Butch Walker - Summer of 89
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(intro)
Ao-ohD-oDooAhh
Ao-ohE-oEooAhh
AChanging strings,
DAnd banging on things
AA couple of girls from the Eschool
AWould listen to KISS
D(With rockets for fists)
AActing like ESaturdays Afool
ALearned how to smoke,
DTold dirty jokes
ATalked about loose girls from ERome
AI made out with most of them
DSo I raised a toast to them
AEspecially Enow that I'm A(old)
And they're D45 with husbands who don'tA like theirE wives
D3 or 4 kids, make Aenough to Esurvive
DIn their paper mill jobs
AWhile their teen heartthrobs
EAre playing in bands
EOr they're dead
(Chorus)
Can I Ago back to when
DI was the winner
AWay before the rain came
EAnd washed away the sinners
AEveryone was something and
DNothing was done right or Ewrong-ooh
(intro)
Ao-ohD-oDooAhh
Ao-ohE-oEooAhh
ASmothering the cover of a 'D69 summer
APlayed through a speaker of fuEzz
ANobody knew bryan adams wasn'tD cool
AThe TV just Etold me he Awas
AAlways heard the sound get Dme out of this town
AResonating clear on my heEad
AChuck ran away with our gear aDnd the drugs
AI'm pretty sEure that he's Adead
DOr he's 46 and alone,
ACast the heaviest stEone,
DSuburban cover bAand playing bad toE the bone
DIn a bath tub of meth
AYou can smell your own death
Eyou know when you can't look the past in the eye
(Chorus)
Can I Ago back to when
DI was the winner
AWay before the rain came
EAnd washed away the sinners
AEveryone was something
D(And I could never do any Ewrong)
Ao-ohD-oDooAhh
Ao-ohE-oEooAhh
AWent back to the woods
DWhere I hid all my goods
AIn a rusted out cadillacE door
Awe all get nostalgic
DAnd fall for the hat trick
AOf thinking itE'll be like beAfore
(this part is talked)(while holding all the chords on the edge)
Like the football jocks
Trying to please their pops
And the stoners aping everything their bad uncles taught
And the teachers who cared
More than I ever knew,
And knew I played clubs
Let me sleep through school
And my day job boss
Who wrote it up as a loss
But let me leave when i wanted and I never got caught
Sleeping out on the field
In the back of my truck
Breaking into the bars
Steal the beer and getting laid
By a girl twice my age, making minimum wage
But the tan lines were good
And she had a good face
Is this what I've become
Is this all I've become
When do I become,
(Chorus)
Can I Ago back to when
DI was the winner
AWay before the rain came
EAnd washed away the sinners
AEveryone was something
DAnd I could never do any wErong
Ao-ohD-oDooAhh
Ao-ohE-oEooAhh
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