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- It's Not My Birthday by They Might Be Giants
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- [Convention: each chord is two beats/half a measure. A dash indicates that
- the chord is held for another two beats; two chords with a slash between
- them are held for one beat/a quarter of a measure each.]
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- 1.
- D G A -
- Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid
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- D G A -
- and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent
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- D G Gm
- when this grey world crumbles like a cake
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- D Bm
- I'll be hanging from the hope
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- G E A -
- that I'll never see that recipe again
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- 2.
- As I walk I think about a new way to walk
- as I think I'm using up the time left to think
- and this train keeps rolling off the track
- trying to act like something else
- trying to go where it's been uninvited
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- Chorus:
- D - - -
- It's not my birthday, it's not today
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- D - A -
- it's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me
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- D Am Em A
- when the word comes down "Never more will be around"
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- D C D G
- though I'll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear
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- Em G A -
- and I'm not the only dust my mother raised
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- Bridge:
- |: D - D7 -
- So I'm rattling the bars around this drink tank discreetly
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- G - E A :|
- I should pour through the keyhole or evaporate completely
- but there'd be no percentage and there'd be no proof
- and the sound upon the roof is only water
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- (Repeat verse 1)
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- (Chorus)
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- Coda:
- G A D -
- I am not the only dust my mother raised
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- -E.M.
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