Chords for Aimee Mann-The making of Mental Illness
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D
G
Bm
A
F#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[B] [F#m] The name of my new record is Mental Illness.
A friend of mine was asking me [D] what my new record was about.
And I said, you know, it's my usual [A] songs about mental illness.
And they [F#] said, well, you should call it Mental Illness,
[A] which was meant as a joke, but once they [B] said it,
it was so [F#m] perverse but also accurate
that [D] I really could not consider anything else.
[A] Life is good, [E] you look around and think [F#m] I'm in love
There's [A] 2 or 3 [Bm] songs who are written about someone
that I knew who [F#m] was bipolar, [Am] and [E] there's also songs
about someone [A] who [Bm] I knew [F#m] that had possibly
is on the spectrum of sociopaths.
People who are crazier, [D] you know, present company included,
[A] are bigger [F#m] puzzles to solve, and I like a good puzzle.
I [Bm] tried to keep this record really [F#m] acoustic, [D] which is,
it's hard because when [Bm] you're in the studio,
it's [F#m] [D]
kind of irresistible to want to keep adding instruments
because that's just fun, [A] but by and large,
it's pretty stripped down and acoustic.
[G] In the beginning, [D] my producer Paul Bryan and [G] I
had talked about having [D] strings on a couple of [Bm] songs.
Once I started [D] hearing the string arrangements,
[C] I definitely wanted to [Em] have more.
It's also just [G] exciting to [D] record and have [G] real strings,
like a real [D] string session.
[G] I was listening to [D] a lot of easy listening records
[A] from the [Bm] 70s where they would [D] have these [G] banks
of very [D] soft oohs, and I really [Bm] liked that,
like [D] maybe the starkness of just one [G] acoustic guitar,
but [D]
a [Bm] multiplicity of [D]
diaphanous oohs.
[C] So that's kind of an approach that [Em] blends in with the [Bm] strings
[D] throughout the record.
[G] Paul's arrangements were really [D] beautiful.
[C] Right down [G]
as [C] the [G]
legend
So one [D] of the people who plays on the record is [Bm] Jonathan Colton.
[C] He is an [Em] Internet [G]-famous, nerd-centric [D]
songwriter,
but he's [G] really great.
I know that [D] description does not sound great.
[Bm] And actually my [D] record label, Super Ego,
is putting out his new record at about the same time as mine.
So the first song on the record, Goose No Come,
I was [Bm] on tour in Ireland,
[A] and it [F#m] was snowing [D] and cold and depressing outside.
And I saw on Instagram a picture of my cat friend [Bm] Goose.
His [F#m] little face looked like a [D] white snowball.
Just looking at her face made me feel very homesick,
and [G] so then the song kind of [D] morphed into this musing
on [Bm]
feeling lonely and [A] homesick.
And then I thought, [D] well, can I really?
Nobody's going to know what Goose No [Bm] Come means.
[A] And I tried to change it, but I [D] couldn't figure out
something to change [G] it to, and I just thought,
I'm letting it stand.
I [A] was just thinking about this record, I'm like,
[D] yep, that is as sad [G] and depressing as I [D] intended.
Yep, that is also very sad and [A] depressing.
Music to me [D] is such an [G] intimate
somebody's talking [D] to you in this very intimate way.
[A] And I want to feel that that [D] person could [G] possibly understand
[D] complicated feelings that [A] I have.
And I want people who listen to my stuff to feel that way about me,
that I could be somebody who would [G] understand
their complicated feelings.
Singing
[D] [Bm]
[F#m] [D]
[G]
A friend of mine was asking me [D] what my new record was about.
And I said, you know, it's my usual [A] songs about mental illness.
And they [F#] said, well, you should call it Mental Illness,
[A] which was meant as a joke, but once they [B] said it,
it was so [F#m] perverse but also accurate
that [D] I really could not consider anything else.
[A] Life is good, [E] you look around and think [F#m] I'm in love
There's [A] 2 or 3 [Bm] songs who are written about someone
that I knew who [F#m] was bipolar, [Am] and [E] there's also songs
about someone [A] who [Bm] I knew [F#m] that had possibly
is on the spectrum of sociopaths.
People who are crazier, [D] you know, present company included,
[A] are bigger [F#m] puzzles to solve, and I like a good puzzle.
I [Bm] tried to keep this record really [F#m] acoustic, [D] which is,
it's hard because when [Bm] you're in the studio,
it's [F#m] [D]
kind of irresistible to want to keep adding instruments
because that's just fun, [A] but by and large,
it's pretty stripped down and acoustic.
[G] In the beginning, [D] my producer Paul Bryan and [G] I
had talked about having [D] strings on a couple of [Bm] songs.
Once I started [D] hearing the string arrangements,
[C] I definitely wanted to [Em] have more.
It's also just [G] exciting to [D] record and have [G] real strings,
like a real [D] string session.
[G] I was listening to [D] a lot of easy listening records
[A] from the [Bm] 70s where they would [D] have these [G] banks
of very [D] soft oohs, and I really [Bm] liked that,
like [D] maybe the starkness of just one [G] acoustic guitar,
but [D]
a [Bm] multiplicity of [D]
diaphanous oohs.
[C] So that's kind of an approach that [Em] blends in with the [Bm] strings
[D] throughout the record.
[G] Paul's arrangements were really [D] beautiful.
[C] Right down [G]
as [C] the [G]
legend
So one [D] of the people who plays on the record is [Bm] Jonathan Colton.
[C] He is an [Em] Internet [G]-famous, nerd-centric [D]
songwriter,
but he's [G] really great.
I know that [D] description does not sound great.
[Bm] And actually my [D] record label, Super Ego,
is putting out his new record at about the same time as mine.
So the first song on the record, Goose No Come,
I was [Bm] on tour in Ireland,
[A] and it [F#m] was snowing [D] and cold and depressing outside.
And I saw on Instagram a picture of my cat friend [Bm] Goose.
His [F#m] little face looked like a [D] white snowball.
Just looking at her face made me feel very homesick,
and [G] so then the song kind of [D] morphed into this musing
on [Bm]
feeling lonely and [A] homesick.
And then I thought, [D] well, can I really?
Nobody's going to know what Goose No [Bm] Come means.
[A] And I tried to change it, but I [D] couldn't figure out
something to change [G] it to, and I just thought,
I'm letting it stand.
I [A] was just thinking about this record, I'm like,
[D] yep, that is as sad [G] and depressing as I [D] intended.
Yep, that is also very sad and [A] depressing.
Music to me [D] is such an [G] intimate
somebody's talking [D] to you in this very intimate way.
[A] And I want to feel that that [D] person could [G] possibly understand
[D] complicated feelings that [A] I have.
And I want people who listen to my stuff to feel that way about me,
that I could be somebody who would [G] understand
their complicated feelings.
Singing
[D] [Bm]
[F#m] [D]
[G]
Key:
D
G
Bm
A
F#m
D
G
Bm
[B] _ _ [F#m] _ _ The name of my new record is Mental Illness.
A friend of mine was asking me [D] what my new record was about.
And I said, you know, it's my usual _ [A] songs about mental illness.
And they [F#] said, well, you should call it Mental Illness,
[A] which was meant as a joke, but once they [B] said it,
it was so [F#m] perverse but also _ accurate
that [D] I really could not consider anything else.
[A] Life is good, [E] you look around and think [F#m] I'm in love
There's [A] 2 or 3 [Bm] songs who are written about someone
that I knew who [F#m] was bipolar, [Am] and [E] there's also songs
about someone [A] who [Bm] I knew [F#m] that had _ possibly
is on the spectrum of _ sociopaths.
People who are crazier, [D] you know, present company included,
[A] are bigger [F#m] puzzles to solve, and I like a good puzzle.
_ I [Bm] tried to keep this record really [F#m] acoustic, [D] which is,
it's hard because when [Bm] you're in the studio,
it's [F#m] _ [D]
kind of irresistible to want to keep adding instruments
because that's just fun, [A] but by and large,
it's pretty stripped down and acoustic.
[G] _ In the beginning, [D] my producer Paul Bryan and [G] I
had talked about having [D] strings on a couple of [Bm] songs.
Once I started [D] hearing the string arrangements,
[C] I definitely wanted to [Em] have more.
It's also just [G] exciting to [D] record and have [G] real strings,
like a real [D] string session.
[G] I was listening to [D] a lot of easy listening records
[A] from the [Bm] 70s where they would [D] have these [G] banks
of very [D] soft oohs, and I really [Bm] liked that,
like [D] maybe the starkness of just one [G] acoustic guitar,
but [D]
a _ [Bm] multiplicity of [D]
diaphanous oohs.
[C] So that's kind of an approach that [Em] blends in with the [Bm] strings
_ [D] throughout the record.
[G] Paul's arrangements were really [D] beautiful.
_ [C] Right down _ _ [G] _
as [C] the _ _ [G] _
legend_
So one [D] of the people who plays on the record is [Bm] Jonathan Colton.
[C] He is an [Em] Internet [G]-famous, nerd-centric _ [D]
songwriter,
but he's [G] really great.
I know that [D] description does not sound great.
[Bm] And actually my [D] record label, Super Ego,
is putting out his new record at about the same time as mine.
So the first song on the record, Goose No Come,
_ I was [Bm] on tour in Ireland,
[A] and it [F#m] was snowing [D] and cold and depressing outside.
_ And I saw on Instagram a picture of my cat friend [Bm] Goose.
His [F#m] little face looked like a [D] white snowball.
Just looking at her face made me feel very homesick,
and [G] so then the song kind of [D] morphed into this musing
on _ [Bm]
feeling lonely and [A] homesick.
And then I thought, [D] well, can I really?
Nobody's going to know what Goose No [Bm] Come means.
[A] And I tried to change it, but I [D] couldn't figure out
something to change [G] it to, and I just thought,
I'm letting it stand.
I [A] was just thinking about this record, I'm like,
[D] yep, that is as sad [G] and depressing as I [D] intended.
Yep, that is also very sad and [A] depressing.
Music to me [D] is such an [G] intimate_
somebody's talking [D] to you in this very intimate way.
[A] And I want to feel that that [D] person could [G] possibly understand
[D] complicated feelings that [A] I have.
And I want people who listen to my stuff to feel that way about me,
that I could be somebody who would [G] understand
their complicated feelings.
Singing_
[D] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
A friend of mine was asking me [D] what my new record was about.
And I said, you know, it's my usual _ [A] songs about mental illness.
And they [F#] said, well, you should call it Mental Illness,
[A] which was meant as a joke, but once they [B] said it,
it was so [F#m] perverse but also _ accurate
that [D] I really could not consider anything else.
[A] Life is good, [E] you look around and think [F#m] I'm in love
There's [A] 2 or 3 [Bm] songs who are written about someone
that I knew who [F#m] was bipolar, [Am] and [E] there's also songs
about someone [A] who [Bm] I knew [F#m] that had _ possibly
is on the spectrum of _ sociopaths.
People who are crazier, [D] you know, present company included,
[A] are bigger [F#m] puzzles to solve, and I like a good puzzle.
_ I [Bm] tried to keep this record really [F#m] acoustic, [D] which is,
it's hard because when [Bm] you're in the studio,
it's [F#m] _ [D]
kind of irresistible to want to keep adding instruments
because that's just fun, [A] but by and large,
it's pretty stripped down and acoustic.
[G] _ In the beginning, [D] my producer Paul Bryan and [G] I
had talked about having [D] strings on a couple of [Bm] songs.
Once I started [D] hearing the string arrangements,
[C] I definitely wanted to [Em] have more.
It's also just [G] exciting to [D] record and have [G] real strings,
like a real [D] string session.
[G] I was listening to [D] a lot of easy listening records
[A] from the [Bm] 70s where they would [D] have these [G] banks
of very [D] soft oohs, and I really [Bm] liked that,
like [D] maybe the starkness of just one [G] acoustic guitar,
but [D]
a _ [Bm] multiplicity of [D]
diaphanous oohs.
[C] So that's kind of an approach that [Em] blends in with the [Bm] strings
_ [D] throughout the record.
[G] Paul's arrangements were really [D] beautiful.
_ [C] Right down _ _ [G] _
as [C] the _ _ [G] _
legend_
So one [D] of the people who plays on the record is [Bm] Jonathan Colton.
[C] He is an [Em] Internet [G]-famous, nerd-centric _ [D]
songwriter,
but he's [G] really great.
I know that [D] description does not sound great.
[Bm] And actually my [D] record label, Super Ego,
is putting out his new record at about the same time as mine.
So the first song on the record, Goose No Come,
_ I was [Bm] on tour in Ireland,
[A] and it [F#m] was snowing [D] and cold and depressing outside.
_ And I saw on Instagram a picture of my cat friend [Bm] Goose.
His [F#m] little face looked like a [D] white snowball.
Just looking at her face made me feel very homesick,
and [G] so then the song kind of [D] morphed into this musing
on _ [Bm]
feeling lonely and [A] homesick.
And then I thought, [D] well, can I really?
Nobody's going to know what Goose No [Bm] Come means.
[A] And I tried to change it, but I [D] couldn't figure out
something to change [G] it to, and I just thought,
I'm letting it stand.
I [A] was just thinking about this record, I'm like,
[D] yep, that is as sad [G] and depressing as I [D] intended.
Yep, that is also very sad and [A] depressing.
Music to me [D] is such an [G] intimate_
somebody's talking [D] to you in this very intimate way.
[A] And I want to feel that that [D] person could [G] possibly understand
[D] complicated feelings that [A] I have.
And I want people who listen to my stuff to feel that way about me,
that I could be somebody who would [G] understand
their complicated feelings.
Singing_
[D] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _