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Verse
[Bm]Quick, quick
Tell me something awful like you are a [D]poet
Trapped inside the body of a finance[G]finance guy
Tell me all your secrets
All you’ll ever be is
My eternal consolation prize[Bm]prize
You see I was a debutant in another[D]another life, but
Now I seem to be scared to go out[G]outside
If comfort is a construct, I don’t believe in good luck
Now that I know what’s what
Chorus
I [D]hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
[Bm]People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
I [A]read about it in a book when I was a precocious [G]child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
[D]I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it he[Bm]here
I hate it here [A] [Bm]
Verse
[D]Is it romant[F#m]ic how all m[Em]y elegies e[Bm]ulogize me?
[D]I'm not cut o[F#m]out for all these c[Em]cynicalclones
[Bm]These hunters with cell phones
Chorus
[F#m] Take me to the Lakes where all [G]the poets went to die
I don't belong[Bm]belong and, my beloved, neither do [A/C#]you
[F#m] Those Windermere peaks look like [G]a perfect place to cry
I'm setting off,[A]off, but not without my muse
[G] [Em] [Bm] [Bm]
Bridge
I’m [A]lonely, but I’m good
I’m bitter, but I swear I’m fine
I’ll[G]I’ll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I’ll get[Em]get lost on
[Bm]purpose
This place made [G]me feel [D]worthless
[Em]Lucid dreams like electrici[Bm]electricity, the current flies through me and [G]in my
fantasies I rise [D]above it
And [G]way up there, I actually love it
[D]A red rose g[F#m]grew up out of i[Em]ice frozen ground
With [Bm]no one around to tweet it
[D]While I bathe in c[F#m]cliffside pools
With my ca[Em]calamitous love and insur[Bm]insurmountable grief
Chorus
[F#m] Take me to the Lakes where all [G]the poets went to die
I don't belong[Bm]belong and, my beloved, neither do [A/C#]you
[F#m] Those Windermere peaks look like [G]a perfect place to cry
I'm setting off,[A]off, but not without my muse
I [D]hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind
[Bm]People need a key to get to, the only one is mine
I [A]read about it in a book when I was a precocious [G]child
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
I [D]hate it here so I will go to Lunar valleys in my mind
[Bm]When they found a better planet Only the gentle survived
I [A]dreamed about it in the dark
The night I felt like I might [G]die
No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears
[D]I’m there most of the year ’cause I hate it he[Bm]here
Outro
So take me to the Lakes
I hate it here [A]
So take me to the Lakes
Take me to the [F#m]Lakes where all [G]the poets went to die
I don't belong[Bm]belong and, my beloved, neither do [A/C#]you
[F#m] Those Windermere peaks--
Look like[G]like a perfect place to cry
So I'm setting off,[A]off, but not without my [Em]muse
No, not without [D]you
