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Beginner
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Intro:
A E D
Chorus:
A E D
Incomprehensible
Let me be
A E D
Incomprehensible
Let me be
Verse:
E
Highway 17, cotton candy rain
F#m
Driving with my lover, we missed our plane
D
So we added on the hours to see the lupine flowers
Bm
Way out past the border, we blew through Thunder Bay
A
The pine trees are narrow, a billion broken arrows
F#m
The ravens and the crows, robins and the sparrows
D
All across Ontario, just static on the stereo
Bm
And swimming in the lake, Old Woman Bay
A
Traveling with some stuff I left when I was a kid
F#m
Mr. Bear and the wooden box I hid
D
Full of broken gadgets that don't mean nothing now
Bm
The only thing I'll keep are the letters and the photographs
E
In two days it's my birthday and I'll be 33
F#m
But that doesn't really matter next to eternity
D
And I like a double number, and I like an odd one too
Bm
And everything I see from now on will be something new
A F#m D Bm
Verse 2:
A
"I'm afraid of getting older", that's what I learned to say
F#m
'Cause society has given me the words to think that way
D
The message spins and spirals, "Don't get saggy, don't get grey"
Bm
But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder
A
My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother too
F#m
They wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew
D
And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue
Bm
How can beauty that is living be anything but true?
A
So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair
F#m
Let me dance in front of people without a care
D
Let me be naked alone with nobody there
Bm
Or with mismatched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear
Outro:
A E D
Incomprehensible
Let me be
A E D
Incomprehensible
Let me be
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Song History
Published: September 4, 2024
Last Updated: February 13, 2026