Key: C
Introduction:
C F Am G
I used to shut my door while my mother screamed in the kitchen
C F Am G
I' d turn the music up, get high and try not to listen
C F Am G
To every little fight, ' cause neither one was right
C F
I swore I' d never be like them
Am G
But I was just a kid back then
F G
The older I get the more that I see
C Am
My parents aren' t heroes, they' re just like me
F G
And loving is hard, it don' t always work
C Am
You just try your best not to get hurt
F G
I used to be mad but now I know
C Am
Sometimes it' s better to let someone go
F
It just hadn' t hit me yet
C
The older I get
F Am G
I used to wonder why, why they could never be happy
C F Am G
I used to close my eyes and pray for a whole ' nother family
C F Am G
Where everything was fine, one that felt like mine
C F
I swore I' d never be like them
Am G
But I was just a kid back then
F G
The older I get the more that I see
C Am
My parents aren' t heroes, they' re just like me
F G
And loving is hard, it don' t always work
C Am
You just try your best not to get hurt
F G
I used to be mad but now I know
C Am
Sometimes it' s better to let someone go
F
It just hadn' t hit me yet
C
The older I get
F G
The older I get the more that I see
C Am
My parents aren' t heroes, they' re just like me
F G
And loving is hard, it don' t always work
C Am
You just try your best not to get hurt
F G
I used to be mad but now I know
C Am
Sometimes it' s better to let someone go
F
It just hadn' t hit me yet
C
The older I get