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I am nervous about this!!! It's been so long and the world is different and honestly I always made music a little bit focused more on being funny and interesting than being something I was artistically proud of but this is in a different direction. Hope you like!
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[G]Drove home from the Richman show, he [Am]played “That Summer [D]Feeling,”
and [G]I felt it a little, but that [Am]feeling kept re[D]treating.
My [Am]head by the P[D]A, I heard my [G]heart [Am]beat [C]weird,
you [Am]felt so real be[D]side me, I [G]didn’t [Am]feel as [C]real.
Flat [G]earthers argue whether other [Am]planets are [D]flat,
Doctors [G]say not to worry but I’m still [Am]scared of [D]math
A [Am]thousand little [D]gods down there all [G]whis[Am]per my [C]worth,
So I [C]talk to the [D]cats like it’s [G]church.
I don’t [C]honk at a [D]truck on a saturday night [G]night,
Even though it’s stopped in front of me at the green light
I won’t honk at a truck stopped at a green light,
’cause I like... being alive.
There’s [G]teeth in the stack where the [Am]power lines [D]end,
they [G]sell you the itch and they [Am]rent you the [D]win.
A [Am]king bought the [D]kingdom of [G]sig[Am]nal and [C]sin,
and the [Am]stans paint their [D]mirrors with [G]pictures[Am] of [C]him.
The [G]hit gets quicker, the [Am]loop gets [D]worse,
I [G]scrolled until the ghost in the [Am]glass learns [D]words.
And my [Am]fingers tap tap [D]tap tap [G]tap tap[Am], [C]
in [Am]case of emer[D]gency...[G] [Am] break [C]glass.
But still I don’t honk...
The moon looks [C]fake, but it’s hanging [D]there,
Frozen [G]sky tastes like wine in the [Am]cold -night [C]air.
The lines hum and my heart keeps time,
It [G]smells awful sweet for a [Am]world on [C]fire
’Cause the kid’s asleep and the lights still work,
And I [C]talk to the [D]cats like it’s [G]church.
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[G]Drove home from the Richman show, he [Am]played “That Summer [D]Feeling,”
and [G]I felt it a little, but that [Am]feeling kept re[D]treating.
My [Am]head by the P[D]A, I heard my [G]heart [Am]beat [C]weird,
you [Am]felt so real be[D]side me, I [G]didn’t [Am]feel as [C]real.
Flat [G]earthers argue whether other [Am]planets are [D]flat,
Doctors [G]say not to worry but I’m still [Am]scared of [D]math
A [Am]thousand little [D]gods down there all [G]whis[Am]per my [C]worth,
So I [C]talk to the [D]cats like it’s [G]church.
I don’t [C]honk at a [D]truck on a saturday night [G]night,
Even though it’s stopped in front of me at the green light
I won’t honk at a truck stopped at a green light,
’cause I like... being alive.
There’s [G]teeth in the stack where the [Am]power lines [D]end,
they [G]sell you the itch and they [Am]rent you the [D]win.
A [Am]king bought the [D]kingdom of [G]sig[Am]nal and [C]sin,
and the [Am]stans paint their [D]mirrors with [G]pictures[Am] of [C]him.
The [G]hit gets quicker, the [Am]loop gets [D]worse,
I [G]scrolled until the ghost in the [Am]glass learns [D]words.
And my [Am]fingers tap tap [D]tap tap [G]tap tap[Am], [C]
in [Am]case of emer[D]gency...[G] [Am] break [C]glass.
But still I don’t honk...
The moon looks [C]fake, but it’s hanging [D]there,
Frozen [G]sky tastes like wine in the [Am]cold -night [C]air.
The lines hum and my heart keeps time,
It [G]smells awful sweet for a [Am]world on [C]fire
’Cause the kid’s asleep and the lights still work,
And I [C]talk to the [D]cats like it’s [G]church.
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Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn
If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch
If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn
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