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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
D             G                 Bm
 And I've got friends who wanna relive the past
    G          Bm
And deify memories
    G                   Bm
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

        Em              G
That if I got cancer or somebody shot me
D             A
I'd be like a child or something,
Em                G
Asking doctors to do me favors
   D                    A
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
    Bm                               E
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.

                 D
And maybe you're working in a crowded restaurant
    G
And you're the one who's got a life so fucked up
         Bm              E
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.