Seventeen Going Under Chords

[Intro]
G D Em  C     G
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
Em    D
I remember the sickness was forever
Em   C               G
I remember snuff videos
Em      D
Cold Septembers, the distances we covered
                Em     C                           G
The fist fights on the beach, the bizzies round us up
           Em        D
Do it all again next week
 
An embryonic love
               Em      C
The first time that it scarred
                       G
Embarrass yourself for someone
       Em     D
Crying like a child
 
And the boy who kicked Tom’s head in
      Em      C
Still bugs me now
                    G
That’s the thing it lingers
                          D
And claws you when you’re down
 
Em  C     G Em  D
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
I was far too scared to hit him
                         Em        C
But I would hit him in a heartbeat now
                      G
That’s the thing with anger
           Em      D
It begs to stick around
 
So it can fleece you of your beauty
                         Em      C
And leave you spent with nowt to offer
                            G
Makes you hurt the ones who love you
              Em           D
You hurt them like they’re nothing
 
Em  C     G
              Em           D
You hurt them like they’re nothing
 
Em  C     G D
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
See I spent my teens enraged
       Em     C
Spiralling in silence
                      G
And arm myself with a grin
                     Em      D
Cos I was always the fuckin’ joker
 
Buried in the humour
                  Em        C
Amongst the white noise and boys’ boys
                    G
Locker room talkin’ lads’ lads
            Em              D
Drenched in cheap drink and snide fags
 
A mirrored picture of my old man
            Em     C
Oh god the kid’s a dab hand
                               G
Canny chanter but he looks sad
         Em        D
God, the kid looks so sad
 
Em  C     G
         Em        D
God, the kid looks so sad
 
 
Em  C     G
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
Em           D
She said the debt, the debt, the debt
                                 Em
So I thought about shifting gear
            C
And how she wept and wept and wept
G
Luck came and died round here
Em       D
I see my mother
 
DWP see a number
                 Em    C
She cries on the floor encumbered
                    G
I’m seventeen going under
          Em         D
I’m seventeen going under
 
Em  C     G
          Em         D
I’m seventeen going under
 
Em  C     G
          Em         D
I’m seventeen going under
 
Em  C     G
          Em         D
I’m seventeen going under