The day that you do is the day that you die.
Am C
Now I pull a wanton carriage,
F C
Instead of the horses, grazing along.
Am C
I was having fun.
F C
We were all having fun.
*This represents the author' s own work and interpretation of the song.*