Sari chords by Nellie McKay
Verse 1
Em
C
B
Em
C
B
Am
B
Em
C
B
Sometimes I
Em
D
C
feel like I shouldn't apologize so much
Em
That it's jive it's a crutch
D
C
I just used when I'm judged
B
Em
D
Bein' fudged by a face I can't
C
erase and can't see
B
Em
'Cause I misplaced a dossier
D
C
or Monty Python CD
B
Em
Or somethin' stu pid like that
C
But Jesus is that so bad
B
Em
To make my ego go splat
D
C
Like a tire goin' flat
B
Em
Or fat on a big mac
D
C
I'm bein' attacked
B
Tit for tat
Em
You fuckin' bur eaucrats
D
C
B
You can just apologize back
Verse 2
Em
D
C
But I don't know when it comes and it goes
B
Em
All the highs and the lows
D
C
B
Em
In this motionless psychosis
D
C
Ieeieei and I die fadin'
B
Em
straight away
D
C
B
Ieeieei and I cry every waking day
Am
B
I don't know what else to say
Verse 3
Em
C
I'm sorry for the mess
Em
The stupid way I'm dressed
C
I guess I failed my test
B
Em
D
C
Oh don't you know I'm sorry for my views
B
Em
I musta been confused
C
And yet you know that really
B
Am
B
Em
I'm sorry for you
C
B
Well now I
Verse 4
Em
D
don't mean to offend, much
C
B
Just comprehend
Em
When you're female and
D
you're fenced in and
C
B
Phen- phened to no end
Em
D
And no zen guide to men will help
C
you fend off the brethren
B
Em
And then the pen appears
C
And better than the oxygen network
Em
Or the sword or the spear or the fork
D
C
Or the bored pork- fed horde
B
Em
It's a mooring post
D
C
The whore you'll miss the most
when you're away
B
Em
When you're in Snowshoe PA
C
Doin' some play from Backstage
Em
That deals with AIDS
D
and race and gays and
C
Relationships and ballet
B
Em
And then you're like "hey yay
D
what'd you say?
C
Baug
I can just sing my troubles
away?"
Em
But then you're fucked
'Cause you gotta make a buck
C
And the whole world sucks
B
And you're like a lame duck
Em
That's lyin' dyin' tryin'
to sell out
C
But there's no one buyin' and
B
there's all this doubt
Em
And you can preen and dream and
D
scream and shot
C
B
Em
But your life's affliction is the fiction of Faust
D
C
Em
C
Em
C
B
Em
C
Em
Verse 5
Am
B
Em
D
C
I'm sorry for the time
B
Em
The stupid way I rhyme
C
I knew I shoulda chose a life of crime
Em
C
I'm sorry for my blues
Em
I know it's all old news
D
C
And yet you know that really
B
Am
B
Em
I'm sorry for you
C
B
I'm
Verse 6
Em
C
Em
C
sorry I'm sorry I'm
Fm
Db
Fm
Eb
Db
sorry I'm sorry
Fm
Eb
I also mirror this apology
Db
This ideology of sorry
Fm
Eb
In part of the liberal theology that's
Db
C
leading us to hari- kari
Fm
Eb
It's like a mythology, almost
Db
Like a malingering ghost
Fm
As we slowly decompose
Db
Writing in the grave of the polls
Fm
Eb
Cryin' for Sen ator Wellstone and then proceed
Db
ing to moan
Fm
Eb
At our own supposed sabotage
Db
of the elections at home
Fm
Eb
"Oh somebody phone home!
Db
The American people
have spoken!"
Fm
Now is that cer tain?
Eb
Maybe those nice Midwestern
Db
folks were just jokin'
Fm
Eb
In any case there's no use in dopin'
Db
chokin' mopin' and sobbin'
Fm
Come on you dis heartenin'
dobbins
Db
Fm
Sayin' sorry is my problem
So to conclude
Eb
I'm a little of a prude
Db
So it's difficult for me to have to allude
Fm
To all this rude crude verbal
Eb
baggage
Db
But I manage
'cause I'm a savage inside
Fm
Eb
I may listen to Enya's greatest hits
Db
And try to control my hissy fits with pride
Fm
Eb
Won't get my hair dyed
Db
But oh the onus of lyin' all the time
Fm
I don't want to say, "diiiie
Eb
motherfucker!"
Db
But I wouldn't mind
if you did
Fm
Sometimes even the nice girl's
Eb
C
ego has to override the id
Fm
Eb
And so before I flip my lid my crib
Db
And get myself out of this bind
Fm
You can hear what's on my
Eb
Db
lips but you don't know
C
What's in my mind
Verse 7
Fm
Eb
Db
Fm
Eb
Db
I'm sorry
Fm
Eb
Db
for you
Fm
Eb
Db
Bbm
Bb
I'm
C
Fm
sorry for you
Eb
Db
I'm sorry
C
Waaaah
Outro 1
Fm
Eb
Db
C
Bb
C
Bb
Sari
Nellie McKay
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