Ezra Furman – Amateur (Guitar)

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[Intro] D G D G [Verse 1]
              D
I wanna be an amateur

                    G
That's what I would like to someday be

              D
I wanna be an amateur

            G
Back like I used to be

           D
I wanna go down to the essence, down to the essence

           G
Down to my clumsy childhood essence

         D
I wanna be

           G           D     G  D G
Essentially unfiltered, free
[Verse 2]
              D
I don't like power

             G
I don't like hierarchy

                D
I don't worship human power

               G
The idea of enemy is not for me

        D
I'm an American

                       G
I'd like to think that means real democracy

              D       G
I wanna be an amateur
[Verse 3]
               D
When you're an amateur

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You don't have the whole thing preconceived

                D
You're flying blind

                 G
You didn't get a pricey art degree

                       D
Or if you did, that's fine

              G
If you can forget your vocabulary

                   D
You got wings to fly

         G
No sense keeping them folded neatly

              D
Take to the sky

                G
Let me hear you strain your voice so sweetly

        D
You got instinct, you got almond eyes

G
  Get your feathers dirty, baby

       D                   G
If you wanna be an amateur
[Outro]
      D       G
Stick with me

               D      G
I don't know anything

          D           G
I don't know anything

                        D
At least that's how I'd like to be

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I, I wanna be an amateur
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