Verse 1 - Childhood)
I’m five years old and the grass is taller than my knees
(C4 - E4 - G4 - G4 - F4 - E4 - D4)
Sunlight through the screen door, honey in the tea
(C4 - E4 - G4 - G4 - F4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
I’m holding onto a hemline, afraid the wind might blow
(C4 - E4 - G4 - A4 - G4 - F4 - E4)
My mother’s hand is steady, it’s the only world I know.
(D4 - D4 - E4 - F4 - E4 - D4 - C4 - C4)
(Chorus)
And nobody tells you that the calendar is a thief
(G4 - G4 - A4 - G4 - E4 - D4 - C4 - C4)
Taking back the minutes, giving back the goddamn grief
(G4 - G4 - A4 - B4 - C5 - G4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
We’re just patterns in the carpet, we’re just ripples in the lake
(G4 - A4 - B4 - C5 - G4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
How much of a heart is meant to bend before it has to break?
(G4 - A4 - G4 - E4 - D4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
(Verse 2 - Adulthood)
Twenty-five and frantic, I’m running out of time
(C4 - E4 - G4 - G4 - F4 - E4 - D4)
Building up a castle, trying to make the mountain mine
(C4 - E4 - G4 - G4 - F4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
But the birthdays start to blur and the faces start to fade
(C4 - E4 - G4 - A4 - G4 - F4 - E4)
I’m the head of a kitchen where the memories were made.
(D4 - D4 - E4 - F4 - E4 - D4 - C4 - C4)
(Bridge - Old Age)
Now my hands look like my mother’s, all paper-thin and blue
(A4 - A4 - A4 - G4 - G4 - F4 - E4 - D4)
I’m the ghost in the hallway that the kids are running through
(A4 - A4 - A4 - B4 - C5 - G4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
And it’s terrifying how the light begins to change
(A4 - A4 - G4 - G4 - F4 - E4 - D4)
When the "someday" that you feared is now within your reach and range.
(D4 - E4 - F4 - E4 - D4 - C4 - C4)
(Verse 3 - Finality)
Eighty-something winters and the tea is getting cold
(C4 - E4 - G4 - G4 - F4 - E4 - D4)
There’s a freedom in the falling, or so I have been told
(C4 - E4 - G4 - G4 - F4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
I’m letting go of the hemline, I’m stepping off the shore
(C4 - E4 - G4 - A4 - G4 - F4 - E4)
The house is full of echoes, but I don’t live here anymore.
(D4 - D4 - E4 - F4 - E4 - D4 - C4 - C4)
(Outro)
The grass is still tall.
(G4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
The sun is still high.
(G4 - E4 - D4 - C4)
I’m part of the garden.
(D4 - E4 - C4)
I’m part of the sky.
(G3 - C4 - B3 - C4)
