Chords for WIL WAGNER (THE SMITH STREET BAND) - BIRTHDAYS (BalconyTV)

_ _ Hi, [E] _ _ welcome to Balcony TV presented by The Push and Sin 1700.
Before I begin I'd just like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Wurundjeri
people and pay my respects to their elders past and present.
So my name's Tim and I'm joined by Will Wagner from the Smith Street Band.
How you doing Will?
Good mate, how are you?
Yeah good, so no worries.
What song are you going to be performing for us today?
I'm going to play a slow version of the new Smith Street Band song, Birthdays.
Birthdays, good song.
Alright, take it away mate.
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_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ I'm a boy from [Ab] the Bourke Street [Cm] Pier.
[Bb] Wanna be [Eb] [Ab] alone, wanna be surrounded.
Wanna be transient, wanna [Cm] be [Bb] grounded.
But all the [Ab] _
dissonance [Eb] disappears from me.
Drape an arm across my knee [Cm] intentionally, [Bb] lazily [Eb] and.
I'll [F] be the one _ _ [Eb] looking _ _ _ [Fm] confused.
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I'll be the one _ _ looking [Cm] for you.
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We [Eb] are more than future _ housewives.
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More [Cm] than the star [Bb] of our [Ab] past lives.
Two lovers in [Eb] basically matching shirts.
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[Cm] Jaywalk together [Gm] across petrified [Ab] earth.
And if there's more to life, [Eb] let me forget.
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All about [Bb] it tonight.
[Eb] All I [Ab] want occupied in my mind [Eb] is what is the [Ab] highest thing [Cm] we can climb [Bb] before _ [Eb] sunrise. _
Be the one _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] comfortable shoes.
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I'll be the one.
_ _ [Abm] It's probably too drunk, but still offers to carry you.
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_ Be the one.
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_ _ _ [F] _ And we'll laugh at it for being so obvious.
But in our hearts, we'll take it so serious to the outside world.
Stay [Ab] oblivious.
But to all of our friends, our actions will be hideous.
And I'll be [Eb] intense.
And I'll be too much.
And I'll get [Ab] too high.
And I'll get too drunk.
[Eb] But in between _ _ episodes, I will [Ab] love you more than anyone you have ever [B] known.
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Not a mean to put the pressure on.
You gotta like [Cm] my dad and [Bb] all your loved [Eb] _ mama.
Not a mean to put the pressure on.
Gotta be named [Cm] for a daughter.
I [Bb] can't think of one for [Eb] a son.
Not a mean to put the pressure on. _
Not [Cm] a mean to put the [Bb] pressure [Eb] on.
I'd do anything here to see this through.
Anyway, hey, my name's Will.
It's nice to meet you. _ _ _ _
[C] Thank you.
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Oh, Will, what an incredible song.
Thanks, man.
Thank you very much.
No worries at all.
So let's talk about your recent solo tour, right?
So how do you fit that into your busy schedule?
Like going solo as well, you know?
Badly, to be honest.
_ I announced the tour like with the tour started the day our album got announced
and then finished the day like our tour got announced.
So we're sort of in the middle of lots of emails and stuff.
But yeah, I love playing solo.
It's very, very fun.
I get to play loose of shows and sort of different venues.
Like we did three shows at the Spiegel tent in Melbourne, an old circus tent.
Yeah, that's cool.
So yeah, it's really fun to get to do something a bit less stressful.
It's a bit different.
Just go your own way for a bit.
That's really cool.
So your forthcoming album is going to be out next month.
So it's been over two years since your last album.
So has there been a lot of hard work put into this [Cm] one?
And how is it different than [Db] the other albums?
[Ab] Yeah, it's about two [D] years between this album.
The new album is called More Scared of You Than You Are of Me.
It's [Abm] got April 7th, Pull House Records.
I'm very good at doing that now because I run the record label.
_ But yeah, it's similar vein to the rest of our stuff.
It's all about being a sad, weird guy.
_ But this album, I sort of tried to have more of a concept with it than I've had before.
Like I'm always trying to tell stories and that kind of stuff.
But with this record, it's like a narrative that runs through the whole thing.
So it charts a relationship I had that was [A] good for [G] material, if not for anything else.
And it sort of follows this relationship as it starts and gets [Eb] progressively worse.
And then the last song is about the start of a new relationship, I guess.
So yeah, it's been really fun.
And we had a great time recording it and I can't wait to release it.
That's really cool.
You are such a beautiful storyteller, I have to say.
No worries.
And yes, your new record label, Pull House Records.
Tell me about that and the sort of split from remote control as well.
Yeah, so we were on Poison City Records for a long time, which is we're still very close.
Poison City, sorry.
So remote control have been helping us to Pull House.
Pull House is, we're [E] very independent.
We do all our own stuff ourselves [G] and we'd always kind of spoken about [N] one day we'll start a label.
And the timing was just right for this album, I guess.
So yeah, we've only got us on the roster at the moment.
We've started signing other bands and stuff that will be announced soon.
Yeah, it's really _ like I love Poison City and I love that sort of the community that
like independent labels especially can like create around themselves.
And that's hugely influential on what we want to do with Pull House.
I'd love for us over the next 10 years to get a full roster of bands and everyone's
friends and tours together and works together.
And we all just kind of help, you know, sit back and help people.
And yeah, it's a really special and fun thing that we're doing.
I'm really excited about it.
Well, that's incredible.
Yeah, good luck with it all.
So another thing, so I think it's just today you have announced a lot of new shows around
Australia and I heard they're in really old theatres around the country.
Can you tell us about that?
Yeah, we're trying to be fancy boys basically.
_ We're out of the dingy pubs and clubs.
Yeah, well, we sort of played a lot of different venues around Australia now and
we're basically playing like dream venues.
So in Melbourne, we're doing the Forum.
In Sydney, it's at the Enmore and like a bunch of places like that
are like really beautiful, ornate venues.
And we're going to have a full like light show and all these things that we've never
had before, you know.
So yeah, we're really just trying to, you know, up the spectacle of seeing us kind of thing.
And also we played a lot.
So if people wanted to see us, they've probably seen us a lot of times.
So we're going to try and keep it interesting somehow.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that sounds incredible and I can't wait to see it guys.
So thank you once again for joining us and thanks for watching Balcony TV Melbourne.
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