Sad Chords by Bo Burnham

_ _ Um, this first song is called A World on Fire.
_ _ _ .
_ _ _ This next song is a little bit, a little bit longer than that one.
_ And, um, thank you.
_ _ .
It's about how sad I am, and I'm really sad, and [C] it's called Sad.
_ [F] _ _ .
_ [C] _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] It's about [F] all the sad stuff.
[C] Just picture a depressed onion cutting itself.
_ [F] _ .
_ _ [C] _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ .
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ .
_ _ _ I met [C] a homeless man [F] named Rich.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ .
[G] Isn't that terrible?.
[C] I saw a flyer [F] for a lost dog,.
and the dog didn't have any [E] legs.
[C] I saw a [F] diabetic kid _ .
[Am] [G] trick-or-treating.
[C] I saw a [F] giraffe who had a short [Am] neck.
That was [G] sad.
Or a [E] deer.
I saw [F] an old man [C] get hit by [G] a train.
He [E] didn't see it in the pouring [F] rain.
He [C] didn't hear me shout,.
Look out for the [G] train!.
_ _ [E] _ .
_ [C] Because I didn't say anything.
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ .
[Em] _ _ _ [C] [F] I just thought to myself,.
[C] _ .
Ooh, this is gonna be sad.
_ _ [F] _ _ [C].
And it was.
[Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] I'm a [C] genius.
_ I [Em] _ _ _ _ _ .
[C] saw a man with only [F] one eye.
_ .
_ _ _ _ [C] In a [G] 3D movie.
I [C] saw a little boy drop [F] his ice cream cone.
[Am] directly on his [E] mother's corpse.
[C] I saw a kid [F] stuck in a tree,.
[Am] then the kid jumped [G] off and he hung himself.
[C] I saw a boy who had [F] red hair.
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [E].
I went to [F] a store looking [C] for something [G] to buy.
But they only [E] sold paintings of the same [F].
sad guy.
[C] No, wait!.
This store [G] sells mirrors.
See [E] what I did there?.
[C] Let's rock!.
No.
[Em] _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ [Fm] _ _ _ [C].
[Em] The world's so sad, bros.
[F] _ [Fm] _ _ _ [C].
[Em] Pain.
Genocide.
[F] War.
[Fm] Sexism.
Racism.
[C] _ .
[Em] But I gotta remember [F] there's good things [Fm] about it too.
_ _ [C].
Like the [Em] fact that none of that's happening to [F] me.
[Fm] Score!.
_ _ [C] _ .
_ [Em] Still though, it's hard [F] not to be [Fm] sad about it.
_ _ [C].
[Em] How do y'all do it?.
_ [F] I've been [Fm] telling you guys terribly sad [C] things this whole song.
You haven't been [Em] sad at all.
You've been_.
[F] [Fm] You've been happy.
No.
_ [C].
[Em] You've been laughing.
That's it.
[F] Laughter, it's the [Fm] key to everything.
It's the way to solve [C] all the sadness [Em] in the world.
_ [F] I mean, not for [Fm] the people that are actually sad,.
but the people like us [C] that gotta fucking [Em] deal with them all the time.
[F] _ _ [Fm] _ Being a [C] comedian isn't [Em] being an insensitive prick.
[F] capitalizing on the most [Fm] animalistic impulses of the [C] public.
It's being [Em] a hero.
[F] _ The world isn't [G] sad.
The world's funny.
I'm a sociopath.
[C] I saw an old man [F] slip and fall.
[A] Hey, what a [G] fucking [C] idiot.
I saw a woman at her [F] daughter's funeral.
[Am] Ha ha [G] ha.
Classic [C] comedy.
Everything that once [F] was sad.
[Am] is somehow [G] funny now.
[C] The [F] Holocaust and 9-11.
[Am] That shit's [G] funny 24 [E]-7.
cause tragedy will [F] be exclusively [C] _ [G] joked about.
because [E] my empathy is bumming [F] me out.
[C] _ .
_ Goodbye [G] _ sadness.
_ [E] _ .
_ [C] Hello jokes.
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ .