All You Gotta Be When You Are 23 Is Yourself

[intro]

A E C#m D 2x

[verse]

A                E                    C#m
   i'll buy your ticket to the show 
              D
i'll buy you lemonade 
A         E                       C#m
if i only had fifty dollars to my name 
                            D
i know you'd do the same 

A              E
moving to a new city 
       C#m            D
shakey footing till ya kiss me 
        A
now i'm philadelphia crushin' 
           E
walk three miles with me, honey 
         C#m     D
just for fun 

[chorus]

E                                 D
cause all you gotta be when you're 23 
   A
is yourself 
                E
call yourself an artist, 
                 D
work part-time at whole foods 
         A
it's all good 

[verse]
                    E
displaced, thoughts racing 
    C#m                 D          
do i settle down or keep moving 
     A                    E
i am 23 years old today 
                       C#m    D
where's my birthday cake? 

                  A
feel better cause with you, 
         E
life's vacation 
              C#m
travel to the kitchen, 
             D
get wylde on green tea 

            A
re-read our favorite stories, 
                E
remember who we used to be 
        C#m
then forget it 
                                   D
cause we've got a whole new city to see 

[chorus]

E                               D
and all you gotta be when you're 23 
   A
is yourself 
                E
call yourself an artist, 
                 D
work part-time at whole foods 
         A
it's all good 

[outro]

                   E
wear stupid lookin' shoes 
               D
defuse leftover teenage blues 
           A
it's all good