The Menzingers – Farewell Youth (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)

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[Verse 1]

B  C#m        E               F#
PA turnpike, northbound on a dark night

B            C#m            E           F#
Driving into Scranton for a difficult occasion

     E                  D#/E            E             C#m
When you first got your license we were nowhere to be found

      E             D#/E                  E            F#
I was just a little kid back then but you let me hang around

                B
But we're older now

[Chorus]

         F#                 G#m           E
Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you

      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids

B           F#              G#m             E
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what

      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids

[Verse 2]

    B                 C#m          E              F#
The grief starts when bumping into friends turned acquaintances

   B                  C#m
We stumble around the small talk

   E                      F#
We break the silence with Jameson

     E              D#/E
But once we were inseparable

             E            C#m
We were the only punks in town

         E             D#/E                E                        F#
We spent every weekend raisin' hell in the basement of your parents house

               B
But we're older now

[Chorus]

         F#                 G#m           E
Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you

      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids

B           F#              G#m             E
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what

      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids

[Bridge]

              C#m                      E
In someone's apartment, getting fucked up

    B                        G#m
To all our favorite records, drinking the cheap stuff

                C#m        E
We couldn't get enough of growing up

         E                 D#/E           E                   C#
I saw my childhood flash before me in the death of your closed eyes

        E             D#/E         E            F#
At your Irish wake we celebrate by trying not to cry

[Chorus]

B        F#                 G#m           E
Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you

      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids

B           F#              G#m             E
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what

      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids

[Outro]

         B   F#
Farewell youth

         G#m  E
Farewell youth

         B  F#              G#m                E
Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you

         B   F#
Farewell youth

        G#m  E
Farewell youth

         B  F#              G#m                E
Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you

              B              F#                 E
Because I was always hanging out with the older kids