G (320003@1)       Em (022000@1)       Bm (x24432@1)      DSo, (xx0232@1)she stands and waits, and waits at the school gate.
         G (320003@1)        Em (022000@1)     Bm (x24432@1)     C (x32010@1)                C#dimThey're (3423xx@1)late. They come, so dumb, in two cars when they agreed one,
C (x32010@1)         C#dim (3423xx@1)    C (x32010@1)  And it's gone wrong, on her birthday.
G (320003@1)      Em (022000@1)   Bm (x24432@1)      DSo, (xx0232@1)they go to Joe's for pizza and ice cream.
      G (320003@1)     Em (022000@1)       Bm (x24432@1)        C (x32010@1)                   C#dimThey (3423xx@1)sit and stare, and Claire just wants to be nine-and-a-half.
C (x32010@1)          Em (022000@1)                  G6 (320000@1) Next year, she'll tell them she only wants world peace.

D/G- (300232@1)G/C (2431xx@7)    D/G- (300232@1)G/CBut (2431xx@7)Claire, Claire baby,
  Bm/G     Bm (x24432@1)          D (xx0232@1)     Cmaj7I (x32000@1)wish you knew how this all got twisted.
  Bm/G     Bm (x24432@1)        D (xx0232@1)   Cmaj7I (x32000@1)wish you could see right inside us.
Bm/G        Bm (x24432@1)        D (xx0232@1)   Cmaj7 (x32000@1)   D (xx0232@1)       G/DSome (4x3121@7)of the stuff, the best of us, that we can't get out.

G (320003@1)         Em (022000@1)     Bm (x24432@1)         D (xx0232@1)                      
What's the point of this? What's wrong with two birthdays?
      G (320003@1)       Em (022000@1)        Bm (x24432@1)         CIt's (x32010@1)cool. At school, her friends, they all have two birthdays.
    Em (022000@1)      C (x32010@1)                    Em (022000@1)      CAw (x32010@1)jeez. He just asked the waitress out on a date on her birthday.

D/G- (300232@1)G/C (2431xx@7)    D/G- (300232@1)G/CBut (2431xx@7)Claire, Claire baby,
  Bm/G     Bm (x24432@1)          D (xx0232@1)     Cmaj7I (x32000@1)wish you knew how this all got twisted.
  Bm/G     Bm (x24432@1)        D (xx0232@1)   Cmaj7I (x32000@1)wish you could see right inside us.
Bm/G        Bm (x24432@1)        D (xx0232@1)   Cmaj7 (x32000@1)   D (xx0232@1)       G/DSome (4x3121@7)of the stuff, the best of us, that we can't get to.

INTERLUDE
D/G - D/Em - D/Bm - D (x2)
Gmaj7 - Gmaj7/Em - Gmaj7 - Gsus4 - G (x2)

G6 (320000@1)                    Bm (x24432@1)                                  G6Here's (320000@1)the check. They pay, with two cards like they've never met.
             Bm (x24432@1)       CGoodbyes (x32010@1)outside. It's cold in L.A.

D/G- (300232@1)G/C (2431xx@7)    D/G- (300232@1)G/CClaire, (2431xx@7)Claire baby,
  Bm/G     Bm (x24432@1)          D (xx0232@1)     Cmaj7I (x32000@1)wish you knew how this all got twisted.
  Bm/G     Bm (x24432@1)        D (xx0232@1)   Cmaj7I (x32000@1)wish you could see right inside us.
Bm/G        Bm (x24432@1)        D (xx0232@1)   Cmaj7Some (x32000@1)of the stuff, the most of us,
        Bm/G    Bm (x24432@1)        D (xx0232@1)       Cmaj7You're (x32000@1)what we were. We're all that's left.
   Bm/G    Bm (x24432@1)    D (xx0232@1)     Cmaj7It (x32000@1)used to be our birthday too.