Intro: Cm Dm Gbm

                   F
One two three four!

Ab7 Ab

Verse 1:
F   Ab7
Oh!
Ab
You can tell
         F
From the scars on my arms
    F7
And cracks in my hips
        Ab7
And the dents in my car

And the blisters on my lips
         D7                     F
That I'm not the carefullest of girls

Verse 2:
F
You can tell
                           F
From the glass on the floor

And the strings that're breaking
      Ab7
And I keep on breaking more
                       D7
And it looks like I am shaking
         D                   F
But it's just the temperature

And then again

Verse 3:
   C                          F
If it were any colder I could disengage
                     D
If I were any older I would act my age
            F
But I don't think that you'd believe me
     C               F
It's not the way I'm meant

To be
              D                         F Ab7
It's just the way the operation made me

Verse 4:
Ab
And you can tell
F
From the state of my room

That they let me out too soon
        Ab
And the pills that I ate

Came a couple years too late
         Dm       D
And I've got some issues to work through
F
There I go again
C
Pretending to be you
F
Make-believing
       Am
That I have a soul beneath the surface
E
Trying to convince you
       F
It was accidentally on purpose

Interlude: Ab Fm

Chorus:
Db
I am not so serious
     Eb
This passion is a plagiarism
Bb
I might join your century
    Db
But only on a rare occasion

I was taken out
Eb
Before the labor pains set in and now
Bb
Behold the world's worst accident
F
I am the girl anachronism

Interlude: Ab F Ab7

Verse 5:
Ab
And you can tell
       F
By the red in my eyes
        F7
And the bruises on my thighs
        Ab7
And the knots in my hair

And the bathtub full of flies
         Dm                  F
That I'm not right now at all

There I go again
C
Pretending that I'll fall
F
Don't call the doctors
              Dm                 F
Cause they've seen it all before
                 C                 F
They'll say just let her crash and burn

She'll learn
    D                             F
The attention just encourages her

Verse 6:
Ab
And you can tell
         F
From the full-body cast
                                F
That you're sorry that you asked

Though you did everything you could
          Ab
Like any decent person would
      D                          F
But I might be catching so don't touch
                               C                    F
You'll start believing you're immune to gravity and stuff

Don't get me wet
            D                      F
Because the bandages will all come off


nc
You can tell
F
From the smoke at the stake

That the current state is critical
Ab                                 F
Well, it is the little things, for instance:

In the time it takes to break it she can make up ten excuses:
                                                                            F
Please excuse her for the day, it's just the way the medication makes her...

Chorus: Ab

Db                  Eb
I don't necessarily believe there is a cure for this
           Bb                    Db
So I might join your century but only as a doubtful guest
                     Eb
I was too precarious removed as a caesarian
Bb
Behold the world's worst accident:
F                          Bb
I am the girl anachronism (I am the girl anachronism)
F                         Bb
I am the girl anachronism (I am the girl anachronism)
F
I am the girl (I am the girl)

I am the girl!...
                          F
I am the girl anachronism!