Misc Musicals – Dont Stop Me - The Prize (Guitar)

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[Intro] Dm6 Am Dm6 Am E E7 Fmaj7 C E7(b9) Am [Chorus]
   Dm6
if this is the world you’re giving me

   Am
if this is the best you could do

    Dm6
i accept your gift graciously

   Am
as long the skies are still blue

   E                E7
and i will begin the rites

        Fmaj7           C
of absolution and purification

       E7
in the morning

         Am
when i’m ready
[Verse 1] N.C. the prize C#m C#mmaj7 C#m7
         C#mmaj7        C#m  C#mmaj7 C#m7 C#mmaj7
so let’s talk about the prize

    C#m  C#mmaj7
the prize

       C#m7
is the one thing

         C#mmaj7      C#m C#mmaj7 C#m7 C#mmaj7
that you want most of all

    C#m  C#mmaj7
the prize

       C#m7                 C#mmaj7
is the one thing that would get us to something

   C#m                   C#mmaj7 C#m7 C#mmaj7
so lame as a high school dance

     C#m                    C#mmaj7
it’s money, it’s love, it’s fame

       C#m7      C#mmaj7
it’s a perfect sat score

     C#m            C#mmaj7              C#m7       C#mmaj7
it’s full financial aid or an ivy league scholarship

       C#m                C#mmaj7
it’s a venture capitalist investment

            C#m7                 C#mmaj7
on my first startup and my first app

        C#m         C#mmaj7
it’s my own youtube channel

     C#m7
with 5 million followers

     C#mmaj7
with 5 billion followers

        C#m      C#mmaj7
it’s my big break

     C#m7           C#mmaj7
it’s i make perfect art

             C#m               C#mmaj7
and everyone cries cuz it’s so beautiful

C#m7         C#mmaj7
it’s perfect programming

  C#m                    C#mmaj7            C#m7      C#mmaj7
a cathedral of logic and order and numbers on my screen

        C#m                        C#mmaj7
it’s my wedding and children and a house

            C#m7
no it’s the peace corps

          C#mmaj7
no it’s i do whatever the hell i want

C#m     C#mmaj7     C#m7
a lost summer in brazil

         C#mmaj7             C#m       C#mmaj7
it’s the text that i’ve been waiting for

        C#m7           C#mmaj7
it’s an imac pad phone watch wallet car brain

C#m
lover, its an ilover

C#mmaj7                C#m7
its an ilover, it’s an igod

    C#mmaj7 C#m               C#mmaj7
and no more nightmares or disappointments

        C#m7                       C#mmaj7
i don’t disappoint the people that love me

       C#m              C#mmaj7
and my parents are back together

      C#m7
or my parents

   C#mmaj7             C#m
my parents are finally apart

C#mmaj7
and they’re happy again

    C#m7        C#mmaj7
and my youth is reclaimed

        C#m
a clean slate

                   C#mmaj7
every trauma wiped away

     C#m7          C#mmaj7
it’s perfect first sex

       C#m              C#mmaj7
and “i love you” really lasts

C#m7             C#mmaj7
and i feel wanted

                       C#m
and i’m skinny and i’m plump

                      C#mmaj7
and i’m confident and funny

           C#m7            C#mmaj7
and i walk in and everyone smiles

    C#m                    C#mmaj7
and no more heartbreak and no more daterape

    C#m7                 C#mmaj7
and no more predators or pedophiles

C#m        C#mmaj7      C#m7         C#mmaj7
and i understand my sexuality and my gender

             C#m
it’s perfect pronouns

C#mmaj7         C#m7
and everyone is mixed race

    C#mmaj7       C#m
and everyone’s in love

       C#mmaj7                       C#m7     C#mmaj7
oh but some people are totally happy alone too

     C#m
it’s happiness in solitude

  C#mmaj7          C#m7
a cup of tea and a good book

    C#mmaj7   C#m               C#mmaj7
and a song of ice and fire gets finished

    C#m7 C#mmaj7
and beyonce

      C#m C#mmaj7
never dies
[Prechorus]
      Am
and i dream of a world

              B7
where i don’t have to dance

       Am
and my feet don’t fail

            B7
before i’ve had my chance
[Chorus]
   Dm6
if this is the world you’re giving me

   Am
if this is the best you could do

    Dm6
i accept your gift graciously

   Am
as long the skies are still blue

   E                E7
and i will begin the rites

        Fmaj7           C
of absolution and purification

       E7     E7(b9)
in the morning

         Am
when i’m ready
[Verse 2] Fm Fmmaj7
   Fm7        Fmmaj7       Fm      Fmmaj7
philanthropy, service, and goodness

Fm7    Fmmaj7
no one starves

       Fm                   Fmmaj7
no one falls shaking to the ground

       Fm7                Fmmaj7
no one reeks of filth and despair

          Fm         Fmmaj7       Fm7     Fmmaj7
there’s a home and a hot meal for everyone

            Fm
there’s no addictions

    Fmmaj7             Fm7             Fmmaj7
and drugs are just the right degree of legal

       Fm
mental illness is gone

Fmmaj7    Fm7
ocd gone, bipolar gone

Fmmaj7              Fm                   Fmmaj7
schizophrenia gone, depression gone, and suicide gone

    Fm7               Fmmaj7
the end of cancer and hiv

Fm                     Fmmaj7
dementia, parkinson’s, ms, alzheimers

Fm7               Fmmaj7
all the screaming madnesses

Fm
no more life support

Fmmaj7
no one cut short

Fm7             Fmmaj7
and we eat real food

Fm          Fmmaj7
local and organic

        Fm7                 Fmmaj7
and the robot slaughterhouses are shuttered up

Fm               Fmmaj7
and there’s free birth control

Fm7     Fmmaj7      Fm
and abortion is unambiguous

        Fmmaj7 Fm7            Fmmaj7
and the end of racism, end of slavery

    Fm            Fmmaj7
the end of microaggressions

    Fm7            Fmmaj7  Fm
and police brutality, reparations

        Fmmaj7          Fm7
and the taboo words are neutered

    Fmmaj7               Fm          Fmmaj7
and humor is perfect and no one gets offended

    Fm7        Fmmaj7 Fm
and climate change is stopped

        Fmmaj7                        Fm7
and the whales and the eagles and the pandas

    Fmmaj7
are thriving

Fm                        Fmmaj7
we return the land to the stewards of ecology

 Fm7                    Fmmaj7
obliterate the rapes of capitalist ideology

Fm                  Fmmaj7
and the fall of the 1%

Fm7                Fmmaj7
no it’s me i'm the 1%

        Fm            Fmmaj7          Fm7        Fmmaj7
no it’s everybody has one 7-billionth of 100 percent

    Fm                    Fmmaj7
the fall of international borders

        Fm7           Fmmaj7         Fm       Fmmaj7
and the end of terrorism, jihad, and orthodoxy

        Fm7
and the middle east is fine

    Fmmaj7
and africa is fine

    Fm
and texas is fine

      Fmmaj7
south america fine

Fm7
china, ireland

Fmmaj7
israel, palestine

Fm
indonesia, north korea

Fmmaj7
and the nukes are gone

Fm7              Fmmaj7
and the guns are gone

                    Fm
and the schools are safe

            Fmmaj7            Fm7
and everybody is kind and smart

   Fmmaj7       Fm
no murder, no injustice

       Fmmaj7              Fm7               Fmmaj7
and an end to the midnight executions of the innocents

            Fm                 Fmmaj7
and all the prisoners shall be released

          Fm7  Fmmaj7
and their time given back

Fm          Fmmaj7 Fm7
and all the ghosts

  Fmmaj7 Fm
return

     Fmmaj7      Fm7         Fmmaj7
everyone we ever loved comes back

Dbmaj7
and we’re at the beach

            Fm/C
in gorgeous swimsuits

                  Dbmaj7
and the sun is magnificent

                       Fm/C
and we can all finally see

        Dbmaj7
we look up from our screens

         Fm/C                        Dbmaj7
from the endless sucking clickbait lobotomy

                    Fm/C
we wake up and look into each others eyes

Dbmaj7                   Fm/C
into the stars and black holes

                           Dbmaj7
into the quarks and secret souls

                      Fm/C
we break the speed of light
[Prechorus]
               Bbm6
and we finally know

                     C7
we know what’s gonna happen

                    Bbm6                       C7
and we know, and we know that everything’ll be ok

                      Bbm6
and that every moment counts

                 C7
every day, every hour

                    Bbm6
every minute, every second

                          C7
we know that every second counts
[Chorus]
   Ebm6
if this is the world you’re giving me

   Bbm
if this is the best you could do

    Ebm6
i accept your gift graciously

   Bbm
as long the skies are still blue

   F                F7
and i will begin the rites

        Gbmaj7          Db
of absolution and purification

       F7
in the morning

         Bbm
when i’m ready

   Ebm6
if this is the world you’re giving me

   Bbm
if this is the best you could do

    Ebm6
i accept your gift graciously

   Bbm
as long the skies are still blue

   F                F7
and i will begin the rites

        Gbmaj7          Db
of absolution and purification

       F7
in the morning

         Bbm
when i’m ready

       F7
in the morning

         Bbm
when i’m ready

       F7     F7(b9)
in the morning

         Bbm
when i’m ready