[Verse]
DGDD7D7sus4Don't take the following words as reverence for tradition
EmGDEm7GI've learned to pick my battles by losing most I've fought
DGDD7D7sus4The more mores subverted, the more I sense I'm missing
EmGDEm7GDEm7GAnd I'll always do it my way, even if it's just the same way I was taught
DEm7GDD7D7sus4I'll bring home the bread, and you'll stay home and bake it
Em/F#EmGDEm7GWeeding out the garden where the milestones gather moss
DEm7GDD7D7sus4Crack a smile at my vows and whisper, “wow, can you believe we really made it?”
Em/F#EmGDD7D7sus4As I give up on dodging rice and fold my cape, I say “obviously not.”
[Chorus]
Em/F#EmGDD7D7sus4But I want to be just like my parents before I was born
Em/F#EmGDEm7GDGOh, can we be just like my parents? Mmh
[Verse]
DEm7GDD7D7sus4I know you don't want kids, but think about a daughter
Em/F#EmGDEm7GWe could name her Gwendolyn, like mom would’ve called me
DEm7GDD7D7sus4I'm not sure yet myself, but I learned from a good father
Em/F#EmGDEm7GDEm7GYeah, I mean, sure, they messed me up, but I think that's just the gig
DEm7GDD7D7sus4And maybe it's just some hormones that kick in in your late twenties
Em/F#EmGDEm7GBut I have laid a lot of women, now I'd like to just lay down
DEm7GDD7D7sus4And marriage always scared me, but I'd like to have a last love
Em/F#EmGDD7D7sus4And love can last a pretty good long while. I've seen it around
[Chorus]
Em/F#EmGDD7D7sus4Oh, can we be just like my parents when I was young?
Em/F#EmGDEm7GDEm7GWhy can't we be just like my parents? Mmh
[Bridge]
DEdim7BmEm/F#EmGG/AGmEm/F#EmGSo tongue out of my cheek now, I'm done pulling faces
DEdim7Iconoclasm wanes, my cynicism tires.
BmEm/F#EmBut what do I know about forever, when so far I’ve been so fleeting?
GA7Babe, my frontal lobe’s done growing, this might just be how I’m wired.
Em/F#EmGBut now we're kissing before brushing, smile with our whole faces
DEdim7If you want a hyphen last name I guess I don't mind the cadence
BmEm/F#EmI've seen home videos, I was there back in the 80's
GA7And if I'm just them, and they back then could do it, why can't I?
[Chorus]
EmGDD7D7sus4Just like my parents in due time
EmGDEm7GDEm7GImagine me, just like my parents. Yeah, right!
[Outro]
DEm7GDD7D7sus4‘Cause I’ve made more mistakes than simple empty moments. Uohhh
Em/F#EmGDGEach one as out of character as you know I tend to be
DD7GGmThere’ll be scalpers at the cemetery gates, with all my would-be widows weeping. Ohh
Em/F#EmGDEm7GDEm7GI’d have forgotten all their names, so why should you remember me?
DGDD7D7sus4If we grow old together, will you talk to my headstone?
EmGDGG/AThat is assuming that I die first (which is fair), and assuming I don't leave
DGDD7D7sus4Close enough to forever, I guess, to prove what I hope
Edim7A7DEdim7BmEm/F#EmGG/AGmDI mean, otherwise how am I to believe?