It's Not My Birthday by They Might Be Giants

[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.]



1.
          D          G               A          -
Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid

        D         G                    A         -
and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent

            D          G              Gm
when this grey world crumbles like a cake

          D               Bm
I'll be hanging from the hope

            G             E        A -
that I'll never see that recipe again



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



Chorus:
             D       -            -  -
It's not my birthday, it's not today

             D           -           A          -
it's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me

          D          Am          Em            A
when the word comes down "Never more will be around"

        D                  C           D                  G
though I'll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear

        Em            G               A   -
and I'm not the only dust my mother raised



Bridge:
|:       D           -                D7             -
So I'm rattling the bars around this drink tank discreetly

          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

(Repeat verse 1)

(Chorus)


Coda:
      G            A                D  -
I am not the only dust my mother raised


-E.M.