I Want to Be Well/Chords & Tabs

From Church of Sufjan

I Want to Be Well

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I WANT TO BE WELL
by Sufjan Stevens
From www.churchofsufjan.org/

Tab by Dave Graham (http://sufjanchords.wordpress.com/)

Ab                    Cm       F#
To think that I would die this time
         Db                        Ab
Isolated in the room where the bed rises
             Eb                  Bb
Photographic ordinary people are everywhere
Gm                       Ebm                 Cm
Extraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories

F#        Ab     Ebm       Db
I’ll find sleep, I’ll find peace
Cm    Ebm           Am        F#6
Or in death you’ll sleep with me

To figure that it was my fault
Or so I’ve come to realize life is not about
Love with someone, ordinary people are everywhere
Extraordinary people are, ordinary people are, ordinary people are

Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn

Illness is watching, waiting its turn

C#             F
Did I go at it wrong?
           F#          C#
Did I go intentionally to destroy me?
Bbm              Dm                      Ab           F
I’m suffering in noise I’m suffering in (touching ordinary body)

Bbm                  F                         F#        C#
The burning from within the burning from with (ordinary hysteria)
Bbm               Dm                      Ab               F
I could not be at rest, I could not be at peace (extraordinary hysteria)

Bbm              Eb                     F#              C#
So do yourself a good, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
Bbm              Eb                      F#              C#
Or do yourself a favor, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes

F#maj7  Bbm       Ebm                   Ab
Illness likes, to prey upon the lonely, prey upon the lonely
F#maj7   Bbm      Ebm                    Ab
Wave goodbye, oh, I would rather be, but I would rather be fine

F#   Ab   Ebm   Db
ooooooooooooooooooooh
Cm   Ebm  Am    F#6
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah




F#
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
Bbm7/F
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
Ebm
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
C#
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
F#
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
Ab(with a bb on top )
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well

F#
And I forgive you even
as you choke me that way
Bbm7/F
With the pill or demon
and the shrouded shalom
Ebm
Under conversation
in tremendous weight of
C#
A crowd of ages outside
dressed for murder


        Bbm
I’m not fucking around
                          Ab
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around

(Repeat three times with changes: F#  Bbm