Angel Youth

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E6 F#m D Bm


[Verse 1]
      A
Oh, a warm hello

Would be apropos
  C#m
We haven't spoke in several weeks
  F#m
But solitude tends to be the mood
   Bm                           E
So you probably won't hear from me

               A
And there was once relief in the 
changing trees
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The contrails that cut the sky
                          F#m
But pre-arranged circumstances 
change
           Bm                  E
And I'd be lying if I said I'm fine

G                                 
Catch her in the switchbacks in 
      D
the line
Switching back to Central Standard 
     A
Time

Each day slightly more resigned
E
Trying to make some sense of life


[Chorus]
        A          Esus4  A
So if we take off
                    E   E6   E  E6
You could quit your day job
                        D
We'd call ourselves the Angel Youth
                             Bm
You'll find us traveling and making 
tunes

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           A         Esus4  A
But then I think of
               E     E6     E   E6
All the people we've loved
                       D
How they'll be growing older soon
                               Bm
How it's true for me and you


[Verse 2]
     A
So I convalesced in the middle west
C#m
And fell for Ohio's roads
F#m
I'm standing still by the windowsill
        Bm                    
Where I once watched the world 
  E
explode

             A
So when it's looking dark in your 
narrative arc
    F#m                    C#m    
I'm here and you can talk with me
F#m


A hackneyed fool under fascist rule
        E
Wasting days singing about his 
dreams

G                                 
All of which has lead me to 
  D
believe
Earth's a set and life's the movie 
       A
screen

And every dream that you have 
in-between
E
They'll fade with every frame you 
see


[Bridge]
          A           Esus4  A
Oh, is it self-hate?
                E  E6  E  E6
I wish I was in L.A
                 D
Far from all the roads we knew
                      Bm
Unworried where we're going through


[Chorus]
         A        Esus4  A
So if we take off
                    E   E6   E  E6
You could quit your day job
                   D
We'd call upon the Angel Youth
                  Bm
We're coming to a town near you

            A       Esus4  A
Lonely and outraged
                   E    E6     E  E6
Guess for now that I'll wait
               D
For generation Angel Youth
                      Bm
To point me towards a higher truth


[Other]
            A          Esus4  A
It's on the off-chance
                 E     E6     E  E6
We never come to cross hands
                        F#m
'Cause it's too late to not pretend
                   D
And I'd for all of this to end
                 E
Just glad that I could be your 
friend