Misc Musicals – The Lightning Thief - The Last Day Of Summer (Guitar)

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(E is played as a barre chord on fret 7) [Intro] B [Verse 1]
B
What do you do when the quest has ended?

B
What do you do when the battle's won?

B
So many questions left unanswered

B
So many things still left undone

E
What do you do when it's up to you to choose:

                         B
Has something ended or begun?
Stay or go? Pick one [Verse]
B
Do I stay because it's safer?

B
Back to the home I left behind?

        B
I could stay and train for a piece of the action

B
  But what about peace of mind?

     E
Ugh! What's my deal? Why do I feel

        E                              F#
There's something left I still need to find?
[Chorus]
N.C.         E
Where do you go when it's over?

            B              E
What do you do when you've come to

                B       Bsus4
The last day of summer?
[Interlude]
           B
Attention, campers. It's the last day of summer.

                 Bsus4                                  E
If you intend to make me miserable year-round, please inform us by sundown.

                                                    B
Otherwise, the cleaning harpies will eat anyone who remains!

                 Bsus4                      B/G#
Perry Johanssen, this means you! It's Percy Jackson! Whatever!

Bsus4                       B
      How come you don't go home?

         B/F#       B                    Bsus4
I tried.      Once. My dad couldn't deal with the monster attacks,

    B                   E
And my stepmom couldn't deal with me. It's just asking for trouble.

                                       B
Sometimes family is worth the trouble.   Believe me.

                Bsus4                 B         F#
I guess we both have a choice to make,  Seaweed Brain.
[Chorus]
N.C.         E
Where do you go when it's over?

            B              E
What do you do when you've come to

                G#m
The last day of summer?
[Interlude]
N.C.                      Bm
Luke! If it isn't the big hero!

                                                        G
I've barely seen you since I got back, you avoiding me?! Not at all.

                Em
Tough last day? I thought when I finished my quest,

                                             Bm
Everything would make sense. But it doesn't. It's the last day of summer,

                         G
But I don't feel like anything's over. I get it.

        Em
My quest was supposed to be the biggest thing in my life.

                    Bm/D                         C#5            Bm
I came back changed.  But the rest of camp was exactly the same.
[Bridge] N.C. Chiron always says our parents made camp as this safe magic space
Bm
   The truth: it's so they don't have to see us

Bm
They won't bother to show their face

     E
It's time to make the world our own

                         F#    F#/G
Time someone put them in their place
N.C. Ares thought we were starting a war between the gods, but it was bigger than that. N.C. It's about wiping them out - and taking our turn! N.C. You're the lightning thief! [Interlude]
C#5                              C#5
    The Oracle warned you. "Betrayed by a friend"

        C#5             C#5                    E5
You set me up. You were trying to free Kronos.   Why?

                         G5
He promised me the power to defeat our parents"!

     F#5
He's using you! To get back at the gods! Good!
[Bridge]
E
  I've been here since I was a kid

      G#m
I did everything they ever asked, yeah I did

              A5
And for what? You know this world will never be ours

             B                        B/G#
          As long as our parents rule over the stars
(What do you do on the last day of summer?)
           B5
So I'll do anything
(Summer, summer, summer, summer...)
                       E
I don't care if I hurt anyone

                       G#5
It doesn't pay to be a good kid

                   A
A good kid, a good son
[Outro]
                    B
The gods were never on our side

                        E
So I think it's time we watch them fall

                         G5
And soon you'll see what I did

                           F#
Soon they'll be no gods at all!