TUNING: STANDARD
NO CAPO
--INTRO--
A A A A
(Let it ring, or pick a few notes, whatever you like; the pre-singing bit is just A)
--VERSE--
A
What is this about?
D
Where is everybody going?
A
What am I doing here?
D
Can't separate what I really need to know and
A
What I just want to hear
D
Maybe I'm alone maybe everybody's lost too
A
Looking for their own way out
D
Maybe I don't know maybe I don't even want to
--BRIDGE 1--
(A) F#m
Just don't want to be let down
C#m D A E F#m
There is no sureness, I kind of just stumble along
C#m D A E
There must be purpose in trying to keep on
--CHORUS--
D F#m
What do I know? I'm a child
E A*
Just trying to talk like a mother does
D F#m
Seeing life come and go all the time
E A*
It's never as long as you wish it was
D F#m
Ohh-ooh, Ohh-oh, Ohh-ooh, Maybe I'm
F#m E
still trying to see like a child does
--VERSE--
A F#m
And I always feel like I did when I was younger
D
Can't talk sense into me
A D
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How do you decide when to know or how to wonder
F#m
Or how to just get free
C#m D A E F#m
There's no certainty, I kind of just stumble along
C#m D A E
Doesn't bother me, I'm trying to keep on
--CHORUS--
D F#m
What do I know? I'm a child
E A*
Just trying to talk like a mother does
D F#m
Seeing life come and go all the time
E A*
It's never as long as you wish it was
D F#m
Ohh-ooh, Ohh-oh, Ohh-ooh, Maybe I'm
F#m E
still trying to see like a child does
--BRIDGE 2--
Bm
I seen both sides and felt it all
D F#m
I'm not a child anymore but I can't stand in here
E
The way I did when I was a kid
--CHORUS x2--
D F#m
What do I know? I'm a child
E A*
Just trying to talk like a mother does
D F#m
Seeing life come and go all the time
E A*
It's never as long as you wish it was
D F#m
What do I know? I'm a child
E A*
Just trying to talk like a mother does
D F#m
Seeing life come and go all the time
E A*
It's never as long as you wish it was
D F#m
Ohh-ooh, Ohh-oh, Ohh-ooh, Maybe I'm
F#m E
still trying to see like a child does
D F#m
Ohh-ooh, Ohh-oh, Ohh-ooh, Maybe I'm
F#m E A*
still trying to see like a child does