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Exactly What Nobody Wanted by Jeffrey Lewis
Exactly What Nobody Wanted
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:A
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
A F#m Bm D
(x2)
[Verse]
A F#m
You were throwing off sparks of pure power
Bm D
Sending signals from a mystery tower
A F#m
You didn't bother making sure it was sinking
Bm D
It was a different way of working and thinking
A F#m
You were really wild and completely expressive
Bm D
So creative, and intense, and obsessive
A F#m
You were practically completely beyond it
Bm D
And you were exactly just what nobody wanted
[Intro]
A F#m Bm D
[Verse]
A F#m
You were conscious and responsive and present
Bm D
You weren't trying to make something unpleasant
A F#m
You were just bouncing off of things that were trashy
Bm D
And it was never very tricky or flashy
A F#m
You had a vision that was clear and directed
Bm D
And the way the words were all unexpected
A F#m
You were unbelievable and you were undaunted
Bm D
You were exactly just what nobody wanted
[Intro]
A F#m D
[Chorus]
A F#m D
But to me it was so awesome, so awesome, so awesome.
A F#m D
So awesome, so awesome, just awesome.
[Intro]
A F#m Bm D
[Verse]
A F#m
It was like a focus in on what had been brewing
Bm D
You did a thing that no one else had been doing
A F#m
You were just small to see what made this or that tick
Bm D
Maybe you flipped it over so it all seemed galactic
A F#m
It was crazy but you nearly believed it
Bm D
You gave it everything and lived it and breathed it
A F#m
You made a space where all these good things collided
Bm D
And it made approximately no one excited
[Verse]
A F#m
It's hard to speak about the stuff you invented
Bm D
It was unique in how it all got presented
A F#m
It hit the mark and never stopped going forward
Bm D
Out of the darkness and with no signs and with no words
A F#m
You spoke a language that was instant and brutal
Bm D
And it made all the art around it seem futile
A F#m
You did it well and you could even repeat it
Bm D
And that was exactly just what nobody needed
[Intro]
A F#m D
[Chorus]
A F#m D
But to me it was so awesome, so awesome, so awesome.
A F#m D
So awesome, so awesome, just awesome.
[Break]
A Bm Dm
[Bridge]
F#m Dm
A long time waiting and leaving
F#m Dm
And that's a good, weird faith to believe in
F#m Dm
A mirror needs depth and an angle
F#m
Where the light waves wiggle and tangle
F#m
So if someone else had all your same concentration
Dm
They still couldn't reach the same destination
[Intro]
A F#m Bm D
[Verse]
A F#m
There's really something anywhere you look closely
Bm D
But a lot of it could come or go mostly
A F#m
But when something really comes a way that pretenses
Bm D
Something really takes a swing for the fences
A F#m
Something really knocks it out of the borders
Bm D
And rearranges all the usual orders
A F#m
That's exactly what the track you were on did
Bm D
And that was exactly just what nobody wanted
[Verse]
A F#m
A reserved seat, you fought it and receded
Bm D
You were so perfectly what nobody needed
A F#m
You pushed as far as you could make an idea go
Bm D
With exactly an impact of zero
A F#m
And basically the public never responded
Bm D
You were so amazingly what nobody wanted
A F#m
I held on tight to every scrap that I took in
Bm D
But it all happened when nobody was looking
[Chorus]
A F#m D
But to me it was so awesome, so awesome, so awesome.
A F#m D
You were so awesome, so awesome, just awesome.
[Intro]
A F#m Dm
A F#m Dm
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