The W.A.N.D. Explained chords by
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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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This song started off uh as I think

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the most incomplete ideas

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We probably have ever brought

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today from the studio

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Which is again, it,

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people often asks how does it work

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Do you do this stuff at home and take

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it to Dave Fridmann

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And, and then he just sort of,

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you know, puts some finishing touches on it

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How they work is all

Verse 2

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different

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ways, sometimes we justbarely

Have an idea,

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always a lot of enthusiasm and energy

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But we barely have any idea 'bout what we wanna do,

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and sometimes something

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Marvelous happens and take it

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to a whole new direction

Verse 3

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And so, um, I think I had this riff uhm,

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the "do do dinlo" part

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Uhm, uhm and then you play the great

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sort of funky understated beat

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Uhm and then you, you, you came up with the idea,

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um, Steven, about, yeah

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It calling it The W.A.N.D

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Yeah I had a picture on my desktop

Verse 4

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I dont know why just had a picture of, like,

a wand with

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Some sparkly sprinkly things around,

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and I thought that would be cool theme

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For like a psychedelic, like a prog rock band

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or something (sure yeah)

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Called the wand will be name of the band

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(Oh I see, right)

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And then it sort of like,

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it just went from there over a song called the wand

It seemed a little more beautiful

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(yeah, yeah)

Verse 5

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And I think at first we had a line like

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You got the power

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waving you on in the air

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And that was all we had and so, um

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And I think we did it for couple

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of months and it probably just

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And then we little by little

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changed into more of a song

Verse 6

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But yeah againit shows you the,

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sometimes that's a sort of freedom of working with

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Someone like Dave Fridmann is you don't-

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I have to be so prepared

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Sometimes not be ing prepared lets you

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breathe and discover some ideas

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Along the way and I think it's one of the craziest,

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most un expected, um, strangest tracks

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I think we ever recorded

Verse 7

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Yeah, I think this song, this to me is when it really

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started to seem like we were actually

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Working on the record, I mean 'cause we recorded Mr. Ambulance

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F#m

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Driver but that was done in June of 2004

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(Right, yeah) and we got bogged down with all these side projects we had to do,

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we did the bo hemian rapsody cover

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We did a song with Sparklehorse for the David Johnston tribute,

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we did the Thievery Corporation track

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And we actually did this it felt like ok,

now we're working on this new record

And I think it really energizes to

move forward from there

Verse 8

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Yeah, yeah, suddenly we discovered something

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new radical and fun and different

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And I don't mean bogged down like "ugh we have

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to work on some other things", it's just you

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No I did

Verse 9

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You move away from finding a new direction,

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be cause

You are just sorta working on other things,

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Yeah yeah here we go

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