• Song:

    I Want To Be Well

  • Artist:

    Sufjan Stevens

  • Album:

    The Age of Adz

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値l find sleep, I値l find peace
Bm    Dm            Abm       F6
Or in death you値l sleep with me

G                 Bm     F
To figure that it was my fault
                   C               G
Or so I致e 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知 suffering in noise I知 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

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知 not fucking around
                          G9
I知 not, I知 not, I知 not fucking around

        F 
I知 not fucking around
                          [ch]Am7/F[/ch]
I知 not, I知 not, I知 not fucking around
        Dm 
I知 not fucking around
                          C 
I知 not, I知 not, I知 not fucking around
        F 
I知 not fucking around
                          G9 
I知 not, I知 not, I知 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知 not fucking around
                          [ch]Am7/F[/ch] 
I知 not, I知 not, I知 not fucking around
        Dm 
I知 not fucking around
                          C 
I知 not, I知 not, I知 not fucking around
        F 
I知 not fucking around
                          G9 
I知 not, I知 not, I知 not fucking around
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