Chords for Dar Williams "Are You Out There?" // SiriusXM

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As I [Ab] started to play music, I started to find people who were professional bluegrass players
and professional jazz players and folk artists [E] who had heard this music for the first time
in their bedrooms on a radio station.
Just this rogue airwave [Ab] coming into their window and transforming them and creating
a whole path and later a family that they could be a part of.
So I want to dedicate [Abm] this to all of the airwaves for _ introducing so many different [Bb] kinds of
music to the kids out there.
Because you know, teenagers, [Abm] that's their whole job is to have their minds blown by
something _ and to have something transform them overnight.
[Eb] And [E] in some [Eb] regard that happened to me, but [Dbm] thanks to [Eb] Sirius it's still going on.
Here we go.
This is called Are You Out There? _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Eb] Perhaps I am a miscreation, no one knows the truth, [Cm] there is no future here.
[Eb] And you're the DJ, speaks to my insomnia, and laughs [Cm] at all I have to fear.
Laughs at all I have to fear.
[Fm] You [Bb] always play the madman [Fm] poet's final [Bb] vision, grungy bands you never know still await.
[Fm] You never [Bb] know who understands [Cm] and are you out there?
Can you hear [Ab] this?
Jimmy [Bb] Olsen, Johnny [Cm] Memphis, I was out here listening [Ab] all the time.
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_ _ [Cm] And though the static won't [Ab] surround me, you were [Bb] out there and you [Cm] found me.
I was out here listening [Ab] all the _ time.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] Last night we drank in parking lots and what did we drink?
I [Cm] guess we do it cuz.
[Eb] And when I turned your station on you sounded more familiar than [Cm] that party was.
You were more familiar than that party.
[F] It's the first [Bb] time I stayed up all night.
[Fm] It's getting late, [Bb] I hear the birds, [Fm] I'm driving home [Bb] on empty streets.
I think I put my [B] shirt on [Cm] backwards.
Are you out there?
Can you hear [Ab] this?
Jimmy [Bb] Olsen, Johnny [Cm] Memphis, I was out here listening [Ab] all the time.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Cm] And though the static won't [Ab] surround me, you were [Bb] out there and you [Cm] found me.
I was out here listening [Ab] all the time.
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_ _ _ [Cm] And what's the future?
Who will [Ab] choose it?
[Bb] Politics or love and [C] music?
Underdogs [F] who turn the [Ab] tables?
[Bb] Indie versus major [Cm] labels.
There's so much to see through.
Like [Ab] our parents [Bb] do more drugs than [Cm] we do.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, [Ab] whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb]
Corporate parents, corporate town.
I know every TV [Cm] set that's got them lit.
[Eb] They preach that I should save the world.
They pray that I won't do a [Cm] better job of it.
Pray that I won't do a better job.
So [Fm] tonight [Bb] I turned your station on [Fm] just [Bb] so I'd be understood.
Instead another voice said I [Fm] was just too late [Bb] and just no _ good. _ _
_ [Dm] Calling Olsen, calling Memphis, [Bb] I am [C] calling.
Can you hear [Dm] this?
I was out here listening [Bb] all the [C] time.
[Dm] And I will write this down [Bb] and then I will not be [C] alone again.
[Dm] Yeah, I was out here listening.
Oh, [Bb] yeah, I was out [C] here listening.
[Dm] Oh, yeah, I am out here listening [Bb] all the time.
[Gm]
Yeah, [C] yeah, yeah, yeah, [F] yeah, yeah. _ _ _
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