R.E.M. – I Wanted To Be Wrong (Guitar)

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[Intro] E B7 E B7 E B7sus4 E B [Verse 1]
  E             B7sus4
You know where I come from

  E             B7sus4
You know what I feel

  E               B7sus4
You're Yul Brenner Westworld

 E                B7
Reporting from the field

  E             B7sus4
I threw it into reverse

  E            B7sus4
Made a motion to repeal

   E              B7
You kicked my legs from under me

    E
And tried to take the wheel
[Chorus]
  A                  B
I told you I wanted to be wrong

  A                  Bsus4
But everyone is humming a song

  A                   B7sus4
That I don't understand
[Verse 2]
      E             B               E                B
Now I know that the sun has shined on my side of the street

       E          B          E               B
The basket of America, the weevils and the wheat

      E           B            E                  B
The milk and honeyed congregation, scrubbed and apple-cheeked

      E            B7sus4         E          B
Salute Apollo 13 from the rattle jewelry seats

      E            B            E           B7sus4
Mythology's seductive and it turned a trick on me

     E              E
That I have just begun to understand
[Chorus]
     A           B
I told you I wanted to be wrong

    A            B
But everyone is humming a song

    A            B7sus4
That I don't understand
[Verse 3]
    E             B            E               B
The rodeo is staged, gold circle goat-ropers and clowns

     E             B            E               B
A rumble in the third act, tie 'em up and burn 'em down

    E             B            E               B
We're armed to the teeth, born a little breech

       E             B            E               B
Blue-plate special analysts, cells and SUV's

       E             B            E               B
We can't approach the Allies cause they seem a little peeved

       E             B            E               B7sus4
And speak a language we don't understand
[Chorus]
    A              B
I told you I wanted to be wrong

    A              B
But everyone is humming a song

    A              B7sus4
That I don't understand
[Outro]
   E             B            E               B
Storm into the boardroom of the conquering elite

   E             B            E               B
Did you recognize the madman who is shouting in the streets?

    E             B            E               B
Destroy the things that I don't understand

  E             B            E      B7sus4
Destroy the things that I don't understand