Older Guys Chords by Nina Nesbitt

Intro | C F | C |


C               F                 C  G/B
 Look at us, we made it out alive
Am                         F              
 Those were the years that I learnt to survive
C                      F           C     G/B
 Maybe youth ain't the time of our lives
Am    F           C       F
 They just romanticise it
              F                 C  G/B
 Met you at a party on Halloween
Am                    F          C  F
 You were studying at university
              C            F                     C
 And all your friends would laugh and joke about me
     G        Am           F                   C
 But I didn't mind being a punchline at sixteen


                      F     G
I liked that you were older
                  Am           C
But at the time I didn't understand
                         F     G 
It's 'cause you held the power
                       Am                 C
And I thought love was meant to feel like that
                 F        G
All the things I gave you
                   Am                      C
Now I wish I could take them all right back
                  F         G
'Cause I wasn't a woman yet
               Am    C
But you were a man
             F      G            C
I was just a girl in love with a man


C                   F                  C    G/B
 And it felt like a twisted game you'd play
Am                    F              C
 Of who could take my innocence away
     F        C
 But it wasn't yours
     F              C    G/B
 No, never yours to claim
                  Am           F                  C
 I thought that to love was to give yourself away


                F     G
It sent me into orbit
                 Am             C
Knowing that you wanted me like that
           F         G
Didn't see a problem
                  Am             C
It's only now I'm older, looking back
             F          G
Made me feel so special
             Am              C
Now the only thing I feel is mad
                F           G
'Cause I wasn't a woman yet
               Am  C
But you were a man
         F           G
I wasn't a woman yet, but now I am


Dm
 You'd pick me up in your car
        F
We'd go speeding down the lanes
                Dm
I'd meet you in town
                          F
With my fake ID, claiming I was 23
            Dm
To get into bars
          
I'd never felt so cool and
F                                Dm
Now I know you probably knew that I
                       F
Would do anything to impress you
          Dm                      F
And now I wonder, is that how they get you?


                   F        G
They say that your youth is
                Am           C
Meant to be the time of your life
              F           G
But I feel fucking stupid
                  Am          C
That I was crying over older guys
                     F        G
Bet they don't think about it
                   Am            C
Wish I knew what I know now back then
                F           G
'Cause I wasn't a woman yet
               Am  C
But you were a man
          F         G            C
I was just a girl in love with a man