Young Fathers Lyrics

Verses are played in this special rhythm:
I was born in September
and like everything else, I can't remember
I replace it with scenes from a film that I will never make
When I blinked it was over
I was thinking my life will get slower
That I will sort this sh*t out when I'm sober
It's even better now that you're older
I read the scares on the front page
It says we're waiting around for an ice age
It says our comforts they come with a price tag
They killed the cancer but discovered a new plague
* no guitar (if you play alone, sounds better with guitar or any ideas?)
*They said just think of the children
*and imagine the world that we've willed them
*It's populated with weirdos to kill them
*and break their hearts
And everybody knows
This is the end
It's now a fashionable, oh oh
dinner party conversation
There are several ways to play this part, here is one:
Now I'm as old as you were when you had me
Should I be afraid? Should I start a family?
I'd raise them in the wild 'cuz up against the city
My love is such a small thing
Interlude (picked):
(strummed)
When you're young you're hot
You have your whole life before you
Everyone will adore
You'll grow up, you'll be an astronaut
or anything you want.
What goes up goes up in flames
and now your choices surround you
and decision confounds you
and you're pacing around in place
Shows you everything you're not
* no guitar (if you play alone, sounds better with guitar)
*And in a brief, little romance
*you've committed a soul without its consent
*Delivered life as a form without its content
because young people get bo-o-o-ored everyday
yeah young people, young people get bo-o-o-ored
There are several ways to play this part, here is one:
Never went to church
thought a song was gonna save me
so I wrote a hymn on the guitar that you gave me
Singing what you spoke I built a fire with the smoke
You know that hope is just a small thing
(picked) (In original there's same melody as before continuing on other chords,
but I just play alternating bass-string and rest-strings like he plays in some live versions)
I just called to tell you
I just called to say
Learned all your mistakes
You were my inspiration
And it wasn't all we hoped for
But we shake it off and we say
Here's your yellow ribbon
I am your consolation
(strummed)
I was born in September
and if I die today
just know I don't regret you
some things I can explain (like)
It's a slow descent
It's a lifeless place
Every god damned day
and I know you know
no matter where you go
that I will follow, that I will follow
You are my only hope
It's not much, but it's all that I know
Here's how it goes
(strum on muted strings, beside first beat of every chord)
* I just called to tell you
* I just called to say
* Learned all your mistakes
* Passed down through generations