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[Verse 1]
          D
We're all kicking, we're all screaming
          G                   A
We're all sleeping at the wheel
          D
We're all California dreaming,
        G                 A
Playing house, and paying bills
D
We're all going through the motions,
     G               A
Just following the script
D
If we don't stop and smell the ocean boys,
   G                   A
We might just miss our ship
      Bm         G                      A        
Every last heart breaks when the summer snapshot fades
              Bm        G          A
Every teenage kiss ends way too soon


[Chorus]
D
It don't matter how long we're here
G                   A
It's never gonna be long enough
D
It ain't about the amount of years
G              A
It's about the amount of love
D                                         G              A
It don't matter if you're eighteen, forty-five or ninety-one
          Bm              A               G
We're all waiting for our moment in the sun
                    D
Everybody dies young
      G                 D      G
Oh yeah, everybody dies young


[Verse 2]
         D
From the moment that we're born
               G                A
Yeah, we start running out of sand
          D
You can't bargain with the mirror,
          G              A
You can't ever fight the hands
   Bm         G                   A
Of time flies by, like the 4th of July sky
                 Bm       G             A
When the morning sun high fives the moon


[Chorus]
D
It don't matter how long we're here
G                   A
It's never gonna be long enough
D
It ain't about the amount of years
G              A
It's about the amount of love
D                                         G              A
It don't matter if you're eighteen, forty-five or ninety-one
            Bm             A               G
While we're here we oughta have a little fun
                           D
'Cause everybody dies young
      G                 D      G
Oh yeah, everybody dies young


[Bridge]
D                      G            A
You only get one life, so you gotta live it
D                       G             A
You only get one heart, so you better give it
D                      G            A
You only get one life, so you gotta live it up
D
You only get one heart, one heart
G                   A
So you gotta get to givin' it up


[Chorus]
D
It don't matter how long we're here
G                   A
It's never gonna be long enough
D
It ain't about the amount of years
G              A
It's about the amount of love
D                                         G              A
It don't matter if you're eighteen, forty-five or ninety-one
   Bm              A                 G
No matter what we do, we're never done
                    D
Everybody dies young
      G                 D      G
Oh yeah, everybody dies young