Young Fathers

B4         C/G        A/C#       Em

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Intro: G C B4 G C Em C X2

G             C/G
I was born in September
                    B4            G
And like everything else, I can't remember
                       C         Em                          C C
I replaced it with scenes from a film that I will never know

G                     C/G
And I blinked, it was over
                  B4             G
I was thinking my life would get slower
                            C/G          Em
That I would sort this shit out when I'm sober

C C                 G
It gets better now that you're older

                         C/G
I read the scares on the front page
                      B4            G
It says we're waiting around for an ice age
                           C           Em
It says our comforts, they come with a price tag
C C                       G
They cured the cancer but discovered a new plague

They say just think of the children
And imagine the world that we've willed them
Is populated with weirdos to kill them
And break their hearts

                     G
And everybody knows
              C/G
That this the end
                B4 G
It's now fashionable
                          C/G B4
Dinner party conversation

D
Now I'm as old as you were when you had me
C                   G
Should I be afraid? Should I start a family?
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D
Raise them in the wild 'cause up against the city
   C
My love is such a small thing

G C Em

G  C/G  B4  G  C  B4  C C

G                         C/G
When you're young, you're hot
              B4         G
You have your whole life before you. Everyone will adore
                                       C/G  Em
You'll grow up, you'll be an astronaut
   C            C
Or anything you want

G                        C/G
What goes up, goes up in flames
             B4      G
And now your choices surround you, Indecision confounds you
                                   C  Em
And you're pacing around the place
          C                 C
Shows you everything you're not

G                         C/G
And then the brief little romance
                B4               G
You committed a soul without its consent
                    C/G              Em
To live a life as a form without its content
                         G     C/G
Because young people get bored everyday
                                    G       C/G B4
Yeah young people, young people get bored

D
Never went to church, thought a song was going to save me
C                        G
So I wrote a hymn on the guitar that you gave me
D
Signal wood to smoke I built a fire look for smoke
          C
Know that hope is just a small thing

G
I just called to tell you
C
I just called to say
Em             G
Learn all your mistakes
C/G          A/C#
You were my inspiration

G
And it wasn't all we hoped for
C
But we shake it off and we say
Em          G
Here's your yellow ribbon
C         A/C#             G
I am your consolation

              C
I was born in September And if I died today
Em           G
Just know I don't regret you
C/G           A/C#
Some things I can't explain

Em
It's a slow descent
C/G                    A
It's a loveless place
      C/G           G
Every goddamn day

                 C
And Now you know
                       Em
No matter where you go
                        C  A
Know that I will follow
                   G
That I will follow
                   C
You not only home
                                A
It's not much but it's all that i know
Em           C      G
      Here's how it goes

Outro:

I just called to tell you
I just called to say
Learn all your mistakes
Passed down through generations