The Magnetic Fields – I Was Born (Guitar)

      C
I was born, I hate this part,

             E
being someone new,

       F                       C            G
being torn, seeing someone who died as you grew.

         F                  C
Growing older is killing a child

                 G             D
who laughed and smiled at anything,

         F                        C
growing colder and less and less wild

                 G
and learning to sing.

       C
I was young, then not so young:

              E
scary either way.

         F                       C          G
One more rung down that black ladder every day.

           F                 C
One more floor down the elevator

          G         D
to oblivion what fun,

F G
but the singularly awful one

F A
is being born.