C
Making plans is like making the bed,
    G                      Am
You know they're gonna get messed up yet.
    C
And all your dreams and all your hopes,
            G                        Am
They'll get spent like money, blown away like smoke.
    C                               G              Am
But if I truly felt like this was so I'd have quit years ago.

               F                        G                                        C
So if I've got bad luck at least it's my luck and I can take it with me when I go.


[Verse 2]
     C
Well life is maths and life is debt
    G                   Am
And I'm still living in deficit.
    C
And I want to graph out of the red
    G                    Am
And get my head into the clouds again.
    C                                     G              Am
But life lived without money is better than a life lived with regret.

                F                           G
So if that's my good luck I guess it's my luck.


[Chorus]
       F              C
'Cause All those mysteries of youth
         G                              C
They get solved by the years now you're living proof
       F               C
Of good seeds grown to fallow fields
               G                            C
And now you're starving down here with your ribs revealed.
    F                  C
And all your old loves became wives
      G                        C
Of an unimpassioned population hugging the white line.
    F                            C
You could have gone east and you could have gone west
        G                           F
But you stuck to the middle so they made you the best man.

                      C
They made you the best man.


[Verse 3]
   C                                       G
So if you lose it once you can find it twice
                  Am
Just hold on tight this time.
    C
But if you burn like me inside
     G                Am
I know you'll never be satisfied.
     C
Just don't spead yourself too thin kid
        G                     Am
Or there'll be little left of anything.

                     F                            G
And that would be bad luck, yeah that would be bad luck


[Chorus]
       F              C
'Cause All those mysteries of youth
         G                              C
They get solved by the years now you're living proof
       F               C
Of good seeds grown to fallow fields
               G                            C
And now you're starving down here with your ribs revealed.
    F                  C
And all your old loves became wives
      G                        C
Of an unimpassioned population hugging the white line
    F                            C
You could have gone east and you could have gone west
        G                           F
But you stuck to the middle so they made you the best man.

                                  C
Yeah, they made you the best man.


[Instrumental]

F C G C x2

F C G F

C


[Chorus]
         F                      C
Oh and a life without fire is a firing squad,
        G                              C
I'm not going to heaven because I've never known God.
      F                  C
But I do believe there's something more
      G                            C
And I do have a clue what I've been looking for.
        F              C
Yeah one day I want to find the breach
            G                                C
Between the things that I want and the things that I need
    F                C
And when I get there will I know?
        G                F
Well I'm thinking that I don't think so.

                                      C
I just don't want to be the best man.


[Verse 4]
C
Just when you think you've got nothing left
   G                Am
To write about well here she comes.
    C                                             G
And just when you think you might've snared a good one
            Am
You're back on the run.
    C
But I'll keep breaking choices down
  G             Am
Untill I'm only left with one.