[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. - Well 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
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: - - - 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
Bridge: |: - - So I'm rattling the bars around this drink tank discreetly
- :| 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
