Eels – Mistakes Of My Youth (Guitar)

G       D/F#         C
 In the waning days ahead

  D                        G
I gotta look back down the road

  D/F#           D       C     D
I know that it's not too late

G        D/F#               C
 All the stupid things I've said

    D                      G
And people I've hurt in my time

       D/F#           D      C     D
Well I hope that it's not my fate

C          D      Bm      C
 To keep defeating my own self

C           D      B       Em
 And keep repeating yesterday

C        G/B    G       D
 I can't keep defeating myself

C        G/B    G      D/A    C
 I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth

G       D/F#            C
 In the dark of night I might

   D                   G
Be able to make myself think

         D/F#    D       C     D
That I'm still a younger man

G             D/F#                C
 But when the light of day shines down

        D                    G
There's no way to get around it

     D/F#    D       C     D
I am not the younger man

C         D      Bm      C
 I keep defeating my own self

C           D      B  B/D#  Em
 And keep repeating yesterday

C        G/B    G       D
 I can't keep defeating myself

C        G/B    G      D/A    C
 I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth

C    C/D    C/E D
 The choice is  mine for making

Bm         C
 A better road ahead

C     C/D  C/E  D
 The road that I've been taking

Bm      Bm/F#     Em
 Headed for a dead-end

C         G/B     G       D/A   C/G
 But it's not too late to turn around

G        D/F#          C
  In the final moments I

D                       G
Hope that I know that I tried

   D/F#   D      C      D
To do the best I could

C          D      Bm      C
 To stop defeating my own self

C           D      B  B/D Em  Em/D
 And stop repeating yesterday

C        G/B    G       D
 I can't keep defeating myself

C        G/B    G      D/A    C
 I can't keep repeating the mistakes of my youth