Farewell Youth

B  C#m        E               
PA turnpike, northbound on a dark 
F#
night
B            C#m         
Driving into Scranton for a 
   E           F#
difficult occasion
     E                  D#/E      
When you first got your license we
      E             C#m
 were nowhere to be found
      E             D#/E          
I was just a little kid back then 
        E            F#
but you let me hang around
                B
But we'€re older now


[Chorus]
         F#                 G#m   
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I 
        E
hardly got to know you
      B              F#           
I was always hanging out with the 
      E
older kids
B           F#              G#m 
Always in a rush, but I was 
            E
never sure from what
      B              F#           
I was always hanging out with the 
      E
older kids


[Verse 2]
    B                 C#m          
The grief starts when bumping into 
E              F#
friends turned acquaintances
   B                  C#m
We stumble around the small talk
   E                      F#
We break the silence with Jameson
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     E              D#/E
But once we were inseparable
             E            C#m
We were the only punks in town
         E             D#/E       
We spent every weekend raisin' 
         E                        
hell in the basement of your parents
F#
 house
               B
But we'€re older now


[Chorus]
         F#                 G#m   
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I 
        E
hardly got to know you
      B              F#           
I was always hanging out with the 
      E
older kids
B           F#              G#m 
Always in a rush, but I was 
            E
never sure from what
      B              F#           
I was always hanging out with the 
      E
older kids


[Bridge]
              C#m              
In someone's apartment, getting 
        E
fucked up
    B                       
To all our favorite records, 
 G#m
drinking the cheap stuff
                C#m        E
We couldn'€t get enough of growing 
up
         E                 D#/E   
I saw my childhood flash before me
        E                   C#
 in the death of your closed eyes
        E             D#/E         
At your Irish wake we celebrate by 
E            F#
trying not to cry


[Chorus]
B        F#                 G#m 
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I 
          E
hardly got to know you
      B              F#           
I was always hanging out with the 
      E
older kids
B           F#              G#m 
Always in a rush, but I was 
            E
never sure from what
      B              F#           
I was always hanging out with the 
      E
older kids


[Other]
         B   F#
Farewell youth
         G#m  E
Farewell youth
         B  F#              G#m  
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I 
              E
hardly got to know you
         B   F#
Farewell youth
        G#m  E
Farewell youth
         B  F#              G#m  
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I 
              E
hardly got to know you
              B              F#
Because I was always hanging out 
                 E
with the older kids