Saboteurs

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One year we flew up to Alaska
All the scenery was gorgeous
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And the people all so pleasant what a place
G
  Might have been our one chance
To experience it firsthand
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All the culture and the beauty of the state
But when we arrived I
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Couldn’t bring myself to leave the car
                              Em
Stayed locked away with my guitar
And while the others
Studied the mountains and the rivers
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I just stared down at my fretboard, pad and pen

                 G
Lately I’ve been struggling to conjure up
A band aid for this problem
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That has freshly manifested in my brain
            G
It seems as though I’ve grown a light switch
Deep within the recess of my psyche
       Em                            D
One if flipped renders me borderline insane
It’s like ten seconds ago
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  Everything was fine and dandy
        G             Em
But now everything is fucked
          Em
And there ain’t no rhyme or reason for my seething
       C          D             G
I just wanna be okay but I feel stuck

        G
I don’t get to see the family often
Always on road
        Em
So, one year we organized a trip
     C                   G
We’d take to Lake Tahoe
A place we’d been when I was younger
                      Em
All the memories are golden
D
  But when we arrived I
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 found myself down at the bar
                           Em
Black out drunk and seeing stars
While my loved ones
All played board games by the fire
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I did drink myself within an inch of death

        G
I’m no stranger to mistakes
It feels like every step I take
          Em                            C
I trip myself I can’t get out of my own way
       G
I’m by far my harshest critic and a cynic
                  Em
Too neurotic to accept that sometimes
                D
Shit is just o-kay
There's always gotta be
C                         G
Some problem I alone must solve
                                Em
But that just ain’t the case at all
Cause I got friends and family
                      C
But my worst enemy is me
            D               G
And me just can’t escape my head

            C
Cause I was born to sabotage myself
     G
Well that's on me and no one else
      Em
I’m a human grenade
                D
And I’m good at pullin’ my own pin
        C
You can blame it on my mental health
G
Addictions, stress and anything else
Em
All it boils down to
Is I’m an asshole with a loud mouth
      C         D               G
And a system of support I don’t deserve

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