Misc Musicals – Ordinary Days - Dont Wanna Be Here (Guitar)

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I grew up in, like, the middle of nowhere

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And I swore I would never go back

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My hometown was, like, the suburb of a suburb

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I actually lived on a cul-de-sac

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That’s literally a road that goes nowhere

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That’s the definition of dead end

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I said, “I can’t wait to learn

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To do a three-point-turn

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Because I don’t wanna be here"

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In four long years, I finished up with high school

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Graduated top of my class. (Thank you!)

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But in college, I discovered that devising my own major

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Was a bureaucratic pain in the ass

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I thought I’d re-contextualize Sartre

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But could only register for first-year French. Ha!

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Well, you should’ve heard my mom

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When I dropped le bomb

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And said, “I don’t wanna be here

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Now, I am not a negative person

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It’s just that I’ve always known that I had places to go

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Dreams to fulfill and ideas to discover

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They’re just never where I am

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So anyway, back at school

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I waited five semesters

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Till I could snag one of their random degrees

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I moved down south, ‘cause I heard everyone was hiring

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And they were. At the Applebee’s

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They fired me, like, three weeks later

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My sublet promptly, whoops, fell through

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As I checked into a hotel, I said, “It’s just as well

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Because I don’t wanna be here

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No, I don’t wanna be here.”

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And I, I was not a negative person

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So I packed up my bags, though I had no place to go

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I opened a map and said, “Show me my future!

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‘Cause it isn’t where I am!”

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I finally got a job

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Like everyone right out of school does

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I sat there at my cubicle

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Sending faxes, and that’s what my life was

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Oh, I went back home and said to my parents

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“I know what I’ve got to do.”

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And since I am a dork

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I moved to New York...

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And I started grad school

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I really don’t wanna be here