The Birthday Party chords by The 1975

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
D MajorD E minorEm F# minorF#m G+G A augmentedA

Verse 1:
D MajorD E minorEm F# minorF#m    G+G  A augmentedA
Hello, there's a place I've been going
D MajorD   E minorEm   F# minorF#m    G+G    A augmentedA
There's a place I've been going
D MajorD    E minorEm F# minorF#m  G+G   A augmentedA
Now I'm clean, it would seem
A augmentedA
Let's go somewhere I'll be seen
D MajorD    E minorEm F# minorF#m  G+G
As sad as it seems
A augmentedA
I've seen Greg and he was like
D MajorD               E minorEm    F# minorF#m
"I've seen your friends at the birthday party
       G+G         A augmentedA
They were kinda fucked up before it even started
D MajorD               E minorEm      F# minorF#m
They were gonna go to the Pinegrove show
  G+G              A augmentedA
They didn't know about all the weird stuff
           D MajorD        E minorEm      F# minorF#m
So they just left it" (So they just left it)
  G+G           A augmentedA
I was wasted (I was wasted)
D MajorD    E minorEm  F# minorF#m   G+G   A augmentedA
And cold, minding my business

Chorus:
Then I've seen the girls and they were all like
D MajorD    E minorEm       F# minorF#m
"Do you wanna come and get fucked up?"
    G+G              A augmentedA
Listen, I got myself a missus, so there can't be any kissing
 D MajorD          E minorEm         F# minorF#m
"No, don't be a fridge, you better wise up, kid
    G+G              A augmentedA
It's all Adderall now, it doesn't make you wanna do it"

Verse 2:
D MajorD    E minorEm    F# minorF#m       G+G             A augmentedA
"This ain't going well", I thought that I was stuck in Hell
D MajorD        E minorEm          F# minorF#m
In a boring conversation with a girl called Mel
 G+G       A augmentedA
About her friend in Cincinnati called Matty as well
D MajorD        E minorEm          F# minorF#m
You pulled away when I went in for the kiss
G+G       A augmentedA
No, it wasn't a diss
 D MajorD           E minorEm            F# minorF#m
You put the tap on to cover up the sound of your piss
G+G           A augmentedA
After four years, don't you think I'm over all this?
 D MajorD        E minorEm          F# minorF#m
"That's rich from a man who can't shit in a hotel room
 G+G       A augmentedA
He's gotta share for a bit"
 D MajorD        E minorEm          F# minorF#m
You make a little hobby out of going to the lobby
 G+G         A augmentedA
To get things that they don't have

Chorus:
        D MajorD           E minorEm
Does it go through ya when I'm talking to ya?
 F# minorF#m       G+G
You know that I could sue ya if we're married
     A augmentedA
And you fuck up again
D MajorD           E minorEm            F# minorF#m
Impress myself with stealth and bad health
     G+G            A augmentedA
And my wealth and progressive causes
         D MajorD      E minorEm    F# minorF#m
Drink your kombucha and buy an Ed Ruscha
      G+G              A augmentedA
Surely, it's a print 'cause I'm not made of it
 A augmentedA
Look, the fucking state of it
 D MajorD
I came pretty late to it
 E minorEm      F# minorF#m     G+G        A augmentedA
We can still be mates 'cause it's only a picture


Outro:
        D MajorD E minorEm F# minorF#m G+G  A augmentedA
All your friends in one place
         D MajorD  E minorEm F# minorF#m G+G   A augmentedA
Oh, we're a scene, whatever that means
         D MajorD  E minorEm F# minorF#m G+G   A augmentedA
I depend on my friends to stay clean
D MajorD  E minorEm F# minorF#m G+G   A augmentedA
As sad as it seems
D MajorD  E minorEm F# minorF#m G+G   A augmentedA
As sad as it seems
D MajorD  E minorEm F# minorF#m G+G   A augmentedA
As sad as it seems

D MajorD  E minorEm F# minorF#m G+G   A augmentedA

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