Chords for Morgan Wade - This is Morgan Wade

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I'm from a small town, Boyd, Virginia.
_ Born and raised there, one stoplight town.
More cows than people, pretty much.
I spent a lot of time growing up going to the Boyd Country Store.
It's a big tourist attraction there.
So that was really my first introduction to live music.
Spent a lot of Friday nights falling asleep on my grandpa's lap,
listening to bluegrass music.
That kind of led to me picking up the fiddle,
which is what I [D] thought I was going to be playing.
I stepped [A] into lessons, which ended [F#m] up being classical Suzuki, [D] _ which I hated.
[E] My grandmother [C#] bought me a guitar.
_ [D] That's when I started _ [A] playing and writing [F#m] songs.
As a kid, I mean, I [D] would [A] like to say I was [E] quiet,
but at the same time I was not quiet.
[A] But I always did feel [E] like there [E] were parts of me that I kept pretty hidden.
Obviously the music.
[A] _ [E] From an early age, people told me my [F#m] voice was weird. _
[C#m] We grew [A] up listening [E] to Shania Twain and Faith Hill,
and they had these crystal clear voices,
and then mine had this bit of gravel to it
that was a little [E] different than what any of us kids running around were used to listening to.
So I guess it makes sense.
But I was always okay with my voice
[C#m] because I continued to write and to sing for myself.
[E] So I think [D] that's what helps me be as authentic today [F#m] with my music as I am.
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I think I was about seven [E] when I wrote my first song.
[F#m] I think it was just [D] something that I just gravitated towards.
It was [C#m] just something that I did, [F#m] something I enjoyed.
_ [A] I can't really remember a pivotal moment when I sat down and wrote something.
It was just always something that I did.
Some people [F#m] journal, but I [E] wrote songs.
[A] _ All of my songs are real life,
[F#m] whether they've happened to [C#m] me or someone [Bm] I know or someone I've watched.
I try to write [F#m] about authentic things.
There's only so many things I [A] myself can [E] experience.
So as long as I can take from something real to someone else around [Bm] me
because it had happened to them, I feel I've done my job [F#m] as a songwriter.
I look back at the [D] wilder days that I wrote,
and I wonder why I had to experience [E] some of the things I experienced to write that
and realize that's what got me here.
_ It's kind of harder to feel in that moment.
Sometimes [C#m] even when writing that song, I don't [A] understand it.
But looking [C#m] back later, [E] I get why things happened the way they did to put me in that moment.
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Signing with Sony [A] _ was obviously a huge deal.
I look back at [E] the kid that I was, wondering if I was good enough to do anything.
Here [A] I am, 26 years old, signed to a major label with [C#] all these amazing artists here,
and met Randy and started talking [A] to him.
I was like, okay, this guy really actually listened to my record.
He [E] actually knows these lyrics, and he's interested.
I [G#m] really just started to think for myself.
I feel like this is a good [C#m] move.
I feel like these are people that believe in me,
and they have the resources to [A] really help me push my record
and get out there and do more [B] than what I could ever do on an indie label.
When I met [E] Randy, _ I thought to myself, I have to have one little weird demand.
[A] _ I was like, you need to get me a dog.
[C#m] I want a French bulldog, and if you get me a French bulldog, I'll name him Sony, after the label.
[A] So he got me a French bulldog, and his name is Sony.
_ [E] He's way cooler than I'll ever be.
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_ _ You say you hate the [E] smell of cigarette smoke
_ You want to [A] release the smoke when you drink
When [C#m] you leave this apartment, I'm going to shoot away the windows
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Now I should know you and your wilder [E] days
Now here we go
You got me falling [G#m] in love again
You got [C#m] me sleeping, I want to keep it
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Now I should know you and your wilder [E] days
_ [G#m] Wilder Days is a song that [C#] I think a lot of us can [G#m] really connect [C#m] with.
I think that maybe we've all had that one person that we feel [A] got away,
right person, wrong time.
_ [E] If we would have met just a few years earlier, it really would have worked out,
and we would have been on the same level, and we would have either really had a good thing
or made a really big mess, but it would have really worked out.
It just didn't [C#m] happen to go that way.
If I was to take anything away [A] from it, it would just be not to lose that [E] wilder side of yourself,
and to not conform, and to [G#m] _ stay true, and _ do the things you [C#m] want to freaking do,
because you get one life. _ _
_ _ [A] I wouldn't say I'm brave.
Am I crazy?
Absolutely.
You can [B] listen to the record and tell that.
But I think just being honest and being real [E] and genuine is the only way I know how to write.
I mean, [A] if I listened to everything that everyone ever told me to do, I wouldn't be where [C#m] I'm at.
So if reckless is not obeying the rules, and [A] reckless is making your own path,
then I think it's a great thing, and [E] I think it was the perfect title for this record.
So [G#m] when you do the things that I've done, you appear reckless,
but if [C#m] that's how they want to perceive living, I'm okay with that.
I don't [A] know what the future holds and how long this will [E] be,
but all I know is I want all of it, everything I can get, everything I can do.
I want to do it. _ _ _ _
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