All Grown Up

Words & Music:

Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (Elvis Costello)

 

D                               G                        D

"I'm trouble", she said, spread out on the floor of her father's house.

Em                   A

Her promise was almost undone,

D                    Bm          BM/A      C#

Under her tongue, dissolving all responsibility.

    F#m                       A

To finally deny everyone with every unflattering comparison.

 

CHORUS:

D         A          G          D

All grown up And you don't care anymore

D                   F#               G       Gm

And you hate all the people that you used to adore.

D                       F#                      G            Gm

And you despise all the rumours and lies of the life you led before.

 

Bm                     C                          D/C

Did I hear you right?  You're feeling hounded and pushed around.

C

You want to just lay down and die.

   Bm                   Bm/A                 G

If all of this life has been such a big disappointment to you.

Em                                    C                      A

Why don't you stop blaming some guy & go give the next one a try?

 

CHORUS:

 

    D                        A          G       D

But look at yourself; you'll see you're still so young.

A           G          D         Em                   C

You haven't earned the weariness that sounds so jaded on your tongue.

 

 

D                        G                        D

"I'm weak", She says and blesses herself and gets into bed.

Em                          A

Clutching the covers to her throat,

D                     Bm        Bm/A        C#

"So punish me now and let me go back to the sham of my life"

F#m                                     A

"This night is the perfect antidote for all of the poison that you wrote"

 

CHORUS:

 





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