Chords for Rachel Kann - i Know This

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_ I know [Bb]
this.
_ This [E] I know.
_ _ All that I have, all [Bb] that is me resides inside my poetry and [E] every time I write a rhyme it
[Bb] might be the line that sets [E] mine free.
[Bb] _
_ And [E] also I [Bb] know that [E] I don't know shit.
And the [Bb] more I know, _ _ the more I realize it.
_ [Bb] I know that for all the pain I've cried there is the exact same [Ab] balance of joy on the other
side of that [E] coin.
_ [Bb] _
_ Joined [E] with the thinnest slip of [Bbm] membrane.
_ _ [Em] [Gb] Spin goes for crazy insane, truth and [Bb] lie, answer and why because [Em] I _ [Bb] _
know this.
[E] _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ [E] This universe [Bb] operates with a fine tug of war, [E] teeter totter, bringing [Bb] order and balance
like the tide does to water. _
Like I know that each wave rolls back to the sea, retreating from me into deep green eternity
and I know that I am free.
[Bbm] _ _ [Em] Well at [Gb] least in my mind if I want to [E] be. _
[Bbm] _ I know [E] that some [Gb] things sound good to me in theory but in point of [G] fact sucks ass in [Bbm] actual
[E] practice like [Bb]
communism _ [E] and pornography.
_ [Bbm] I [Em] know that it's [Gb] impossible to really know where anyone is coming from [B] so who are we
[Db] to judge them?
_ I know that some things are so dope they transcend their category and it's important to see [Bb] the
glory in the ordinary. _ _
_ [Bbm] _ [E] Like I know that [Bb] there's Nag Champa and then [E] there's all other incense.
[Bbm] _ [Em] I [Gb] can't see putting Earl Grey up against any [E] other tea. _
[Bb] _ Lash [E] Out?
[Bb] It's not even on the same plane as [Ab] other mascaras comparatively and I know [E] that there's R [Bb]
&B
and then [E] there's Otis Redding.
[Bb] I know that most things are much greater than the sum of their parts and that's the real
definition of art.
Like brownies are good and [Gm] Noah's Whipped Cream but you put them [Bbm] together and it's this
[E] whole fucking [Gb] chemical other thing like [Db] Lennon and McCarthy singing [Bbm] harmony like [Em] _ [Bb] masturbating
as compared to an [E] orgy. _ _
[Bbm] _ I [Em] know that [Gb] everything within this surface glimpse of reality [B] is infinitely simple and
[Bbm] perfectly complicated [Em] and [Gb] I know that being baited and over [E] it is way overrated and that
[Db] the colors of this world only see faded in direct relation to the darkness with which
your mind's eye is shaded [Bb] and you made it that way and you can choose to change your
vision's prismic range [E] today [Bb] _
and I know [E] that you gotta help a friend who's down [Bb] and I know
that no [E] matter where you end [Bb] up _ you're still from your home town _ and [E] I know you gotta [Bb] know
how to listen to the sound of your [E] own heartbeat in the dead quiet of [Bb] night sometimes [E] _ _ _
[Bb] and I
know that can be so frightening but I also know that the deepest darkness is always the
most enlightening and I know that fresh cold cantaloupe tastes like the perfect first kiss
[Bbm] and I know [E] that [Gb] Lao Tzu and Moses and Mohammed [Db] and Buddha and [Bbm] Jesus and all those dudes do
some [Em] deep [Gb] ass shit but I also [B] know that we all hold the world's [Bbm] eternal truths in [Em] our
[Gbm] heart's deepest pit.
[Bb] It's because I know that we are [E] made of the same stuff [Bbm] as the sun and [Em] moon and [Gb] far as
the star and all that we [E] are it manifests energy [Bb] and that [E] we already have [Bb] everything
we could ever need if we could [Em] just begin to see clearly [Bb] and I know that [Em] the world will
[Bb] continue to spin and I know [E] that the world will continue to spin and I know that one
day _
[Bb] _ you [E] will let me in [Bb] and we will [Em] begin to love in [Bb] a fashion I couldn't [E] fathom existed
[C] and we will laugh at [Db] the fact that we ever resisted this [C] blissful togetherness and the
success _ _ well it'll be off the charts cause we'll both be [Db] super freaky [Bbm] but we'll be [Gb] fucking
from the heart cause [Bb] our loving will be a something where the whole is much greater
than the sum of its parts cause we're artists [D] after all _ [Bb] so what else would [N] fate have us
make besides art and I know that outside of this [Bb] space time frame we are one in the same
we're a part not [G] a part [Bb] _
_ so I know I can wait patiently for it to start [E] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [B] _ and far out of the
crowd I may seem to [E] be and [Bb] maybe you see me as [B] wacky but maybe the fact be that I am
a poet [Em] and like all [Bb] true poets do I'm mainlining the spiral empirical truth [E] of the universe
[Bb] turning it out _ [B] _ and [E] into lyrical wholeness and [Bb] I know this and I know this _ _ this I know
this [Bb] I know
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