Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: It's Not My Birthday
Album: Miscellaneous T (Ep)


Verse 1:
          D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)             A (x02220@1)         
Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid
        D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)                  A (x02220@1)        
and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent
            D (xx0232@1)        G (320003@1)            Gmwhen (355333@1)this grey world crumbles like a cake
          D (xx0232@1)             BmI'll (x24432@1)be hanging from the hope
            G (320003@1)           E (022100@1)      A (x02220@1)
that I'll never see that recipe again

Verse 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 (xx0232@1)                   
It's not my birthday, it's not today
             D (xx0232@1)                     A (x02220@1)         
it's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me
          D (xx0232@1)        Am (x02210@1)        Em (022000@1)          Awhen (x02220@1)the word comes down "Never more will be around"
        D (xx0232@1)                C (x32010@1)         D (xx0232@1)                Gthough (320003@1)I'll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear
        Em (022000@1)          G (320003@1)             A (x02220@1)  
and I'm not the only dust my mother raised

Bridge:
         D (xx0232@1)                          D7 (xx0212@1)            
So I'm rattling the bars around this drink tank discreetly
          G (320003@1)                          E (022100@1)         A (x02220@1)
I should pour through the keyhole or evaporate completely
            D (xx0232@1)                          D7but (xx0212@1)there'd be no percentage and there'd be no proof
          G (320003@1)                         E (022100@1)     Aand (x02220@1)the sound upon the roof is only water

Verse 3:
And the the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid         
and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent
when this grey world crumbles like a cake
I'll be hanging from the hope
that I'll never see that recipe again

Chorus:
It's not my birthday, it's not today          
it's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me
when the word comes down "Never more will be around"
though I'll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear   
and I'm not the only dust my mother raised
I am not the only dust my mother raised