Misc Musicals – Ordinary Days - Big Picture (Guitar)

            C
I’ll have a mocha caramel latte-chino

            G        C
Made with skim milk, no whipped cream

C
Please put that in a Grande cup

Am        D        C         F
But use the same amount of coffee

      G                C
That you’d put into a Tall

 C                    F
That way, there’s about an inch

F
Of extra room on top

F/C
To stir in my own nutmeg

                       C
Without spilling any coffee at all

C
What do you want?

C
I’ll have a tea

C
What kind?

C
Just...tea?

C                              G
He’ll have your green Darjeeling tea

C
Which I am sure you know cannot be steeped

 G
For more than ninety-five seconds

 C     F
Shall we?

F
So, what’s your deal?

F
My what?

F
Your deal. What are you about?

C                         D
Well, I’m about five foot five, I guess

C                          F
You really don’t find me funny at all?

Am
Funny, yes

G#dim
Amusing, no

Ddim             C
But seriously, Warren

F          C
I want to know

C
Describe to me

F
Your big picture

A#          Gm7
Well, there’s this Picasso

G7       C
Don’t start

          F
Everyone’s got

D#      A#
A big picture

          G
Something they shoot for

G7               C
That sets them apart

F
We’ve all got

         E
An awful lot

Am                 Fm
To do before we’re dead

Dm                  C
So, where do you see yourself

Fm             D7
In, say, five years?

G7                G           C
I haven’t thought that far ahead

F
Are you gonna be serious?

C
Do I have to?

F            C           F
Well, I work for an artist

F
Tell me what you do

A7          Dm
I dunno, I watch his cat

Dm                  C          F
And this morning I fixed his curtain rod

Am
Sure, okay

Fdim
That pays the rent

Ddim           C
But that is not exactly

F         C
What I meant

C
When I asked to hear

F
Your big picture

D#          A#
Something beyond

G
Your daily routine

C
Talk about

F
Your big picture

A#
The fairy tale ending

F                   G
That you’ve always seen

      F
I am sure

            E7
There’s something more

   Am                Fm    Dm
To you than doing chores

                       F
Everyone’s got a big picture in mind

G            C
So, what’s yours?

C
Well, since you asked

F                            A#           F
In five years, I’ll have an amazing apartment

C
With bookshelves built into the walls

A#                            F
A window that looks out on someplace big

C
And a personal assistant who screens my calls

F                                    E
The book I write will be required reading

Am                                D
To get into the seminars that I’ll be leading

F
That’s the plan

E7                 Am
As far as I can see it

D      Fm
And yet it

Dm               F
Isn’t quite apparent

C                 F
What I’m supposed to do

       C
To get it

C
Some big picture

C
How’s your tea?

C
My what?

F
Your tea?

F
Oh, it’s sort of… gotten cold

C                           Dm
These stupid "baristas" don’t know how

Dm           C
To heat a proper –

F
Deb, it’s really okay

G         Am
Look, I know

Dm
That we just met

Dm
But it seems to me that maybe

C              F
You might wanna get

G
Some perspective on

C               F
This "big picture"

D#            A#
"Big," after all, is

G
A relative term

C
Maybe this whole

F
"Big picture"

                A#
Shouldn’t be something

               G
On which you stand firm

C
You’re in a rut

F             E7
Who cares, so what

Am                    C
If your picture’s not quite clear?

Fm
I mean, you and me

E            Am
And lukewarm tea

Dm7
This could be

C             G                 C
Your really big picture right here

C
Oh my God, you’re right

F
See?

F                     G
Sitting here at Starbucks drinking mediocre coffee

                     C
with a professional cat sitter is all my life is going to amount to

C
That’s not really what I meant

C                       C5
Oh my God, what time is it?

F
I have to go

G
Where are you going, Claire?

G
You don’t have to go

C
Please don’t –

C
Claire, stop

C#m7
Yes, I do, I’m late for my appointment

C#m7
Not now

C#m7
Deb, there’s something I want to show you

C                             G
You can’t just leave me in the rain

G
And hope that things will wash away, Claire...

G
I can't

G
But Deb...

G
Then soon?

G
It's not my fault that it's raining...

G
Yes, later, Warren

G
Promise?

G
Answer me!

G
I promise, later, Warren

G
It's not my fault that it is raining, is it?

G
Call me then

G
You'll call me later?

G7
I'll call you later

G
Jesus, Claire!

C                         C7
Where are you going, Claire?

C                             D
Can’t you just talk to me, Claire?