Thumbs chords by Lucy Dacus

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Verse 1:
G        Em
You hung up the phone
   D          C
And I asked you what was wrong
       Em      D
Your dad has come to town
        C
He'd like to meet
    G          C
I said, "You don't have to see him"
  Em              C
But for whatever reason you can't tell him no

🎸 Verse 2:
   G       Em
So we meet him at a bar
     D       C
You were holding my hand hard
      G
He ordered rum and coke
        D      C
I can't drink either anymore
      G         D
He hadn't seen you since the fifth grade
      Em         C
Now you're nineteen and you're five-eight
     Em
He said "Honey, you sure look great
    D                 C
Do you get the checks I send on your birthday?"

🎸 Chorus:
    Am
I would kill him
    D
If you let me
    Am
I would kill him
      D
Quick and easy
    Am       G
Your nails are digging
     D
Into my knee
    Em
I don't know
  D      C
How you keep smiling

🎸 Verse 3:
       G
I lovе your eyes
   Em
And he has thеm
      G
Or you have his
    D   C
'Cause he was first
 G     C      Em
I imagine my thumbs on the irises
     D      C
Pressing in until they burst

🎸 Verse 4:
      G
I clear my throat
   Em       D
And say we ought to get home
  C      G
He offers us a ride
 Em         D     C
I reply "No, that's alright"
       Em
And when we leave
       C
You feel him watching
   G      D       C
So we walk a mile in the wrong direction

🎸 Chorus:
    Am
I would kill him
    D
If you let me
    Am
I would kill him
      D
Quick and easy
       Am    G
Your nails are digging
   D
Into my knee
    Em
I don't know
    D    C
how you keep smiling
    Em
I don't know
   D    C
how you keep smiling
    Em
I don't know
   D     C
how you keep smiling

🎸 Outro:
    D             C
I wanna take your face between my hands and say
G       Em      D     C
"You two are connected by a pure coincidence
G        Em       D        C
Bound to him by blood, but baby, it's all relative
G         Em     D         C
You've been in his fist ever since you were a kid
G           Em     D      C
But you don't owe him shit even if he said you did
G         Em     D      C
You don't owe him shit even if he said you did"