B  C#m        E               F#
PA turnpike, northbound on a dark night
B            C#m            E           F#
Driving into Scranton for a difficult occasion
     E                  D#/E            E             C#m
When you first got your license we were nowhere to be found
      E             D#/E                  E            F#
I was just a little kid back then but you let me hang around
                B
But we'€re older now


[Chorus]
         F#                 G#m           E
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I hardly got to know you
      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids
B           F#              G#m             E
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids


[Verse 2]
    B                 C#m          E              F#
The grief starts when bumping into friends turned acquaintances
   B                  C#m
We stumble around the small talk
   E                      F#
We break the silence with Jameson
     E              D#/E
But once we were inseparable
             E            C#m
We were the only punks in town
         E             D#/E                E                        F#
We spent every weekend raisin' hell in the basement of your parents house
               B
But we'€re older now


[Chorus]
         F#                 G#m           E
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I hardly got to know you
      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids
B           F#              G#m             E
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids


[Bridge]
              C#m                      E
In someone's apartment, getting fucked up
    B                        G#m
To all our favorite records, drinking the cheap stuff
                C#m        E
We couldn'€t get enough of growing up
         E                 D#/E           E                   C#
I saw my childhood flash before me in the death of your closed eyes
        E             D#/E         E            F#
At your Irish wake we celebrate by trying not to cry


[Chorus]
B        F#                 G#m           E
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I hardly got to know you
      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids
B           F#              G#m             E
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
      B              F#                 E
I was always hanging out with the older kids


[Outro]
         B   F#
Farewell youth
         G#m  E
Farewell youth
         B  F#              G#m                E
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I hardly got to know you
         B   F#
Farewell youth
        G#m  E
Farewell youth
         B  F#              G#m                E
Farewell youth, I'€m afraid I hardly got to know you
              B              F#                 E
Because I was always hanging out with the older kids