Chords for Jim James "Wonderful" (Lawrence High School Classroom Sessions Pt.3)

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_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ It [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ _ matters [Ab] to me, _ _ _
_ [Db] _ took a long time [Ab] to get here.
_ _ _ [Db] _ But if it would have [Cm] been easy, I would [Bbm] not have cared. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ Like a tropical _ [Ab]
forest, _ _ _ [Db] like a cop on the [Ab] beat,
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When all is in [Cm] order, _ you get [Bbm] lost in the heat. _ _ _
I feel so [Db] _ wonderful, _
_ [Cm] _ wonderful, _ _ [Bbm] _
wonderful the [Eb] way I [Ab] feel.
I feel so [Db] _ wonderful, _ _ [Cm] _
wonderful now, _ _ [Bbm] wonderful the [Eb] way I [Ab] feel.
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Doesn't matter to [Ab] me, _ _ I [Db] _ could take it or [Ab] leave it.
_ _ _ _ [Db] I can learn from way [C] back when _ and still [Bbm] live right now. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ [Db] _ With the sun on [Ab] my shoulder _ _ and [Db] _ the wind at my [Ab] back,
_ _ [Bb] _ [Db] I will never grow [Cm] old, at least [Bb] not in my [Bbm] mind. _ _
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I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ feel so [Db] _ wonderful, _
_ _ [Cm] wonderful, _ _ _ [Db]
wonderful [Eb] the way I [Ab] feel.
I feel so [Db] wonderful, _ _ _ [Cm] _
wonderful, _ _ [Bbm] _ wonderful [Eb] the way I [Ab] feel.
I feel so wonderful, [Db] _ _
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[Db] wonderful, wonderful [Eb] the way I [Ab] feel.
I feel so [Db] wonderful, _ _ _
[Cm] wonderful now, _ _ [Bb] wonderful the [Eb] way I [Ab] feel. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Db] I'm going where there ain't no [Ab] fear.
_ _ I'm [Db]
going where the spirit [Ab] is near. _ _ _
I'm [Db] going where the living is [Cm] easy,
And the people [Bbm] are kind, _ a new state [Eb] of mind. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I'm [Db] going where there ain't no [Ab] police.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Db] I'm going where there ain't no [Ab] disease. _ _ _
[Db] I'm going where there ain't no [Cm] need to escape from what [Bbm] is,
Only spirits [Eb] at _ _ ease. _ _
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_ _ In class we've talked a lot about how making a movie or any art is a sense making mechanism,
a way to understand our world.
In some ways this suggests that art comes from a place of confusion [G] or doubt, a question.
In other [Abm] ways though it could mean that art is an attempt to share a moment of [N] clarity,
some certainty and answer.
For you, do you find your music generally comes from an unresolved question or from
the desire to record an answer you've discovered? _
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Maybe both.
_ _ _ I think if someone were to analyze my lyrics _ [Gb]
they'd find the most common theme is searching
or [F] like I don't know the answers or I don't know this or I don't understand this or why that.
But sometimes you do find things through searching.
I mean that's the only way to find anything is to admit that you don't know how it works
and then try and [N] figure it out.
But I think you touched on a little bit in your speaking earlier but I think there's
a myth that most of us are sold that to be an artist or to create art you have to be
miserable and you have to be suffering and it's all about sadness and everything sucks
and everything's horrible.
I feel like that's the biggest crock of bullshit.
_ It's just not fair because I think a lot of people like myself, I grew up and _ grunge was
really popular when I was young and Nirvana and Pearl Jam and all these bands that were miserable people.
I mean they made some great music no doubt but they were miserable.
And you saw your idol Kurt Cobain is this guy that's miserable and he's just like in
such pain and everything's an ordeal and everything's horrible.
And you feel really bad for him but you kind of emulate that too.
You're like well if I want to be as good as Kurt Cobain I guess I have to be really miserable too.
Everything sucks.
And you get into this whole mindset and it's fucking bullshit.
It makes me so mad.
And _ _ _ it's kind of like the broccoli theory again because maybe at a certain age you can't
even understand that it's bullshit.
But for me once I discovered Stevie Wonder and Curtis Mayfield and music that celebrated
beauty _ and said hey the world is confusing, life is hard, we do have to question it and
we do feel sad about it sometimes but life is also beautiful and life is wonderful and
there's so much more.
So I feel like _ I do a lot of questioning but also a lot of celebrating. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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