Chords for Don't Ever Let Your Children Grow Up - Maddie Poppe

_ _ _ _ _ _ Just one.
_ _ Just _ one song. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F#m] _ _ _ _ [Bm] When you learned your numbers and shapes and [G] played pretend. _ _ _ _
[D] Your hair was a mess you were so [F#m] _ carefree.
_ [Bm] You didn't know how cold and cruel this world [G] would one day be.
_ [Em] We were just [A] so young.
We should have [D] known.
[F#m] We should have [Bm] known. _
_ [Em] That one day we'd hate our bodies and [A] we'd orbit around buttons [D] on a phone.
[F#m] We should [Bm] have known.
_ _ That [Em] one day we'd pluck our eyebrow hairs [A] and wonder why the cool kids [D] stare at me.
[F#m] Oh, why'd it have [Bm] to be me?
_ _ [Em] Our imaginations have run [A] dry.
We hate ourselves and have a nightly [D] cry.
And then we [F#m] act like we're [Bm] fine. _
_ _ [Em] It's alcohol and bombs and drugs.
[A] Don't ever let your children [D] grow up. _
Oh.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] Swing on the swings and jump off and pretend [F#m] we could fly.
_ But [Bm] as soon as we blinked we grew up and we're [G] junior high.
_ [D] So our dads dropped us off at the park and we stayed out [F#m] till ten.
_ _ [Bm] So the makeup comes out and we think we [G] need the perfect boyfriend.
[Em] We were just [A] so young.
How didn't [D] we know?
[F#m] How didn't we [Bm] know?
_ _ That [Em] we'd be independent on our [A] own.
And lose more friends while traveling down [D] the road.
[F#m] Oh, how didn't [Bm] we know?
_ [Em] That there's more to life than sleepovers.
[A] And jacks turn out worse than the [D] science nerds.
But somehow [F#m] that all [Bm] gets blurred.
_ And some [Em] relationships they end real fast.
[A] And though you want you might never [D] get it back.
The door [F#m] is closed just like [Bm] that.
_ It's [Em] depression and [Em] it's broken [A] love.
Don't ever let your children grow [D] up.
Oh.
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[Em] Ooh.
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ Ooh.
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[Em] We're no longer [A] young.
So now that [D] we know.
[F#m] So now that we [Bm] know.
_ _ That [Em] this world could use [Em] some turning [A] around.
If only we could find some common [D] ground.
[F#m] But it's up to [Bm] _ us.
_ [Em] And although at times it [A] gets so rough.
You [D] have got to let your [F#m] children [Bm] grow up.
_ Yeah, you [Em] have got to let your children.
_ [A] Got to let your children [D] grow up. _ _ _ _
_ _ Okay.
_ Oh, look at me.