Nick Blaemire
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Verse
D Bm D
I know running away's a way to avoid a reality where a void sits,
Bm D
and hits hard on your high hopes for happiness.
D Bm
But why would I stay if reality is already faking it in the first place,
D Bm Bm11
and I could stay singular and mingle with the wilderness?
Bm
That's a fantasy,
Bm
that's good for me,
Bm
cause usually,
Verse
D Bm D
People are perfectly fine until you finally get to know them,
Bm D Bm
and when they show you colors you preferred they hadn't showed then,
D Bm
you're stuck with the truth of the matter that'll shatter any friendship;
Bm D Bm11
you makeup, you break up, so let's drop the fake friend shit.
Bm Bm Bm
I fantasize 'till I realize that it's no surprise ....
[Refrão] D Bm
I'd rather be with the trees,
Bm
you know what I mean.
D Bm
The green smoke filters through the breeze,
D
and blow dries me clean of the mess,
D
and the stress,
D
from societies, and families
N.C.
cause please,
Verse
D Bm
In civilization everyone thinks the problem's somebody else's,
D Bm Bm11
She hurts him and then who's fault is it, who else, his.
D Bm
But nobody knows 'till after the fact the problem's probably theirs too.
D Bm Bm11
So why try and civilize if no one else cares to?
Bm
It's a mountain to climb,
Bm
every time and that's why
Bm
I'm ....
[Refrão]D Bm
Hanging out with the trees
Bm
they don't say a word,
D Bm
they heard every single one of my pleas,
D
and then they confer with their leaves,
D
and relive me from policies, and hypocrisies...
Bridge
D
When you freeze for a second
D G
in a world that's beckoning you to go prove something,
G
to go be something.
D
It's like please, for a minute
D
I'm too deep down in it
G
to go be something, so
G D C
I'll go be...
E
With the tress!!
[Refrão] E
I'll sit on my throne
C#m E
in my branches and breathe with ease,
C#m E
and I'll be alone and be free
E
from hyperbole unlike every other day,
D#dim E
in human history......
F#m
So I'd rather be...
E A
I'd rather be,
E
With the trees!!!
Outro
C#m
Well right now I'm
C#m
quite sublime
N.C.
though I know..
E C#m
Running away's a way to avoid a reality
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