Maisie Peters – The Band And I (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
          D
We played Heads Up in a car in Seattle

    Bm
God rock on the radio

                A
You look like a superstar
And Dom got into Juilliard
                      G
And I'm really bad at Heads Up, what do you know?

           D
My drummer fell for a girl in a cookie shop

                   Bm
He said he'd make a move and then he went with, "Excuse me?"

               A
Came a boy and left a man
Gotta give it to the band
                G
Greatest one in Oregon (Oregon)
[Pre-Chorus]
Bm                      G
And looking back, all I know is
[Chorus]
       D
It was Friday nights, it was video gold

           A
Oh, it was shining lights, it was rock 'n' roll

           Bm
It was the band and I on a twelve-bed bus

           G
And it was making it, messin' it up

       D
It was endless roads in the same old boots

           A
Oh, it was letting go of everything but you

           Bm
It was the band and I on a twelve-bed bus

         G                                      D
If we're livin' the dream, I hope we never wake up
[Verse 2]
D
Snowstorm in the middle of Texas

          Bm
Called my mother in a Denny's and lied

                   A
Told her I've been eating, then 
Told her you were just a friend
                G
Told her I was homesick
I hadn't thought of home twice [Pre-Chorus]
Bm                               G
Driving and we drive again to an ocean

A
And I think I knew it then for a moment
[Chorus]
       D
It was Friday nights, it was video gold

           A
Oh, it was shining lights, it was rock 'n' roll

           Bm
It was the band and I on a twelve-bed bus

           G
And it was making it, messin' it up

       D
It was endless roads in the same old boots

           A
Oh, it was letting go of everything but you

           Bm
It was the band and I on a twelve-bed bus

         G                                      D
If we're livin' the dream, I hope we never wake up

                     A
I hope we never wake up

                     Bm
I hope we never wake up

                    G
I hope we never wake
[Verse 3]
D
Two nights in the El Rey went flying

    Bm
I'm twenty-one and I feel evergreen

                    A
The band go home, I stay to write
We drive around, I stay the night
                 G
Guys, I'm pretty sure it's the American dream
[Chorus]
       D
It was changing clocks, it was Tina stoned

           A
Oh, it was midnight stops at border control

             Bm
Yeah, it was powercuts, it was certain doom

       G
It was living in the Little Rock laundry room

           D
Oh, it was breaking down, it was falling in love

     A
In a gas station by the pick-up trucks

       Bm
In Philadelphia, it was crystal clear

           G
We are the best damn band that ever played right here
[Outro]
       D
It was magic babe, pure and strong

           A
It was the last man standing for the Eagles song

         Bm
It was a far flung wish when we were young

          G                                         D
Now we're living the dream and I hope we never wake up