Chords for Steve Poltz - You Were Meant For Me (Live in Sydney) | Moshcam

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_ This is [G] a song from a guy's perspective.
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_ _ _ [G] _ I hear [Bm] the clock and it's 6 a.m.
[C] _ It feels so far from where [Em] I've been. _
_ _ [G] _ I got my eggs, I got my pancakes [Bm] too.
_ [C] Well, I got my maple syrup, [D] everything but you. _ _
_ [C] _ [G] I'll break the yolks and make a smile on your face.
[C] I kind of like it in [E] my brand new _ [Em] place.
[G] I wipe the spots off of the mirror, don't [Bm] leave the keys in a dull.
[C] I never put wet towels on [D] the floor anymore.
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_ Cause dreams last for [D] so long, _ _
[G] _ _ [D] even after [Em] you're gone.
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[C] _ And I know [D] that you love [A] me, [G]
and soon [D] I know you will [Em] see.
[E] _ You [Am]
[C] were meant for me, _ _ [D] and I was [G] meant for [Em] you. _ _ _ _
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[G] _ I [Bm] called my mom, but [G] she was out for a walk.
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[C] I sold a cup of coffee, but I [E] didn't want to talk.
[Em] _ _ _
[G] _ I picked up the paper, it was more bad news.
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[C] More hearts being broken, [D] more people being used.
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_ Put on my coat in the pouring rain.
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[C] _ I saw a movie, but [Em] it wasn't the same. _ _ _
[G] _ It was happy, _ I was sad, yeah.
[C] _ It made me miss you, [A] oh so bad.
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_ Cause dreams last for [D] so long, _ _ [G] _
_ _ even after [Em] you're gone.
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[C] _ And I know [D] that you love me, [G]
and soon I know you will [Em] see.
_ [E] _ _ You were [C] meant for me, _ _ [D] and I was [Em] meant for you. _ _ _ _
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[Am] I go about my business [D] and I'm doing fine.
[Bm] Besides, what would you say [D] if I had you [C] on the line?
_ [Am] _
Same old story, [D] not _ much to say.
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_ Hearts are [G] broken every [E] _ day, _ _ _ _ oh [G] yeah. _
_ _ _ [Bm] So ladies and gentlemen of the Metro in Sydney, New South Wales,
I got to tell you, there's a television show in the United States of America
that I've only seen once in my life.
[D] It's very popular, and it's called American Idol.
[Em] I don't know if you've ever heard of it, [Cm] but it makes people [G] stars overnight.
People's dreams are made.
And I have to tell you, a lot [C] of musicians, they don't like this show
because it makes people [Em] famous, and they say they didn't [G] pay their dues.
But me, I'm not a hater.
If you like those kind of shows, I send more power [C] to you.
I'm full of love.
That's all I care [Em] about.
In fact, I don't really [C] hate anything, [D] except for if [G] you offer me your seat,
and I have to sit on it while it's still warm from your butt.
[C] I don't like that because I'm afraid [E] your butt molecules are going to crawl up mine
and mix it up, and I'll [G] get sick.
[C] But other than that, I probably don't hate [G] anything.
So anyways, it was the season [C] premiere of this show on the Fox television [Em] network
with like 22 million viewers [A] or something.
I don't have time to watch TV, [G] but Jewel was a guest host,
and my friends [C] called me, and they said,
Dude, your song's going to be [Em] on the show.
And if it's on [G] for more than 17 seconds, you cash in and make a lot of money,
and you can afford to buy maybe even the Metro [Ab] in Sydney, [C] Nova Scotia.
Not Nova Scotia.
Sydney, [Em] New South Wales. _
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So Jewel's a guest host, and this girl [Cm] comes down from Minneapolis, Minnesota
from the [Em] Mall of America to audition to be the next American [C] Idol,
and she sings You Were Meant for [Bm] Me.
So I get my stopwatch out to see if it's [C] going to be on for more than 17 seconds,
but [E] the girl's singing it so poorly that I [C] realize what the show's about at that moment.
It's [G] like watching a car wreck and watching somebody [Cm] fail.
And when she finishes, they ask [B] Jewel, What did you think?
And she says, I don't want to say anything.
[C] So then they go to Randy, What did you think?
[G] And this guy goes, Those clothes you're wearing are terrible.
[C] I didn't like your presentation.
I didn't [Em] like it at all.
Well, the girl's eyes [C] start filling up with tears,
just like she was at the [Bm] sushi train all alone in Sydney one night before [C] her show.
And she's feeling that sense of sadness.
[E] So I figure maybe this last judge [C] is nice.
He's from England.
His name's Simon.
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God, _ you guys, [C] I got to tell you, this is the meanest guy I've ever [Em] seen.
He goes, That [G] was bloody awful.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Well, she's sobbing.
She runs into the arms of her mother.
They got cameras just like these guys going right up her nose
so they can see the [Em] snot's running out.
She's crying like this.
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_ _ _ She's just sobbing.
It's the most awful thing I've ever [Cm] seen.
Right at that moment, I said to myself, I [Em] wish I never wrote that song.
If I could go back in [D] time and not have written this song
and [G] not have gone on the drug bust, maybe this would have [C] never been written.
If I could travel in time [Em] like Billy Pilgrim in the book Slaughterhouse-Five [C] by Kurt Vonnegut,
[D] I would have gone [G] back and not written this song
and there would have been one less [Cm] girl with her feelings hurt that wasn't the next American Idol.
[Em] But then I realized the song was on for 38 seconds, so I said, Fuck it. _ _ _ _
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_ [Cm] _ _ _ [G] I brush my teeth, I put the cap back [Bm] on.
_ [C] _ I know you hate it when I leave [Em] the light on.
I _ [G] pick a book up and I turn the sheets [Bm] down, yeah.
[C] I take a drink [D] and I get a look around. _
_ [G] _ Put on my [G] PJs and I hop in the bed.
[Bm] _
_ [C] _ I'm half alive [E] but I feel mostly [Em] dead. _
_ [G] _ I tell myself, will I be alright?
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_ [C] I shouldn't think [Dm] anymore tonight.
But _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ _ dreams last for [A] so long, _ _
[G] _ _ [D] even after [Em] you're gone. _ _ _
[C] _ And I know [Dm] that you love [A] me [G]
and soon I know you [E] will see
_ [Em] _ you [C] were meant for me _ _ [D]
and I was meant for [Em]
you. _ _ _ _ _
you _ _ [C] were meant for me _ [D] and I was meant [G] for _ you.
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