My Adulthood

MY ADULTHOOD
Del Amitri

Capo 4

Em	|G	|C	|Am	|Em

          Em            G            C         Am
I’ve been living like a child all my adulthood
              D                Em
Waiting for a man to take my place
                     G                     C         Am
There’s a river of denial, runs through my adulthood
  D                        Em
I don’t know who owns this face

     Em           G         C         Am
I’ve wasted every day of my adulthood
                         D          Em
I’ve spilled it on the ground like rain
                          G      C         Am
I don’t know when this became my adulthood
      D                       Em
Since I refused to change a thing

   C                    Am
My adulthood is just a name I took
         D                   C
From the other adults that I saw
       Am                C
Little did I know nobody ever grows
             Em                        C     D
They just pretend that it’s all like before

       Em              G          C         Am
And we pass the silent days of my adulthood
                 D                   Em
Not even mirror shades can hide that truth
                   G           C         Am
I thought I’d run away from my adulthood
   D                      Em
So I’d escape the cage of my youth

   C                    Am      
My adulthood is a masquerade I took
         D                   C
From the other adults that I knew
       Am                C
Little did I know nobody ever grows
          Em                   C
They just carry on as children too
       Am             D                              C
Like I carried all my adulthood this thing I have to do
           Am
Suspend my adulthood
         C              D         Em
So every day I could be free from you

Transcribed by Americo Jimenez