Sufjan Stevens – I Want To Be Well (Guitar)

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Chords

Uncommon chord legend: F6: 130211 (use thumb for bass note and index for B and e strings) G9: 320201 Am/B*: x20210 [Verse 1]

G                     Bm       F
To think that I would die this time

         C/G                       G
Isolated in the room where the bed rises

             D                   A
Photographic ordinary people are everywhere

F#m                      Dm                  Bm
Extraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories

[Counterverse 1]

F         G      Dm        C
I’ll find sleep, I’ll find peace

Bm    Dm       Abm        F6
Or in death we sleep with ease

[Verse 2]

G                 Bm     F
To figure that it was my fault

                   C/G             G
Or so I’ve come to realize life is not about

                  D                   A
Love to some and, ordinary people are everywhere

F#m                       Dm                   Bm
Extraordinary people are, ordinary people are, ordinary people are

[Counterverse 2]

F          G         Dm         C
Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn

Bm         Dm        Abm         F6
Illness is watching, waiting its turn

[Bridge 1]

C                  E
    Did I go at it wrong?

           F           Dbm   Abm
Or did I go intentionally to destroy me?

Am                    Dbm                     G            Dbm  Abm
     I’m suffering in noise I’m suffering in (touching ordinary body)

Am                        E                         F        Dbm   Abm
     The burning from within the burning from with (ordinary hysteria)

Am                     Dbm                     G               Abm     E7
     I could not be at rest, I could not be at peace (extraordinary hysteria)

[Verse 3]

Am                    D                      F              C
     So do yourself a good, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes

Am                    D                       F              C    Am/C
     Or do yourself a favor, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes

[Bridge 2]

Fmaj7   Am        Dm                    G
Illness likes, to prey upon the lonely, prey upon the lonely

Fmaj7   Am         Dm                      G
When it bites, oh, I would rather be dead I would rather give up

[Interlude]

F   G    Dm    C
ooooooooooooooooooooh

Bm   Dm   Abm    F6
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[Chorus 1]

  F
I want to be well, I want to be well