Back When I Was 4 Acordes

* = single strum, the rest is the above pattern.
 
[Verse 1]
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Back when I was 4 and I knew the name of every dinosaur 
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I knew how to read ROM comic books 
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My babysitter said I was really smart 
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When the lights went out everything changed
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The radio music made me feel strange 
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And I had a real bad dream about a gorilla in the bathroom 
 
[Verse 2]
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Back when I was 6 I took everything real serious 
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And I thought that every song that came on the radio 
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Was referring to strange sexual acts 
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Because they thought I wouldn't know the facts 
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And being small is hard and no one ever tells you how 
 
[Chorus]
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And back when I was 8 I'd sit outside on an old milk crate 
      A                              G
And look out at the world from the stoop across the street 
     A
The boomboxes and the hot concrete 
      G
And every Halloween they hung
     A                       G
A million rubber skeletons across ninth street. 
 
[Verse 3]
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And back when I was 12 or so I swear to god I never felt so low 
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Everyone but me was making out and eating cookies 
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I had more than my brain could stand 
           D
I threw my life in a garbage can 
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I felt so weird 
A
I had to disappear 
G         D
In crying suicide disease. 
 
[Verse 4]
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And at 15 getting stoned felt good and it sent me back to childhood 
D                A              G             D
And nothing ever mattered to me more than that
D           A
But then 16 became eclipse 
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My brain became apocalypse 
D                             A          G        D
I was lost and found and I've never been the same
 
[Verse 5]
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And back when I was 22 I left the best thing that I knew 
      A                             G
and I gave it up for fortune and for fame 
A
I played like I didn't know how 
G
I shocked the world I wowed the crowd 
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But I deserved more than what they gave 
 
[Verse 6]
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Back when I was 27 still nothing had been forgiven 
D                    G                 G D
Clay turns into rock and rock just sits 
D              A         G
So sitting on a crowded beach 
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I'd pretend I was a leach 
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And stick to things here and there for a little bit 
 
[Verse 7]
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Back when I was 31 I knew I'd become what I'd become 
D                 A
Nothing left to reveal 
G                             D
And there was nowhere else to turn 
D                     A
So shocked and withered dumb and bitter 
G                D
And in need of a babysitter 
D                 A          G      D
I'd gladly let my hand fall off and burn burn burn 
 
[Verse 8]
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Back when I turned the big 4-0 I realized just how much there was to go 
A
And I started to think that being alone forever 
G
Wasn't where it was at 
A
So I pulled my head out of the window 
G
And I taught myself how to love real fast 
A
I started talking about painting 
A      G
With a woman in the laundromat 
 
[Verse 9]
G        D         A        G                          D
And back when I was 50 and my first wife had just left me 
D           A
I felt okay and I sang my daughter 
G            D
Funny little songs 
D                        A
And just when I thought the best was past 
G                  D
I fell in love for real at last 
D                   A           G               D
And it didn't even matter that it had taken me so long 
 
[Verse 10]
D               A          G        D
And back when I was 63 the public rediscovered me 
D                  A                          G           D
My comic books and albums had all become rare cult-collector items 
D                  A
Both my parents were deceased 
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So they didn't see my records get re-released 
D                    A                   G    D
And I got a dog for the first time in my life 
 
[Verse 11]
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And back when I was 74 my dog died and I got two more 
A                                       G
I still felt really good about my daughter 
G
And also about my girlfriend 
A
And I'd sing and draw a little bit 
G
But mostly I'd wake up early and sit 
A                                 G
And hang out with the puppies and wish that I could live forever 
 
[Verse 12]
D                   A      G                D
And back when I was 87 and my grandson had just turned eleven 
A
My woman was dead 
A                       G           D
And my dogs were getting pretty old 
D  E7               A
My body didn't work quite like it should 
G            D
But overall things were pretty good 
D                    A                  G                     D
I was getting decent royalties from the reissued comic books and records 
 
[Verse 13]
D*                  A*
And back when I was 106 
G*
My only friend 
        D*
Was one goldfish 
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Everyone I ever knew was dead and gone 
    D*                 A*
And the goldfish never had a name 
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And the neighbors thought I was insane 
D*                                    A*                       G*
And I flushed it down the toilet when I saw it floating upside down 
 
[Chorus]
A                       G                               A
And back when I was 128 I'd sit outside on an old milk crate 
A                                  G
And look out at the world from the stoop across the street 
A                               G
The boomboxes and the hot concrete 
G
And every Halloween they hung 
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A million rubber skeletons across 9th street 
D          A
Every Halloween they hung 
G         D
A million rubber skeletons 
D          A         G
Every Halloween they hung 
G           D
A million rubber skeletons 
D          A           G
Every Halloween they hung 
G                D
A million rubber skeletons
 
[Outro]
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