California

Intro:
   Ab   Absus2
   Ab   Absus2
   Ab

Verse 1:
Ab7
Waste a month, waste a year

Waste the time you could've been here
Ab7
Count the debt, count the tears

Count the truths and all of my fears

Pre-Chorus 1:
Eb
I didn't want to be cynical

Passing place for the soul
Cm
You were never predictable

Now I need to let it go

Verse 2:
Ab7
Found the song, played it back

Heard your voice under the feedback
Ab7
Found a tape that was blank

Saw your face fading into black

Pre-Chorus 2:
Eb
I know love is delusional

And I hate when I'm wrong
Cm
Yours was never conditional

And now I need to get it gone

Chorus:
Ab7
No one еver warns ya
Fmadd9
You'll die in California
Eb
Falling in a dream, you lеt, let go
Cm
No one ever seems to say, say so
Ab7
No one ever tells ya
Fmadd9
There's freedom in the failure
Eb
Dying in a dream feels like home
Cm
No one ever seems to say, say so

Instrumental: Ab7 Fmadd9 Eb Cm

Verse 3:
Eb
Close my eyes, close my heart

Close the book I never meant to start
Ab7
Say your name in the dark

No one said it would be this hard

Pre-Chorus 3:
Eb
I didn't go to the funeral

Heard you cry on the phone
Cm
Your voice was so beautiful

And now I need to let it go

Chorus:
Ab7
No one ever warns ya
Fmadd9
You'll die in California
Eb
Falling in a dream, you let, let go
Cm
No one ever seems to say, say so
Ab
No one ever tells ya
Fmadd9
There's freedom in the failure
Eb
Dying in a dream feels like home
Cm
No one ever seems to say, say so

Instrumental: Ab7 Fmadd9 Eb Cm

Bridge:
Bb
God bless this mess that we made ourselves
Cm                 Ab
Pull me into the screen at the end and
Bb
God bless this mess that we made for ourselves
Cm                   Ab
Pull me into the screen at the end

Outro:
Ab
Fmadd9                                   Eb
Pull me into the screen at the end
Cm                                   Ab
Pull me into the screen at the end
Fmadd9                        Eb
To the screen at the end