Chords for Kate Wetherhead - "Calm" from ORDINARY DAYS

[E] _ [C] No, I am on the sixth train heading [G] uptown [Ab] to my little [Gb] professor's office.
[G] Like my ears [F] off the campus [E] overhang.
Why?
[Db] I'm sandwiched in between this [Ab] guy who's literally [Gb] drooling,
[G] and some [F] European hipster [E] who I'll move [A] beyond.
[D] Smell!
_ Woody [Fm] Allen or Gershwin in [Gbm] the air? _
_ [Ebm] What's the matter, lad?
[E] Well, I'm not so impressed.
I hear like, fill up glass at best.
Action! _ _
_ _ [A] _ [C] Oh, _ no!
_ _ _ _ _ [E] But it's not [A] working, does it?
Clearly, I'm a magnet for [Ab] a special breed [Gm] of psycho.
Couldn't be weird [E] to value a little bit of time.
And [Em] my new book likes to [Ab] wander on its own across the city,
[G] taking credit [E] in my own thesis, which I need [A] to write like.
[D] Now, I don't remember [Db] the [Fm] Muppets getting [Gb] [Ab] high.
[E] We're late to [G] Manhattan!
[B] [E] But my own diagnosis is I'm craving for psychosis,
because I cannot find a place to [G] get_ _go! _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [A] It's really [F] hard to know.
I tried to take up [C] yoga, but it would be [A] surprising
if many people think the [G] odor [F] is in my _ insides. _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Gm] _
[E] In a breath, [A] I visualize that the lifeboat just left.
[D] She's [E] having my [Fm] _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [G] _
[Abm] junk [C] and don't wanna die.
She's _ gone!
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ Sorry, [Dbm] anyway, I get to my [Ab] professor's, and he sits me down
and tells me [G] all my thesis on Virginia.
[E] He feels awful.
_ [Db] I'm working [Ab] on it, not [C] so much as [E] thesis.
But the fact that she went crazy in that scene is, well, [A] apropos.
[D] _
My professor [Fm] just tosses back [Gbm] his head.
_ And [B] a dry mouth.
_ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ I'm wondering if people kill me quicker than Big Apple or the Lickers.
When suddenly I'm panicking and I tell myself I must get someplace [A] to_ _go!
_ _ I am [B] in a [F] mental [E] _ organization.
Lifeboat [A] is where [Bm] my head [Cm] was ready [A] to go.
And [B] I hop a train to [E] Jersey.
[A] Doesn't matter.
[Bm] Fast as [A] any person can go.
[G] And 90 [C] minutes out, I get off _ [A] [Bm] some provincial [Am] train that [Db] I've [A] never heard of. _
_ _ _ The real estate office right on the block.
I can't afford a two-bedroom.
I go into shop.
_ [N] _ _ _
I [D] think, what the heck? _
I write [B] a check. _ _ _ _
_ There's some nice [Bm] _ [D] closets and _ laundry. _ _ _ _
But [A] mostly, _ _ _ _
[F] _ it's _ _ [G] calm.
[F] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Abm] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Calm.
[C] _ _
[G] _ _ [N] _ _ _ Really calm.
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ Strangely calm. _
_ _ _ Times _ [A] _ [C]
Square at 5am.
_ _ [G] Like, totally freak me out.
[C] _ _ [F]
Like, I'm going to go crazy and throw myself off [G] the balcony.
[E] Calm. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I [A] tear up my deposit. _
_ And I [B] head back to Penn Station. _
[D] Of course, the subway's broken.
So I [E] walk more miles home. _
_ _ And [A] like 14 hours later, I get back to [Eb] my apartment.
_ With my [D] crazy spastic _ roommates.
[Em] In a room of [N] _ _ _
_ my own.
[A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ I've got this black and [Db] white [Eb] poster [Db] on my [Gbm] _ wall. _
_ _ [B] _ _ [Db] [Dm] And [Ebm] had him.
_ _ [E] I've given the [N] finger.
_ _ _ _ But [Gm] I let my gaze [Ab] linger.
_ _ [Ebm] _ _
[Abm] And I noticed [Gbm] how the [Gm] people with the tiny [Abm] specks of grey.
All [Gbm] _ [Bbm] haphazardly arranged.
Just [Ab] like they were in [A] that Monet.
[Abm] And suddenly, [B] I'm struck by this [E] bizarre [Em] _ revelation.
[E] That like Warren's [A] whacked-out inner [B]-roommate.
Deserves some _ exploration.
[N] _ _ _
I [Bm] sit on _ _ _ _ [D] my real-eyes [E] and I'm _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ fine.
Calm.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _