Thumbs

G                Em 
You hung up the phone 
      D                   C 
And I asked you what was wrong 
             Em            D 
Your dad has come to town 
               C 
He'd like to meet 
        G                    C 
I said, "You don't have to see him" 
    Em                            C 
But for whatever reason you can't tell him no 


      G             Em 
So we meet him at a bar 
          D              C 
You were holding my hand hard 
           G 
He ordered rum and coke 
               D            C 
I can't drink either anymore 
           G                  D 
He hadn't seen you since the fifth grade 
            Em                 C 
Now you're nineteen and you're five-eight 
         Em 
He said "Honey, you sure look great 
        D                                 C 
Do you get the checks I send on your birthday?" 


        Am 
I would kill him 
        D 
If you let me 
        Am 
I would kill him 
           D 
Quick and easy 
       Am              G 
Your nails are digging 
         D 
Into my knee 
        Em 
I don't know 
    D           C 
How you keep smiling 


             G 
I lovе your eyes 
      Em 
And he has thеm 
            G 
Or you have his 
       D     C 
'Cause he was first 
  G          C           Em 
I imagine my thumbs on the irises 
         D            C 
Pressing in until they burst 


           G 
I clear my throat 
     Em              D 
And say we ought to get home 
   C           G 
He offers us a ride 
  Em                 D         C 
I reply "No, that's alright" 
              Em 
And when we leave 
              C 
You feel him watching 
      G           D              C 
So we walk a mile in the wrong direction 


        Am 
I would kill him 
        D 
If you let me 
        Am 
I would kill him 
           D 
Quick and easy 
             Am        G 
Your nails are digging 
      D 
Into my knee 
        Em 
I don't know 
       D        C 
How you keep smiling 
        Em 
I don't know 
      D        C 
How you keep smiling 
        Em 
I don't know 
     D         C 
How you keep smiling 

Final: 

        D                         C 
I wanna take your face between my hands and say 
G              Em           D          C 
"You two are connected by a pure coincidence 
G                Em             D               C 
Bound to him by blood, but baby, it's all relative 
G                  Em         D                  C 
You've been in his fist ever since you were a kid 
G                     Em          D           C 
But you don't owe him shit even if he said you did 
G                 Em         D            C 
You don't owe him shit even if he said you did"