• Song:

    I Feel Fantastic

  • Artist:

    Jonathan Coulton

  • Album:

    Our Bodies, Ourselves, ...

I Feel Fantastic - Jonathan Coulton

The arrangement here is based on what he plays live, cause its the only one i've 
heard. and its awesome.
Just incase your unfamiliar with any of these chords, here are your shapes:

   A     E      Bm     D     G    C#m    F#m   Bm7b5    B    C#m7b5
E--0-----0------2------2-----3-----4------2--------------------------|
B--2-----0------3------3-----0-----5------2------3------4------5-----|
G--2-----1------4------2-----0-----6------2------2------4------4-----|
D--2-----2------4------0-----0-----6------4------3------4------5-----|
A--0-----2------2------------x-----4------4------2------2------4-----|
E--------0-------------------3------------2--------------------------|


Intro
A         A        |

Verse 1
A                   E                      Bm                       D
Get up early when a sleeping pill wakes me, take a wake up pill and fill with energy
A                   E                   Bm                      D
         I power on hard and I check my messages,         but I don't have any messages
A                       E                 Bm                          D
I take driving pill and head to my car,    I drive around a bit cause work isn't very far
A                   E                    Bm                     D
          I call my phone and I check my messages,        but I don't have any messages
E                   G                      D                      A
All I know       is driving on drugs feels better when they're prescription
E                   G                      D                       E
All I know   is the world looks beautiful, the world looks so damn beautiful


Chorus
          A               D             E             
I feel fantastic,   and I never felt as good as how 
A	                      D	           E
I do right now except for maybe when I think of 
      C#m       F#m        D        Bm7b5      A                A
how I felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now 
          A               D             E             
I feel fantastic,   and I never felt as good as how 
A	                      D	           E
I do right now except for maybe when I think of 
      C#m       F#m        D        Bm7b5      A             A             A
how I felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now,    right now,    right now


A                    A               |

Verse 2
A                    E                 Bm                   D
Work is anything but quiet these days, I try to medicate my concentration haze
A                    E                Bm                    D
      I can feel the day   unfold   infront of me,     so I take the stairs and hit the gym
A                           E              Bm                           D
The phone is ringing when I get to my desk, what was a stinging's now a sharp pain in my chest
A                    E                 Bm                 D
         So I take a Calminex and just chill,             then it's time for lunch again
E                    G                     D                      A
All I know        is work is easy when you don't stress out about deadlines
E                    G                   D              E
All I know      is I take my medicine, I always take my medicine


Chorus 2
          A               D             E             
I feel fantastic,   and I never felt as good as how 
A	                      D	           E
I do right now except for maybe when I think of 
      C#m       F#m        D        Bm7b5      A                A
how I felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now 
          A               D             E             
I feel fantastic,   and I never felt as good as how 
A	                      D	           E
I do right now except for maybe when I think of 
      C#m       F#m        D        Bm7b5      A              A            
how I felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now,     right now


Middle section
B                        C#m7b5              B             C#m7b5
           Sometimes I'd like to slow things down,       enjoy the moment
B                        C#m7b5              B             C#m7b5
              but when I look    the moments gone

A        A        |

Verse 3
A                  E                        Bm                    D
Work is over but I can't stay to work late,  got to leave and get ready for my second date
A                  E                      Bm                      D
     With a pretty girl that I met at the pharmacy,               right in the prescription line
A                    E                     Bm                     D
I take a pill for my social anxiety,            I get a table and nice bottle of Chablis
A                  E                         Bm                   D
  Now it's getting late and there's still no sign of her,       I have another glass of wine
E                  G                         D                         A
All I know  is the wine last longer when you don't gotta share it with someone
E                  G                          D	                   E
All I know   is my steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill


Final Chorus
          A               D             E             
I feel fantastic,   and I never felt as good as how 
A	                      D	           E
I do right now except for maybe when I think of 
      C#m       F#m        D        Bm7b5      A                A
how I felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now 
          A               D             E             
I feel fantastic,   and I never felt as good as how 
A	                      D	           E
I do right now except for maybe when I think of  
      C#m       F#m        D        Bm7b5      A              A              A
how I felt that day when I felt the way that I do right now,     right now,     right now   



There you go. Now take your I can play guitar and sing pill and go for it.

Dave

P.S Any questions or anything feel free to email me: Big_dave699@hotmail.com
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