Jets to Brazil – Wish List (Ukulele)

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Perfecting Loneliness 2002 Jade Tree Records Submitted by: [email protected] Chords used: E - 022100 C#m - x46654 A - x02220 Am - x02210 B - x24442 G# - 466544

F#m -  244222
Edim - 078900 or 022300

Intro: E--C#m--A--E-- x2 Verse 1:

E
  Mom and dad can't

remember if I told you

C#m
   how glad I am I

finally got to know you

A
Years from when we 

                 E
met after I left home

E
  Let me sing you sweet

and distant fictions

C#m
   On lonely nights you

will lay and listen

A
  If you don't like it

             E     E C#m A E
wait until I fix it

Verse 2:

E
  Then morning comes and

cops invade my conscience

C#m
   I run around

the house A heated atom

A
Can't foresee the outcome 

                        E
but you can lean to one side

E
  If ever I should seem

to take for gradated

C#m
   this lovely life that

I have been handed

A
darling don't just stand

                     E
there come knock me around

because Chorus 1:

A
  I know I can write my

               E
way out of this black hole

Back to all the things that I miss

B
  Sometimes I wonder 

           A
if I even exist

Am(hold)
Add another line 

           E   Am(hold)
to my wish list

Verse 3:

E
  The overview is

not the same as going through

C#m
   the present joy

and all it took to come to this

A
  to know the ending 

            E
would be pretending

E
  They took my words and

wrote them off as passing

C#m
   It pissed me off enough

to keep m writing

A
  Go make your living boy

           E
I'll go on fighting cause

Chorus 2:

A
  I know I can write my

               E
way out of this black hole

Back to all the things that I miss

A
  You stay digging at 

                A
your own little ditch

       Am
That's just another 

            E
thing on my wish list

Bridge:

F#m             A
   If I should slide 

         E
over and under

B               A      Am(hold)
you know I just might stay

till I get it right

Guitar Solo:
E-B-A--E-B-A-E--B-A--E-G# A(hold)

Verse 4:

E
  Some people say I'm

corny or I'm morbid

C#m
   I always thought I

was touching I was tragic

A
One man's magic 

             E
is another's plastic

E
  Well which one is it?

Am I sweetness? Am I sickness?

C#m
   If I say both you will

say I lack commitment

A
  Of course you're right

              E
Of course I'm right but

Chorus 3:

A
  I know I can write

my way out of

    E
this black hole

Back to all the things that I miss

B
  Sometimes I don't 

               A
even know you exist

       Am(hold)
That's just another 

            E        Edim A E(hold)
thing on my wish list