The Freshman
(US Adult Alternative No. 1, 1997)
D - G -
Bm - A - G (2x)
D G
1. When I was young, I knew everything,
Bm
A G
and
she, a punk, who rarely ever took advice.
D G
Now I‘m guilt-stricken, sobbin‘ with
my head on the floor,
Bm A G
stopped a baby‘s breath and a
shoe full of rice, no.
Bm - A G
Can‘t be held responsible,
Bm - A G
she was touching her face.
Bm - A G
I
won‘t be held responsible,
Bm - A G
she fell in
love in the first place.
D - G
For the life of me, I
cannot remember
Bm G D
what
made us think that we were wise, and we‘d never compromise?
D - G
For the life of me, I cannot believe
Bm G
we‘d ever die for these sins, we
were merely freshmen.
+ D - G - Bm - A - G
D G
2. My best friend
took a week‘s vacation to forget her,
Bm A G
his girl took a week‘s worth
of valium and slept, and now
D G
he‘s guilt-stricken, sobbin‘with his head on the floor,
Bm G
thinks
about her now and how he never really wept, he said.
Bm - A G
Can‘t be held
responsible,
Bm - A G
she
was touching her face.
Bm - A G
I won‘t be held
responsible,
Bm - A G
she
fell in love in the first place.
D - G
For the life of me, I cannot remember
Bm G D
what
made us think that we were wise, and we‘d never compromise?
D - G
For the life of me, I cannot believe
Bm G
we‘d ever die for these sins, we
were merely freshmen.
+ Bm - G - D - A (4x) (Hey
yah eyah …) - - -
D G
3. We tried to wash our hands
of all of this,
Bm G
we‘d
never talk of our lacking relationships
D G
and
how we‘re guilt-stricken, sobbin‘ with our heads on
the floor,
Bm G
we
fell through the ice when we tried not to slip, we‘d say.
Bm - A G
Can‘t be held
responsible,
Bm - A G
she
was touching her face.
Bm - A G
I won‘t be held responsible,
Bm - A G
she
fell in love in the first place.
+ CHORUS (2x)
+ D G
We were merely freshmen. (2x) + D - G (2x)
(orig. = capo 2nd) (The Verve
Pipe