Chords for Jason Falkner - Driving to The Roxy

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_ [N] _ _ So you're pretty excited about the show?
I'm excited, but I'm actually more concerned with stress.
Does that happen to you before shows in general?
Yeah.
Does _ it go away right before you start?
_ [C#]
No, it goes [F#m] away in the middle of the second song.
Every time?
Every time it's the second song.
It depends on the reaction of the first song.
Oh!
That's how I know.
That's the gauge for the whole show.
_ [C] I do know that if a crowd is not_
[N] If _ something's not working,
_ _ _ and the connection isn't happening,
then I'm really bad at _ getting them back on my side.
Oh, really?
Once they're chatty [Cm] or whatever,
_ that's kind of the worst thing that can happen.
I guess the worst thing [B] that can happen is a mass [C#] exodus. _
[C] But you [B] can kind of tell if the [G#] whole audience is just talking [Gm] about their [F#] lawn. Their drinks. _ _
Whatever they're_
That babe over there.
Or that most recent TV show they watched.
Right.
_ Yeah.
That hasn't happened in a while.
I [C#] _ guess I've been doing this long [D] enough
and _ _ sticking to my _ [N] _ musical _ _ guns long enough
so that the people that [G] usually do come are [G#]
really_
And also I don't play that [E] often.
[Dm] What I do is usually a pen drop [F] between songs.
[E] It's really nice.
_ [D#] _
Sometimes_
I've [C#] had shows where [A] _ I played solo,
like [F] solo electric guitar and singing,
and [Gm] then _ [F#m] _ _ breaking a crucial string,
like the A string in the first song.
Oh, no.
And literally having to put another string on the [C#] guitar
because I don't have a guitar [N] tech.
Oh, no.
Having to put another string on stage.
Like, sorry guys, [Gm] just really, you can talk [E] now.
Do whatever you have to do,
but this is going to [G#] take a little while.
[A] _ _ And that's_
[G#]
And they didn't turn on me then, [F#m] so that was [F#] _ good.
[E]
But I love playing.
I mean, I love performing.
_ [B] _ _
_ [F] Something like _ shifted_ _
[F#] I guess it's been about_
_ [F] _ _
_ It's kind of [F#] like since 2000,
since the [F] turn of this century.
Oh, no. _ _ _
_ All of a [N] sudden I got really excited about playing.
_ [A] And when I was playing, you know,
when I was on stage and even right before the show,
I was just like, yes, [D#] this_
You [Gm] know, [E] I couldn't play enough.
I [D#] couldn't play long enough,
or I'd be doing a show
and be nearing the end of the set list,
[G#] and I'd be like, I hope there's a show tomorrow,
or I want to play somewhere else tonight.
Let's go [F] somewhere where there's like a_
You know, I just wanted to perform.
I really liked it.
[F#] _ But_
[F] And finally got really comfortable with it,
because for maybe the _ [E] first_
Like all the 90s, all the bands I was in,
and even my solo stuff [D]
throughout the [C#m] 90s,
_ [B] I [A#] would be like _
[G#] on the side of the stage,
you know, [B] looking at people
and knowing that I have to go up there and play.
_ _ Just be like, why did I choose [Gm] this life?
Like, why [D#] can't I just be like [D] an electrician or something?
You know, something [G] where [A] I don't have to perform.
Right.
Because I love creating music,
but I didn't [D#m] really_
I just had, you know, I was [E] just really nervous.
[D#] Yeah.
_ I put a lot of pressure on myself.
Mm-hmm.
_ _ Like, I put a [D] tremendous amount of pressure on myself
all the time [C#] _ [N] to do something, _ you know,
to meet all my criteria.
Something that's _ [Gm] stretching the envelope,
as [F#] far as I'm concerned.
Something that [F] is rocking as well.
Like, I like to be like moved [D] by volume.
[C#] Mm-hmm. _
And then I also want to be honest emotionally,
and I want to be_
I want to [C] expose the, _ you know,
all the facets of my personality.
I think everybody is very multi-faceted,
and I [Fm] don't want to just like_
I love the [F] Ramones, and I love R [Fm].E.M.,
and bands that do kind of one thing.
Yeah.
Over and over again.
_ I love that stuff, but I just_
That's not how I make music.
That's not how I hear music.
I'll have like a Cole [D#] Porter [F#]-esque_ Mm-hmm.
You know, [Gm] sort of [F#] ballad of yesteryear,
[E] and then I'll have something that's like_
[F#] That [G] sounds like some German, _ [E] you know, new wave.
Right.
Just what you're into at the time, kind of?
Yeah, and it's just_
Well, [G#] I guess it's because I'm into [D] all of it at always.
Right.
[E] So it's like_ _
It's not like a symptom of,
[C#] oh, I've been listening to krautrock,
and so now I'm going to write [G#] something like Neue.
Oh.
Or, you know, [C] it's_
Or like, [F] I really like Led Zeppelin,
so here's my Led [C#] Zeppelin song.
It's not like [E] that.
To me, that's like_
To me, that's like Lenny Kravitz's disease.
[D#] Oh.
Which [C#] is a disease, by the way.
Sorry, Lenny.
_ _ [B] Just to change your music like every other song?
[G] Right.
Yeah, [F] I don't really_
I don't feel like I'm doing that at all.
What it is is I'm just trying to _ _
[F#] _ show more than one layer,
more than one emotion or, you know,
[N] facet of my human condition_ Right.
_at
a [A#] time.
Right.
I mean, all at the same time, you know?
[C#m] Yeah.
[A#] So it's kind [C#m] of _ [N] exhausting.
Yeah. I'm exhausted.
Yeah.
[F#] So how do you [F] recuperate?
Or do you just keep going? I don't.
I'm tired.
I'm really tired.
_ I'm always tired.