Back in the day Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]
When I was just a skinny lad
on holi[G]day by [D]the sea,
I met a girl in a Rancid shirt,
[A]and a tape she gave to me
With the Black [D]Flag First Four Years
and the Minor [C]Threat [Bb]Discography,
[Asus4]And punk [A]rock saved [G]my [D]life.
Going down the Red Eye back [G]in [D]1998,
Hanging out with Household Names
[A]and staying out too late,
[D]This angry adolescent found
an out[G]let for [Bb]his hate,
[Asus4]And punk [A]rock saved [G]my [D]life.
[G]The vision wasn't perfect and we knew [C]it all

[Verse 2]
along,
[G]We dressed like fucking idiots and got
[C]our facts all wrong.
[A]But everyone must needs be an extremist
[D]when they're young –
Fucking [G]with your parents makes [A]you grow up big
[D]and strong.

[Interlude 1]
[G][D]
[A][D][C][G][Bb][A]
[G][D]

[Verse 3]
Folding zines and record sleeves
while sitting [G]round [D]at home,
Flicking through the catalogues
[A]and distros at the shows,
[D]Circle pits and sing- a- longs,
[C]come on let's fuck[Bb]ing go,
[Asus4]And punk [A]rock saved [G]my life.
[Asus4]That little dream [A]is over, it

[Verse 4]
[Bm]
was never going to last.
[G]Everybody's moved along
and it's all in the past,
But when I [Asus4]was just [A]16 I pinned
my col[Bm]ours to the mast.
And punk rock's in [A]the
ink that's [G]in my skin,
The atti[Bm]tude in [A]every [G]song I sing,
And we didn't [Bm]change the world,
[A]we [G]didn't win,
We prob[Em]ably didn't even [F#m]save m[G]y life,
it's true
[A]But I b[Bb]et we had a b[C]etter time tha[D]n you.