Misc Musicals – Bare A Pop Opera - All Grown Up (Guitar)

Capo 4
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Am
Remember back in seventh grade?

Em
Endless games of truth or dare,

F
Double dates to Shea’s Arcades,

Em
When I close my eyes I’m there

Am
I think my mother took this picture

Em
Back when we were all just friends.

F
Memories that fade and flicker

Em
Burn again when I pretend.

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Am
Life is short and life is strange,

Em
Troubled now and troubled past.

F
Times have changed, they rearrange

Em
and little girls grow up so fast

Am
Feel it as it grows inside me,

Em
swirling ball of anguished cries,

F
Haunted, daunted, so unwanted.

Em
Feel it’s anger in me rise.

Dm                                 G
Dream a dream, then dash another,

C                       F
Life is there to interrupt.

Dm                              G
Someone out there, call my mother.

Am                        F
Look at me, I’m all grown up.

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Am
All those years she scrimped and saved,

Em
And now, of course, it comes to this.

F
“If only Ivy had behaved,"

Em
Or learned to stop at just a kiss.

Am
It hits me, paralyzing shudder,

Em
Face the music, take a bow.

F
Just another unwed mother,

Em
One more sad statistic now.

Dm                                 G
Dream a dream, then dash another,

C                              F
Life is there to interrupt.

Dm                                      G
Someone out there, call my mother.

Am                        F
Look at me, I’m all grown up.

Em
Look at me, I’m all grown up…

F#m                   C#m
Little lies and big decisions,

F#m                       C#m
Who to tell, and where to go,

F#m                        Bm
Follow someone else’s vision,

C#
Or trust my own, cause I don’t know!

F#m                          C#m
Am I supposed to love this child?

F#m                 C#m
Is it just that simple, then?

F#m                                Bm
Tell me how this change will happen,

G#
Tell me how and tell me when!

C#
Tell me how and tell me when!

F#m                                B
Dream a dream, then dash another,

E                               A
Life is there to interrupt.

F#m                     B
Someone out there, tell my mother.

E                         G#
Look at me, I’m all grown up.

F#m                   B
Story ends in total damage.

E                                    A
It’s an unforgiving world.

F#m                        B
Seventeen, how will I manage?

E           G#
How can I?

            C#m
I’m just a girl.
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