Thumbs

Verse 1:
Bb                Gm
You hung up the phone
      F                   Eb
And I asked you what was wrong
             Gm            F
Your dad has come to town
               Eb
He'd like to meet
        Bb                    Eb
I said, "You don't have to see him"
    Gm                            Eb
But for whatever reason you can't tell him no

Verse 2:
      Bb             Gm
So we meet him at a bar
          F              Eb
You were holding my hand hard
           Bb
He ordered rum and coke
               F            Eb
I can't drink either anymore
           Bb                  F
He hadn't seen you since the fifth grade
            Gm                 Eb
Now you're nineteen and you're five-eight
         Gm
He said "Honey, you sure look great
        F                                 Eb
Do you get the checks I send on your birthday?"

Chorus:
        Cm
I would kill him
        F
If you let me
        Cm
I would kill him
           F
Quick and easy
       Cm              Bb
Your nails are digging
         F
Into my knee
        Gm
I don't know
    F           Eb
How you keep smiling

Verse 3:
             Bb
I lovе your eyes
      Gm
And he has thеm
            Bb
Or you have his
       F     Eb
'Cause he was first
  Bb          Eb           Gm
I imagine my thumbs on the irises
         F            Eb
Pressing in until they burst

Verse 4:
           Bb
I clear my throat
     Gm              F
And say we ought to get home
   Eb           Bb
He offers us a ride
  Gm                 F         Eb
I reply "No, that's alright"
              Gm
And when we leave
              Eb
You feel him watching
      Bb           F              Eb
So we walk a mile in the wrong direction

Chorus:
        Cm
I would kill him
        F
If you let me
        Cm
I would kill him
           F
Quick and easy
             Cm        Bb
Your nails are digging
      F
Into my knee
        Gm
I don't know
       F        Eb
how you keep smiling
        Gm
I don't know
      F        Eb
how you keep smiling
        Gm
I don't know
     F         Eb
how you keep smiling

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