Forty years old (clip)

G - D - Em - D

G D

1. When I was young I was closest to her heart,

Em C

we were like one person, but we've drifted far apart.

G D

Now when I need her most, she will not support me,

Em C

and if I won't go quietly, she'll have to report me.

Am Em

She wants me to act like some middle-aged man,

Am D

I used to think she knew me, but she can't understand

G D Em

that it's hard to make a living doing watercolor and collage,

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that's why I'm forty years old and I'm living in my Mom's garage.

G D

2. My girlfriend's all but finished with her graduate degree,

Em C

she always knows the questions when we're watching "Jeopardy".

G D

There's a coffeehouse near campus where her work is on display,

Em C

the critics from the weekly paper go there every day.

Am Em

She's a true creative, which they cannot abide,

Am D

so they compensate by being condescending and snide.

G D Em

They say her work's a mangled mess of macrame and mucilage,

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but they're all forty years old and they're living in their Mom's garage.

 C D

I am forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's ga....

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forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's ga...

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forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's garage.

C Em

+ My hobbies are Godzilla movies, mountain biking, and triage,

C

I've got to relax 'cause I get so stressed

D

from this incessant negative barrage. + instr. = verse 2 , lines 1 - 6

G D

3. Mom wakes me up, she needs the car, for what I can't say,

Em C

she dresses up and goes out early almost every day.

G D

I try to explain that an artist needs his rest

Em C

at least 12 hours, so I can be my best.

Am Em

Now I'm outside sleeping under the hedge,

Am D

but someday they'll recognize me as the genius with an edge,

G D Em

I'll meet with the New York elite, I'll be the Duke of Decoupage,

G D Em

with a carhole full of limos for my sycophantic entourage.

G D Em

Hey, at least I'm chasing something, even if it's only a mirage,

C D

but now I'm forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's ga... (fifty!)

C D

forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's ga... (sixty!)

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forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's garage.

C D

Now I'm forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's ga.... (seventy!)

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forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's ga... (dead!)

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forty years old and I'm livin' in my Mom's garage. + Cm - G

(orig. = capo 2nd) (Austin Lounge Lizards)