The Lawrence Arms Seventeener 17th And 13th Metropole 2014 Submitted by: [email protected] Key: E Tuning: Standard EADGBe Chords used: E - 022100 B - x24442 C#m - x46654 A - x02220 B/Eb - x698xx G#/C - x365xx Verse 1: E B I never wanted to die old C#m But it's too late now A My heart has grown so cold E And the corpse I leave B behind Ain't gonna be C#m A No pretty boy It's a sick sack of disease. Verse 2: E We thought about B/Eb Ways we'd love to go C#m B High and beautiful A And fucking in the E B/Eb snow On New Years Day or Christmas Eve C#m On a warm November B night buried beneath the A orange leaves. It's B a few dreams on the ways that we E could leave. Chorus 1: C#m My heart got kicked B A out of all its homes E And dying young just B didn't work and so C#m I guess I'm dying A A old And there ain't B C#m nowhere left to go A Cause all my loves B E-- would rather be alone Verse 3: E And yesterday B I woke up to find C#m A The black in my beard E had turn to white And the pretty girls B G#/C C#m that used to smile at me Just stared off straight A ahead or looked down C#m at their feet. So tonight A E I'll sit up here With B these street lights and C#m these seventeen beers Straight from the page A E of a teenage diary Underneath these shitty B stars like I was A B seventeen. I mean Chorus 2: C#m My heart got kicked B A out of all its homes E And dying young just B didn't work and so C#m I guess I'm dying A A old And there ain't B C#m nowhere left to go A Cause all my loves B E-- would rather be alone A And there ain't B C#m nowhere left to go A Cause all my loves B E(hold) would rather be alone
