You Avoid Parties Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

C Em

C Em G7

 Isn't it nice how things rCesolve

 To test your wFill would take the sGkill of crazy aCnts

 You fit your mind into smaFller and smaller jCars

 You find them clutching the last stEmraw

 As if it's worFth the worse for wGear and tear you lCook

 But wFhy try to understand someone that you don't even kCnow

Even though he brought you up, beat you up,

 SD7hut you up when you cried ?

 And now you avoid parCties

 Because thEmey remind you

 Of somFeone who

 yGou used to know

 Pretty soGon you'll want to aFvoid yourseClf

C Em

C Em G7

A popular phrase from the same year

Would draw no tears save for the fears of looking back

You find you hide for weaker and weaker reasons

The battle you lost in the mirror

Earned you no thanks but wooden planks were soon withdrawn

And you couldn't run away even if you tried

And you tried and you cried 'cause you knew that laying flat

In your parents' car

And now you avoid father

Because they remind you

Of someone who you used to know

Pretty soon you'll want to avoid your own

And now you're finally on your own

You draw your choices from the voices you despise

You find you're drawn to tighter and tighter circles

Flashbacks, flashes forward

You are insane though you have gained such wide appeal

And all the car rides, cheap insides, laughter at the right people

At the right time at the right line in the right frame of mind

And now you avoid thinking

Because it reminds you of someone you used to know

Pretty soon you'll only think about yourself

Outro

C Em F G C