I Want To Be Well Chords & Lyrics Artist: Sufjan Stevens

Capo 1. The song is in 7/8 and 5/4
 
Uncommon chord legend:
F6: 130211 (use thumb for bass note and index for B and e strings)
G9: 320201
Am/B*: x20210
 
 
VERSE 1
G                     Bm       F
To think that I would die this time
         C/G                       G
Isolated in the room where the bed rises
             D                   A
Photographic ordinary people are everywhere
F#m                      Dm                  Bm
Extraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories
 
[Counterverse 1]
F         G      Dm        C
I’ll find sleep, I’ll find peace
Bm    Dm       Abm        F6
Or in death we sleep with ease
 
VERSE 2
G                 Bm     F
To figure that it was my fault
                   C/G             G
Or so I’ve come to realize life is not about
                  D                   A
Love to some and, ordinary people are everywhere
F#m                       Dm                   Bm
Extraordinary people are, ordinary people are, ordinary people are
 
[Counterverse 2]
F          G         Dm         C
Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn
Bm         Dm        Abm         F6
Illness is watching, waiting its turn
 
BRIDGE 1
C                  E
    Did I go at it wrong?
           F           Dbm   Abm
Or did I go intentionally to destroy me?
Am                    Dbm                     G            Dbm  Abm
     I’m suffering in noise I’m suffering in (touching ordinary body)
Am                        E                         F        Dbm   Abm
     The burning from within the burning from with (ordinary hysteria)
Am                     Dbm                     G               Abm     E7
     I could not be at rest, I could not be at peace (extraordinary hysteria)
 
VERSE 3
Am                    D                      F              C
     So do yourself a good, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
Am                    D                       F              C    Am/C
     Or do yourself a favor, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
 
BRIDGE 2
Fmaj7   Am        Dm                    G
Illness likes, to prey upon the lonely, prey upon the lonely
Fmaj7   Am         Dm                      G
When it bites, oh, I would rather be dead I would rather give up
 
INTERLUDE
F   G    Dm    C
ooooooooooooooooooooh
Bm   Dm   Abm    F6
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
 
CHORUS 1
  F
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
  C
I 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
  C/G
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
  Am/E
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
  G9
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
 
VERSE 4
F                                               Am/C
    And I forgive you even
 as you choke me that way
                    Am/B*                    Dm/A
With the pill or demon
 and the shrouded shalom
                Dm/A                     C/G
Under conversation
 in tremendous weight of
                      C/F
A crowd of ages outside 
dressed for murder

        Am/E
I’m not fucking around
                          G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not
 
CHORUS 2
        F
I’m not fucking around
                          Am/C
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Am/B*                 Dm/A
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                          C/G
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    C/F                   Am/E
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                          G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not
 
VERSE 5
F                                                 Am/C
    And shall I kiss you even as you take me that way?
                    Am/B*               Dm/A
With the pill or demon as my body changes
                    Dm/A                        C/G
Apparitions gone awry they surround me, all sides
                       C/F
But from within I see it, unholy changes
        Am/E
I'm not fucking around
                          G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not
 
CHORUS 3
        F
I’m not fucking around
                          Am/C
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Am/B*                 Dm/A
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                          C/G
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    C/F                   Am/E
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                          G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not
 
 
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