Key: C
Introduction:
C F2
Stop the clock, take time out
C F2
Time to regroup before you lose the bout
C F2
Freeze the frame, back it up
C F2
Time to refocus before they wrap it up
G Dm/F G Dm/F G
Years are getting shorter, lines on your face are getting longer
Dm/F Em7 E F
Feel like you' re treading water, but the rip tide' s getting stronger
Dm7
Don' t panic, don' t jump ship
Bb/D
Can' t fight it, like taxes
F/A G4 G C
At least it happens only once in your life
Am7 Em F C
They' re singing "Happy Birthday," you just want to lay down and cry
Am7 Dm7 F7M G
Not just another birthday, it' s thirty ninety
C Am7
Why can' t you stay twenty-nine?
Em F C
Hell, you still feel like you' re twenty-two
Am7 Dm
Turn thirty, nineteen ninety, bang!
F G C
You' re dead, what can you do?
F2 C
What can you do?
F2 C
What can you do?
F C
Clear the runway, make another pass
F
Try one more approach before you' re out of gas
G Dm/F G Dm/F G
Friends are getting fatter, hairs on your head are getting thinner
Dm/F Em7 E F
Feel like a cleanup batter on a team that ain' t a winner?
Dm7
Don' t freak out, don' t strike out
Bb/D
Can' t fight it, like city hall
F/A G4 G C
At least you' re not alone, your friends are there too
Am7
They' re singing "Happy birthday"
Em F C
You just wish you could run away
Am7 Dm7
Who cares about a birthday?
F7M G C
But thirty ninety, hey!
Am7
Can you be optimistic?
Em F C
You' re no longer the ingenue
A7(4) Am
Turn thirty, nineteen ninety
Dm
Boom!
F2
You' re passe!
G C
What can you do?
F2 C
What can you do?
F2 E D A G
What can you do?
Dm G C F
Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, which way to Never Never Land?
Bb Eb Ab F C7M/E Dm
Em' rald City' s gone to hell, since the wizard blew off his command
G C F
On the street you hear the voices: lost children, crocodiles
Bb Eb Cm7
You' re not into making choices, wicked witches, poppy fields, or men behind the curtain
Ab
Tiger lilies, ruby slippers
Fm7 G A7(4) D
Clock is ticking, that' s for certain
Bm7
They' re singing "Happy Birthday"
F#m G D
I wish it all were a dream
Bm7 Em
It feels much more like doomsday
G7M/D A
Fuck thirty ninety!
D Bm7 F#m G D
Seems like I' m in for a twister, I don' t see a rainbow, do you?
Bm7
Turn thirty in the nineties
Em
Into my hands now the ball is passed
Bm
I want the spoils but not too fast
Em Bm
The world is calling, it' s now at Neverland
Em
Why can' t I stay a child forever? And thirty ninety
Bm7 G A7(4)
Thirty ninety, thirty ninety, thirty ninety, thirty ninety, thirty thirty ninety!
D G9 D
What can I do?
G9 D9
What can I do?