Tom: C
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?