Capo 1. The song is in 7/8 and 5/4
G Bm F
To think that I would die this time
C G
Isolated in the room where the bed rises
D A
Photographic ordinary people are everywhere
F#m Dm Bm
Extraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories
F G Dm C
I’ll find sleep, I’ll find peace
Bm Dm Abm F6
Or in death you’ll sleep with me
G Bm F
To figure that it was my fault
C G
Or so I’ve come to realize life is not about
D A
Love with someone, ordinary people are everywhere
F#m Dm Bm
Extraordinary people are, ordinary people are, ordinary people are
F G Dm C
Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn
Bm Dm Abm F6
Illness is watching, waiting its turn
C E
Did I go at it wrong?
F C
Did I go intentionally to destroy me?
Am Dbm G E
I’m suffering in noise I’m suffering in (touching ordinary body)
Am E F C
The burning from within the burning from with (ordinary hysteria)
Am Dbm G E
I could not be at rest, I could not be at peace (extraordinary hysteria)
Am D E C
So do yourself a good, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
Am D E C
Or do yourself a favor, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
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Fmaj7 Am Dm G
Illness likes, to prey upon the lonely, prey upon the lonely
Fmaj7 Am Dm 2 G
Wave goodbye, oh, I would rather be, but I would rather be fine
F G Dm C
ooooooooooooooooooooh
Bm Dm Abm F6
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
F
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
[ch]Am7/F[/ch]
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
Dm
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
C
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
F
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
G9
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
F
And I forgive you even
as you choke me that way
[ch]Am7/F[/ch]
With the pill or demon
and the shrouded shalom
Dm
Under conversation
in tremendous weight of
C
A crowd of ages outside
dressed for murder
F
I’m not fucking around
G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
F
I’m not fucking around
[ch]Am7/F[/ch]
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
Dm
I’m not fucking around
C
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
F
I’m not fucking around
G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
F
And shall I kiss you even as you take me that way?
[ch]Am7/F[/ch]
With the pill or demon as my body changes
Dm
Apparitions gone awry they surround me, all sides
C
But from within I see an unholy change
F
I'm not fucking around
G9
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not fucking around
F
I’m not fucking around
[ch]Am7/F[/ch]
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
Dm
I’m not fucking around
C
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
F
I’m not fucking around
G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
