Chords for Meet Miriam Bryant

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_ Shall I introduce myself?
I'm Miriam Bryans.
I'm born in Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden.
_ I'm half British, half Finnish, and I'm a singer-songwriter.
_ [D] I feel like [G] people from Gothenburg are proud of me, [C] yeah.
I don't [G] want to brag.
[Em] I've seen like sometimes people call me the Queen of [D] Gothenburg.
[G] It's just surreal.
I don't really [C] feel like the Queen of [G] Gothenburg.
But [Em] it does feel like coming home, because I've been living in Stockholm [D] for five [G] years.
I always have the biggest [C] audiences when I come [D] home.
I [Em] just know that there's like a special sense of togetherness.
[E] Maybe it's the [G] shitty weather. _
_ _ [C] _ I've always dreamed [Em] about, you know, singing and being on [F#m] stage.
[G] That's always been my dream.
But we didn't really know [C] anyone that [E] was a real [Em] musician or artist when we grew up.
So I [F#] didn't really think that you [G] could actually do that.
I just [C] wrote a [D] lot of [Em] poems and did a lot of scrapbooking and [F#] drawing.
And I was always [G] creative.
And everyone needs [C] something.
[D] Everyone needs [Em] something or someone to kind of make you feel [F#] better about yourself [G] and your life.
And I guess music was that [C] thing for me.
[D] _ _ [Em] I never even thought about doing anything [F#m] else.
If [G] you have a plan B, then you're [C] not [G] stressed enough to [Em] _
get to your plan A.
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I've been [Cm] thinking about my life [G] a lot lately.
[Em] I'm 26 now, and I've been doing this for five [D] years.
[G] And I guess that, you know, having [C] done everything, [D] almost everything [Em] that I can do in Sweden,
I think I naturally want to [F#] do something [G] outside of Sweden.
Like, I [C] have family in [D] England.
My uncle lives in Brighton.
[Bm] I've always thought that [G] Brighton and Gothenburg are actually pretty [C] similar.
[D] Whenever you [Em] say Brighton to a British person, they go, oh!
[D] And if you say [G] Gothenburg to a Swedish person, they go, ah!
Maybe it's [D] kind of the same vibe, [Em] in a way.
Coming back to Gothenburg [D] is almost like [G] sleeping with the next boyfriend.
_ [C] _ [D] Someone that you'll always [Em] love.
But, you know, you already left them [Bm] for good [G] reason.
You just want to go [C] back sometimes.
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Lisabadi.
It's a theme park, [F#] and [G] we used to go there as kids.
_ They put up loads of live shows, and I [Em] went there several times every summer
to go [F#] see my [G] favorite bands or artists.
That was [Em] a dream that I had, to play on the main stage at Lisabadi.
And I've played [F#m] there now.
[E] I remember standing on the stage and almost [Em] seeing,
like, picturing myself in the audience as a 13-year-old.
[D] _ [Em] The most important thing in life, [C] and I've
learned that the hard way sometimes, [Em] is to love yourself.
I mean, the whole point of art is [G] to feel something.
To say [C] to someone that you have to love [Em] yourself,
that's too much to ask from a person.
You don't have [G] to love yourself, but I
think you have to be [C] aware of [Em] what you want,
and that has to be important for you to kind of [G] be
able to value [C] other people as well.
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