(Quickly alternate strokes up and down)
Intro: Em / G / Dsus4 / Em / G / Dsus
Em G Dsus4
My Dad told me each love will be different.
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My Dad told me each love will be good.
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Buy my Dad's never had a broken heart,
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because my Dad's got my Mum.
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I'm too scared to fall in love again,
Em G Dsus4 Em
I'll just focus on my family, my art and my friends.
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I'm too scared to fall in love again,
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I'll just focus on anything else.
(Single strum)
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I want to be academic, confident and romantic,
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but I just feel weird and overdramatic.
(Return to alternate up & downstrokes)
Em G Dsus4 Em
Daily reminders that I am pathetic.
G Dsus4
When you're surrounded by it, it's hard to forget it.
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I see your straight faces in the magazines,
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the ones I used to read when I was thirteen.
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Now I can't sleep for all these flashbacks.
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Caravans and guys in bands and polystyrene hands.
(Different strum pattern - listen to song for comparison)
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Everything I had I seem to have lost.
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Everyone who loved me seems to have forgot.
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Everything I want seems so far away.
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I'll just stay in bed for another day.
Outro (x2):
Em G Dsus4
Hikikomori.