[Verse 1]
Cm Quick, quick
G G Tell me something awful like you are a poet
G Trapped inside the body of a finance guy
Cm G Tell me all your secrets
G All you’ll ever be is
Cm My eternal consolation prize
G G You see I was a debutant in another life, but
Cm Now I seem to be scared to Go outside
G If comfort is a construct, I don’t believe in good luck
Now that I know what’s what
[Chorus]
G I hate it here so I will Go to secret gardens in my mind
Cm People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
B G I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
G Cm I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
B G I hate it here
[Verse 2]
Cm G My friends used to play a game where
G We would pick a decade
Cm We wished we could live in instead of this
G G I’d say the 1830s but without all the racists
Cm And getting married off for the highest bid
G G Everyone would look down ’cause it wasn’t fun now
Cm Seems like it was never even fun back then
G Nostalgia is a mind’s trick
G If I’d been there, I’d hate it
It was freezing in the palace
[Chorus]
G I hate it here so I will Go to Lunar valleys in my mind
Cm When they found a better planet Only the gentle survived
B I dreamed about it in the dark
G The night I felt like I might die
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
G Cm I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
B G I hate it here
[Bridge]
B I’m lonely, but I’m good
I’m bitter, but I swear I’m fine
G Bm Cm I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I’ll get lost on purpose
G G This place made me feel worthless
Bm Cm G G Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me and in my fantasies I rise above it
G N.C.
And way up there, I actually love it
[Chorus]
G I hate it here so I will Go to secret gardens in my mind
Cm People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
B G I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
G Cm I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
B G I hate it here
[Outro]
Quick, quick, tell me something awful
G Like you are a poet
Cm G B G G Trapped inside the body of a finance guy
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