Thirty

	  		
Intro 
G F C 
G F C 

verse 1 
G 
There was a time 
Dm                              G          F 
When you put your hand on the small of my back 
C                          G 
I was surprised that you touched me like that 
     Gm                      Dm 
But there in your hand was a current of life 
Dm 
I could hardly stand 
I stayed still 
        G 
And I didn't mention it 
F                 C        G 
Or if I did, I made some joke of it 
G                           Gm       G 
It was strange how I could feel so sane 
So plain when you're around 

G Dm C G F C 

verse 2 
G 
And unbidden to me 
There it rose, the fantasy 
Colored rose and easy 
                            Dm 
Yeah, I could see it so simple, unsubtle 
Impossible, clearly 
G 
And strange 
Far and as close as a mountain range 
G 
On the horizon driving all day 
There I was, so sane 
So plain after everything 

Gm G C G C 

verse 3 
Gm 
Gas came down 
From a buck-twenty 
F 
The joke was how 
    C 
It broke the economy anyhow 
Gm 
The dollar was down 
F 
But my friends opened businesses 
      C 
There were new children 
Gm 
And again, I didn't get married 
F          Am          Gm 
I wasn't close to my family 
                                   F 
And my dad was raising a child in Nairobi 
         Gm 
She was three now, he told me 

verse 4 
Gm 
Gas stations I laughed in 
I noticed fucking everything 
The light, the reflections 
           Gm 
Different languages, your expressions 
         Gm 
We would fall down laughing 
 Gm 
Effervescent 
     Gm 
And all over nothing, all over nothing 


Just as though 
                F 
It was a joke my whole life through 
Em                     Gm 
All of the pain and sorrow I knew 
          C                       F 
All of the tears that had fallen from my eyes 
C 
I can't say why 
     G 
We walked in the park 
                Am 
Under the shade 
    F 
I avoided your eyes 
C                   G 
I was ashamed of my own mind 
C 
No SSRIs 
   G                   C 
My day is dark as your night 

Gm F C Gm F C 

Verse 5 
G 
Oh, you got 
The kindest of eyes 
                   C 
I cannot help but notice sometimes 
Gm 
But you know, as do I 
I cannot look twice without falling right 
C 
Into the sweet and the tender line between 
Gm 
Something I can and can never be 
C                   Gm 
And just then an ambulance 
Passed on the street 
                      F         C 
And you took my arm reflexively 

 
G 
That was the year I was thirty 
                           Gm 
That was the year you were thirty-one 
                                          C 
That was the year that we lost, or we won 
G 
That was the year I was thirty 
                           Gm 
That was the year you were thirty-one 
                                          C 
That was the year that we lost, or we won