Becoming the Lastnames Chords by Will Wood

[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [A] _ [Em] _ [Bm] _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[D] _ Don't take the following [G] words as reverence [D] for tradition _ _ _ _
_ [F#] [Em] I've learned to pick my [F#] battles [G] by losing most [D] I've [G] fought
[Em] [D] The more more race subverted, [G] _ the more I sense [D] I'm missing
_ _ _ _ And [Em] I'll always do it my [G] way, even if that's just the same way [D] I was [G] taught
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ [Em] _ [D] I'll bring home the bread, [G] _ and you'll stay [D] home and bake [F#m] it
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] Weeding out the garden, [G] _ _ where the milestones [D] gather maw
_ [A] [D] Crack a smile at my vows and [G] whisper wow, can you believe we [D] really made it? _ _ _
[Am] [D] As I [Em] give up on dodging [G] rights and fold my cape, I say obviously [D] not _ _ _ _ _
But I [Em] wanna be just like [G] my parents before I [D] was born _ _ _
Oh, [Em] can we be [G] just like my parents?
_ [D] I _ [Em] _ [D] _ _
[G] _ [D] know you don't want [G] kids, but think about [D] a daughter
_ We _
_ _ [Em] could name her [G] Gwendolyn, _ like mom would have [D] called me
[G] _ [D] I'm not sure yet myself, [G] _ but I learned from [D] my good father
[F#m] [D] Yeah, _ _ [Em] I mean, sure they messed me up, [Bm] _ [G] _ but I think that's [D] just the game
[G] And [D] _ [G] _ _ [D] maybe it's just some hormones [G] _ that kick in when you're [D] late 20
_ _ _ _ But I [Em] have laid a lot of women, [G] _ and now I'd like to [D] just lay [Em] down
[D] And marriage always scared [G] me, but I'd like to [D] have a last love _ _ _
_ [Em] And love can last a pretty good long [G] while, I've seen [D] it around _ _ _ _ _
Oh, [Em] can we be just like my [G]
parents when [D] I was young? _ _ _
[Am] [D] Why [Em] can't we be just like [G] my parents?
_ [D] _ _ So _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
[A] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [Bm] _
[Em] _ [Bm] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] tongue out of my cheek now, [G] I'm done pulling faces
[D] _ _ Iconoclasm wanes, [F#] my sinuses [A] untires, [Bm] but what do I know about forever?
[G] When so far I've been so fleeting, [D] they've my frontal lobes done growing
[A] This might just be how I'm wired, [Em] but now we're kissing before brushing _
[G] Smile with our whole faces, [D] if you wanna hyphen last name [F#] I guess
[C#] I don't mind the cadence, [Bm] I've seen whole videos
[G] I was there back in the 80s, [D] and if I'm just them, and they back [A] then could do it
Why can't I?
_ [Em] _ _
Just [G] like my parents, [D] in due time
_ _ _ _ [Em] Imagine me, just [G] like my parents
[D] Yeah, I, [Em] _ _ [Bm] _ [G] _ _ [D] cause I made the [Em] mistake
That simple, [D] empty moment
_ [C] _ _ [D] Oh, [Em] each one is out of character
[G] _ As you know I [D] tend to [G] be
[D] There'll be scalpers at the [D] cemetery gates
With all my birthday [G] weirdos weeping
_ [Gm] [Am] Oh, [Gm] _ [Em] I have forgotten all their names
[G] So why should you [D] remember [G] me?
_ [D] _ _
_ Assuming we grow old together
[G] _
Will [D] you talk to my headstone? _ _ _
That [Em] is assuming that I die first, [G] which is fair
And assuming I [D] don't leave
[G] _ _ [D] Close enough to forever, [G] _ I guess
To [D] prove what I hope
_ _ _ [Bm] [A#m] I [A#] mean, [E] [A] otherwise how am I to bother
_ [D] _ Leaving _ [C#] all _
[A] of [Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
[Bm] _ [Em] _ [G] _ you? _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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