Bo Burnham – Sad (Guitar)

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[Intro] It's about all the sad stuff I see in the world I see a lot of sad stuff and it's called sad C F C/G Em
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Get on my, level Maddison. Just picture a depressed onion cutting itself.
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I met a homeless man named Rich

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Isn't that terrible?

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I saw a flyer for a lost dog

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And the dog didn't have any legs

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I saw a diabetic kid trick-or-treating

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I saw a giraffe who had a short neck

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That was sad, or a deer

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I saw an old man get hit by a train

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He didn't see it in the pouring rain                                          

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He didn't hear me shout, "Look out for the train!"
Because I didn't say anything. C F C/G Em
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I just thought to myself, "Ooh, this is gonna be sad."

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           And it was.

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      I'm a genius.

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I saw a man with only one eye

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In a 3D movie

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I saw a little boy drop his ice cream cone

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Directly on his mother's corpse

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I saw a kitten stuck in a tree

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Then the kitten jumped off and he hung himself

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I saw a boy who had red hair.

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I went to a store looking for something to buy

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But they only sold paintings of the same sad guy

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No, wait--this store sells mirrors! 

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See what I did there?

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Let's rock! No.
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The world's so sad, Maddison. 

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Pain, war, genocide, racism, sexism. 

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But I've gotta remember there's good things about it too. 

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Like the fact that none of that's happening to me! Score! 

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Still, though, it's hard not to be sad about it. 

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How do y'all do it? 
I've been telling you guys terribly sad things this whole song; you
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haven't been sad at all. 

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You've been happy--no, you've been laughing.

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That's it, laughter, it's the key to everything. 

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It's the way to solve all the sadness in the world!

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I mean not for the people that are actually sad,

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but the people like us that've gotta fucking deal with them all the time.

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Being a comedian isn't being an insensitive prick 

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capitalizing on the most animalistic impulses of the public;

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it's being a hero! The world isn't sad. The world's funny! 

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I'm a sociopath!  

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I saw an old man slip and fall

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Hey, what a fucking idiot

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I saw a woman at her daughter's funeral

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Ha ha ha. Classic comedy.

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Everything that once was sad

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Is somehow funny now

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The Holocaust and 9/11

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That shit's funny 24/7, cuz

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Tragedy will be exclusively joked about

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Because my empathy is bumming me out

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Goodbye, sadness

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Hello jokes.