Verse 1
[Bm]
Quick, quick
[D]
Tell me something awful like you are a poet
[G]
Trapped inside the body of a finance guy
Tell me all your secrets
All you’ll ever be is
[Bm]
My eternal consolation prize
[D]
You see I was a debutant in another life, but
[G]
Now I seem to be scared to go outside
If comfort is a construct, I don’t believe in good luck
Now that I know what’s what
Chorus
[D]
I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
[Bm]
People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
[A] [G]
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
[D] [Bm]
I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
[A] [G]
I hate it here
Verse 2
[Bm]
My friends used to play a game where
[D]
We would pick a decade
[G]
We wished we could live in instead of this
I’d say the 1830s but without all the racists
[Bm]
And getting married off for the highest bid
[D]
Everyone would look down ’cause it wasn’t fun now
[G]
Seems like it was never even fun back then
Nostalgia is a mind’s trick
If I’d been there, I’d hate it
It was freezing in the palace
Chorus
[D]
I hate it here so I will go to Lunar valleys in my mind
[Bm]
When they found a better planet Only the gentle survived
[A]
I dreamed about it in the dark
[G]
The night I felt like I might die
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
[D] [Bm]
I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
[A] [G]
I hate it here
Bridge
[A]
I’m lonely, but I’m good
I’m bitter, but I swear I’m fine
[G] [Em] [Bm]
I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I’ll get lost on purpose
[G] [D]
This place made me feel worthless
[Em] [Bm] [G] [D]
Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me and in my fantasies I rise above it
[G] N.C.
And way up there, I actually love it
Chorus
[D]
I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
[Bm]
People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
[A] [G]
I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
[D] [Bm]
I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it here
[A] [G]
I hate it here
Outro
Quick, quick, tell me something awful
[D]
Like you are a poet
[Bm] [A] [G] [D]
Trapped inside the body of a finance guy
