That's Me Trying Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G][C]
[G]I g[C]ot your address from[G]
the phone book at the library
Wandered in,
[C]looked you up and you were there
Weird [G]that you've been living, maybe,
2 miles away for the best part [C]of 20 years
You must be, what,
[Am]in your early forties now
If I [C]remember,
You were born in June
or was [G]it May?
Eisenhower was the president although
[C]it may have been JFK

[Verse 2]
[G]Years of silence
Not [C]enough who [G]could blame
us giving [C]up?
Above [Am]the quiet there's [C]a buzz
That's me try[G]ing

[Verse 3]
You still working in that store [C]on
Ventura?
You still going with [G]no, that's not fair
I know I haven't been the
very best of [C]dads
I'll hold my hand up there
The reason that [G]I'm writing
is that I'd like for us to meet
[C]Get a little daughter dad action
going soon
We can put [Am]things behind us
Eat some pizza, drink some beer
You still see [C]your sister Lemli?
Bring her, too

[Verse 4]
Years [G]of silence, not [C]enough
Who [G]could blame us giving [C]up?
Above [Am]the quiet there's [C]a buzz
That's me try[G]ing

[Verse 5]
But I [C]don't want to talk about
any of that bad stuff
[Dm]Why I missed out on your wedding
and your high school graduation
[G]I'd like to explain, but I can't
[Dm]So let's keep things neutral
Stick to topics [G]that won't
bug us

[Verse 6]
[Am]How 'bout this?
Let's choose a book and we'll
read it before we meet
[C]Then we can sit down at a restaurant
Have a look at the menu [Bb]and
talk about it while we eat
See, if we never had a problem
Then that's what life would be like
[G]Easy
Uncomplicated

[Verse 7]
Cool
[C]So let's just preten[Em]d
that the past didn't hap[G]pen
I don't really like thriller as
[C]well.
I don't want to [G]know if I've
got grandchildren
no need to tell me [C]where I went wrong
I don't want to know
what happene[G]d in your thirties
[C]You want to try 'cold mountain'?
Or is that too long??

[Verse 8]
Years [G]of silence, not [C]enough
Who [G]could blame us giving [C]up?
Above [Am]the quiet there's [C]a buzz
That's me try[G]ing[C]
[G]I'm [C]trying
[Am][C]