Jets To Brazil
Wish List
Perfecting Loneliness
2002 Jade Tree Records
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com
Key: E
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
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
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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
