We Had It Right chords by Nellie McKay
Verse 1
Em
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Em
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B
Am
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Em
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Em
Sometimes I feel like
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I shouldn't apologize so much
Em
D
That it's jive, it's a crutch
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I just use when I'm judged
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Em
D
Being fudged by a face
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B
I can't erase and can't see
Em
D
Cause I'm his place to dossier
C
or Monty Python CD
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Em
Or something stupid like that
C
But Jesus, is that so bad?
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Em
To make my ego go splat
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C
Like a tire going flat
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Em
Or fat on a Big Mac
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C
I'm being attacked, if attacked
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Em
You fucking bur eaucrats
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C
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You can just apologize back
Em
D
But I don't know when
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it comes and it goes
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Em
D
All the highs and the lows
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B
in this motionless psychosis
Em
D
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And I, I, I, and I di ve in straight away
Em
D
C
B
I, I, I, and I cry every waking day
Am
B
I don't know what else to say
Em
C
I'm sorry for the mess
Em
The stupid way I'm dressed
C
I guess I failed my test
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Em
D
C
Oh, don't you know I'm sorry for my views
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Em
I must have been confused
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B
Am
And yes, you know that really I'm
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Em
C
Sorry for you
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Em
D
Well, now, I don't mean to offend much
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B
Just comprehend when you're female
Em
D
and you're fencing and
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B
fen -fen to no end
Em
And no zen guide to men
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C
will help you fend off the brethren
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Em
And then the pen appears,
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and better than the oxygen network
Em
Or the sword or spear or fork
D
C
or the board or fed ward
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Em
It's a mooring post,
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the whore you'll miss the
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most when you're away
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Em
When you're in snowshoe PA,
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doing some play from backstage
Em
D
It deals with AIDS and race and gays,
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relationships and ballet
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Em
An d then you're like, hey,
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yay, what'd you say?
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Baug
I can just sing my trumps
away?
Em
But then you're fucked,
cause you gotta make a buck
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And the whole world flucks
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and you're an ugly duck that's
Em
dying lyin'
C
B
Em
D
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Tryin' to slut, but there's no one buyin'
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Em
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Em
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Em
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Em
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Em
Am
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Em
D
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I'm sorry for the time,
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Em
the stupid way I rhyme,
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I knew I should've chose a life of crime
Em
C
I'm sorry for my blues,
Em
I guess it's old news,
D
C
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Am
and yet you know that really I'm
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Em
C
B
Sorry for you
Em
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Em
C
Fm
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Db
Fm
Eb
I'm I'm sorry
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Fm
Eb
I also mir ror this apology,
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this ideology of sorry
Fm
I'm part of the liberal theology
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that's leading us to Harry Carey
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Fm
Eb
It's like a mythology almost,
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like a malingering ghost
Fm
As we slowly decompose,
Db
rotting in the grave of the post
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Eb
Crying for Senator Wellstone
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and then proceeding to moan
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Eb
At our own supposed sabotage
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of the elections at home
Fm
Eb
Oh, somebody phone home,
Db
the American people have spoken
Fm
Now is that cer tain?
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Maybe it was nice
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when western folks were just joking
Fm
Eb
In any case, we'll need some dop ing,
Db
choking, moping, and sobbing
Fm
Come on, you dis heartened
and doppin'
Db
Fm
Sans -sari's my problem
Eb
So include I'm a little of truth,
Db
so it's took for me to have to allude
Fm
To all this rude,
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crude, verbal baggage,
I managed
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Cause I'm a savage inside
Fm
Eb
I'm lost to any two -inch tips
Db
And try to control my hits even for pride
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Eb
Look at my hair dyed,
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but only the end of the line
Fm
All in all, I don't wan na say
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DIE MOTHERFUCKER
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But I wouldn't mind if you did
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Eb
Janet Reno has no ego
C
when devoured by the id
Fm
Eb
So before I flip my lip
Db
and I cripple myself to the spine
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Eb
You could hear what's on my lips
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C
You don't know what's in my mind
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Eb
Db
I'm sorry for the mess
Fm
The stupid way I'm dressed
Eb
Db
I guess I failed my test
Oh, don't you know
Fm
Eb
Db
I'm sorry for my views
Fm
I don't know how to schmooze
Eb
Db
And yet you know that really
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I'm
C
Fm
Eb
Sorry for you
Db
C
Fm
Eb
Sorry for you
Db
C
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Sorry for you
Oh, I'm sorry for that shit you
We Had It Right
Nellie McKay
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