Intro: D  D/C#   G 

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 Yeah, I've got friends who wanna catch up on old times 
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But that just makes me feel ashamed to be me 
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 And I've got friends who wanna relive the past 
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And deify memories 
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And they just scream to me 
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That if you don't die young 
       G 
You're gonna live too long. 


On the stoop of the apartment next to my shitty job 
An old friend passed me on the street today 
I said "Hello" and tried to catch up on old times 
She walked the other way. 
Maybe I seemed to scream 

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That if I got cancer or somebody shot me 
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I'd be like a child or something, 
Em                G 
Asking doctors to do me favors 
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or cross my fingers and hope it gets better 
       Em               G 
Like a broken record, I seem to scream, 

If you don't die young, you're gonna live too long. 

D  G 

      D 
I was getting drunk in a foreign ocean 
G 
Trying to wrap my head around problems 
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And all my bitterness just seemed passe. 

          D 
Because I realized as soon as I said it 
    G 
How long it'd take to swim from Jones Beach to Indonesia 
    Bm 
And maybe you're waiting on a call from me. 

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And maybe you're working in a crowded restaurant 
    G 
And you're the one who's got a life so fucked up 
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that you don't know what happened. 

Just like you saw me working at some restaurant 
Embarrassed 'cause my life was just so fucked up. 
And I don't know how it happened.