Published: 2024-04-22 15:16 Selection chords: Ethan Cooper
Tonality
Verse:
Bm
Quick, quick
GD
Tell me something awful like you are a poet
D
Trapped inside the body of a finance guy
BmG
Tell me all your secrets
D
All you’ll ever be is
Bm
My eternal consolation prize
GD
You see I was a debutant in another life, but
Bm
Now I seem to be scared to Go outside
D
If comfort is a construct, I don’t believe in good luck
Now that I know what’s what
Chorus:
D
I hate it here so I will Go to secret gardens in my mind
Bm
People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
AG
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
DBm
I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
AG
I hate it here
Verse:
BmG
My friends used to play a game where
D
We would pick a decade
Bm
We wished we could live in instead of this
GD
I’d say the 1830s but without all the racists
Bm
And getting married off for the highest bid
GD
Everyone would look down ’cause it wasn’t fun now
Bm
Seems like it was never even fun back then
G
Nostalgia is a mind’s trick
D
If I’d been there, I’d hate it
It was freezing in the palace
Chorus:
D
I hate it here so I will Go to Lunar valleys in my mind
Bm
When they found a better planet Only the gentle survived
A
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
DBm
I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
AG
I hate it here
Bridge:
A
I’m lonely, but I’m good
I’m bitter, but I swear I’m fine
GEmBm
I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I’ll get lost on purpose
GD
This place made me feel worthless
EmBmGD
Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me and in my fantasies I rise above it
G
And way up there, I actually love it
Chorus:
D
I hate it here so I will Go to secret gardens in my mind
Bm
People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
AG
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
DBm
I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
AG
I hate it here
Outro:
Quick, quick, tell me something awful
D
Like you are a poet
BmGAGD
Trapped inside the body of a finance guy