Misc Originals – Charlie Hodgson - Vital Signs (Guitar)

      G
This year I lost a couple friends, but not how you'd expect

         C
They're all alive, nobody died, but I feel dead to them

Em                          D/F#
What the hell is happening? I turned 34

       C
And am more insecure than I have ever been before

         G
I'm too old for this, but I wished as the candles flickered on

       C
To go back in time in this life of mine and fix where I went wrong

         Em                               D/F#
I would shut my mouth or let it out, whatever shifts the course

   C
Of history that has led me to fall off of my horse

          G
But to regret it is pathetic, space and time's been good to me

         C
I have fears, but also a career, a flawless family

   Em                                 D/F#
A wife whose love is constant despite my variables

     C
Six strings that take the things I think and make them bearable

           G
Like this weight I can't shake that everyone is on the run

C
Cheers to the final frontier and set phasers to done

  Em                             D/F#
I used to be the party, now my guests are glued to phones

    C
The cups are flipped, the keg is kicked, and everybody's going...

G
Home

      C
Going home

Em                                D/F#
I swing, but I can't connect, better off being on the bench

               C
While they're rounding third and going home

    G
But I want more

     C
Than to keep score

          Em                                     D/F#
I want to take the few who are always true, tell them how much they mean

           C
How much I couldn't do or even get through if they weren't here for me

          G
I want to buy a van and pack them in and go see the country

     C
From Boston down to Austin and every city in between

     Em                                  D/F#
Just laughs and photographs and shots of liquor with locals

   C
No bullshit we all seem to get mistaken for normal

    G
Bonfires on the beach with each taking turns telling tales

C
Memories we share to scare the future from our trails

   Em                                D/F#
Connecting stars in hope that our reasons will be revealed

      C
Then laughing at the fact that someone else is at the wheel

     G
But forget the plan, I don't need a van, just give me a couch

  C
A couple brews, a toast or two, music to muse about

   Em                                     D/F#
Whistles and bells can go to hell, I just need my closest friends

   C
To make me feel alive and real and remind me that I'm not...

G
Dead

        C
No, I'm not dead

        Em     D/F#
I'm not dead

         C
I'm not dead

         G
I'm not dead

         C
I'm not dead

Em                                  D/F#
On the shore they find me shaking, rescue and resuscitate me

   C                      G
Because of them, I'm not dead