85 Why I Am Not A Teenager Chords
85 Why I Am Not A Teenager by The Magnetic Fields is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
C F C G C F
F G F G
Verse
C
You work like a robot
F
Making diddly-squat
C G
This is why I am not a teenager
C
They all talk down to you
F
Like they know what to do
F G
Are they trying to screw up your life
F G
Since they already blew their own?
C
But when I grow up
F
I'm going to run
C G
My own planetarium
C
I'll make the shows
F
All on my own
F G F G
The world will flock to see 'em
Verse
C
All that money they've got
F
They don't give you a jot
C G
This is why I am not a teenager
C
When you never get paid
F
And you never get laid
F G
And you're full of these stupid hormones
F G
And just then they come out with AIDS
C
But when I grow up
F
I'm going to be
C G
An underground film maker
C
I'll have my own
F
Backlot somewhere
F G F G
On my own half an acre
Verse
C
So they piss on your dreams
F
Then they muzzle your screams
C G
This is why I am not a teenager
C
Making ice cream on trucks
F
Shoveling horse products
F G
Washing dishes and making popcorn
F G
Toilets, oh the indignity!
Outro
C
Piss on your dreams
F
Muzzle your screams
C G
Why I am not a teenager
C
Piss on your dreams
F
Muzzle your screams
F G F G
Ahhh
C
Piss on your dreams
F
Muzzle your screams
C G
Why I am not a teenager
C
Piss on your dreams
F
Muzzle your screams
F G F G C
Ahhh