Sufjan Stevens – I Want To Be Well chords

Capo 1. The song is in 7/8 and 5/4

G                    Bm       FTo think that I would die this time
          C                        GIsolated in the room where the bed rises
             D                   A Photographic ordinary people are everywhere
F#m                       Dm                  BmExtraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories

F         G      Dm        C I’ll find sleep, I’ll find peace
Bm    Dm            Abm       F6Or in death you’ll sleep with me

G                 Bm     FTo figure that it was my fault
                   C               GOr so I’ve come to realize life is not about
                   D                   A Love with someone, ordinary people are everywhere
F#m                        Dm                   BmExtraordinary people are, ordinary people are, ordinary people are

F          G         Dm         C Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn

Bm    Dm            Abm       F6Illness is watching, waiting its turn

C              EDid I go at it wrong?
           F          C Did I go intentionally to destroy me?
Am               Dbm                      G           EI’m suffering in noise I’m suffering in (touching ordinary body)

Am                   E                         F        CThe burning from within the burning from with (ordinary hysteria)
Am                Dbm                      G                EI could not be at rest, I could not be at peace (extraordinary hysteria)

Am               D                      E              CSo do yourself a good, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
Am               D                       E              COr do yourself a favor, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes

Fmaj7  Am        Dm                    G Illness likes, to prey upon the lonely, prey upon the lonely
Fmaj7   Am       Dm        2             G Wave goodbye, oh, I would rather be, but I would rather be fine

F   G    Dm    Cooooooooooooooooooooh
Bm   Dm   Abm    F6aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

FI want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
Am7/FI want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
Dm I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
CI want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
FI want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
G9I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well

FAnd I forgive you even
 as you choke me that way
Am7/FWith the pill or demon
 and the shrouded shalom
Dm Under conversation
in tremendous weight of
CA crowd of ages outside
dressed for murder

        F I’m not fucking around
                          G9I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around

        F I’m not fucking around
                          Am7/FI’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
        Dm I’m not fucking around
                          C I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
        F I’m not fucking around
                          G9 I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around

FAnd shall I kiss you even as you take me that way?
Am7/FWith the pill or demon as my body changes
Dm Apparitions gone awry they surround me, all sides
CBut from within I see an unholy change
        FI'm not fucking around
                          G9I'm not, I'm not, I'm not fucking around

        F I’m not fucking around
                          Am7/F I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
        Dm I’m not fucking around
                          C I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
        F I’m not fucking around
                          G9 I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around