Chords for Steve Poltz - You Were Meant For Me (Part 3)

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Well, that's not all. _
_ It gets better. _
_ _ So, _ [G]
about a week later, my phone starts ringing
again about the same time.
I go, what [D] the hell is going on?
[C] The messages go, _ dude, [Em] you
gotta watch it. _ _
Now, I'd [C] never seen [D] American Idol, right?
And [G] American Idol is on the Fox
television network.
[C] And it was the season premiere and it was going to have [Em] 22 million
viewers.
[G] So, if your song's on for more than 17 seconds and you have a certain amount of
viewers, you even [D] make more money.
[C] So, I'm going, well, what's going on?
Why do they
want me to [Em] watch it?
Well, Jules, the guest host on American Idol.
And they have [C] a girl
come out [D] from the Minneapolis, Minnesota, [Bm] who works at the Mall of America.
And she
wants to [C] be an American Idol.
And she's a [Em] makeup artist at the Mall of America.
Now,
I [G] don't hate the show American Idol.
I got nothing against American Idol.
A lot of musicians,
they [C] don't like American Idol because people become [E] stars overnight and they think they
[Em] didn't earn it.
[G] Well, I don't have any problem with it because I'm not a hater.
I'm a live
and let live kind of guy.
If you like [C] American Idol, more power to you.
Watch it, [Em] right?
I don't care.
The only thing I really [G] hate are shopping malls because I [Bm] don't like the
fluorescent lights and they give me anxiety attacks.
[C] The other thing I don't like is when
people send me [Em] emails and they put LOL in it.
I know you're freaking trying to be funny.
You don't [G] have to tell me.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ So, I just don't hate a [C] lot of things, right?
_ _ _ [Em] So, _ _ _ [D] anyways,
the girl comes on and she auditions.
And the song [Bm] she picks is, You Were Meant For Me.
[C] So, after she finishes, they go to Jules, what did [Em] you think?
And the girl didn't do
that good of a job, but [G] it wasn't that bad.
And Jules going, _ _ _ they go, Jules, what did
you think?
She says, I don't want to say anything.
So, I'm thinking, oh my God, Jules, come on.
At least say something [C] nice to her.
And they go to this guy, Randy.
Randy, [Em] what did you
think of it?
And he goes, where did you get [G] those clothes?
They're awful.
And then, right,
it hits me.
Ding, ding, ding.
I understand [C] American Idol.
It's like modern day Roman
[Em] gladiators.
We throw someone to the lions and [G] we watch them get [D] devastated [G] in malls.
And it's [D] entertainment.
It's like [C] driving down the highway and seeing a car wreck.
You don't
want [E] to watch [Em] it, but you can't turn away.
[E] And I start going, man, this is [G] a really mean
television [Bm] show.
[C] Maybe this last judge is really nice.
His [Em] name's Simon, right?
So,
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ they go, Simon, what did you think?
And he goes, that was bloody awful.
Don't let the door hit you
on your way out.
_ [G] And I go, oh my God.
And the girl starts crying.
And [D] she runs into [C] her mother's
arms.
And tears are running down [Em] her face.
And her mom's hugging her.
And I'm going,
[G] I felt really awful [Bm] that I even wrote that song.
And I was thinking, God, I [C] wish I could go back
in time to the Mexican drug [Em] bust.
If I could travel in [D] time like Billy Pilgrim in the book
[G] Slaughterhouse-Fly by Kurt Vonnegut, I would go [C] back in time and I never would have written this
song.
[E] And then I realized it was on for 37 seconds.
And I said, screw her and her [Em] feelings. _
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[C] I [D] brush my teeth, I put [G] the cap back [Bm] on. _
[C] _ I know you hate it when I leave the [Em] light on. _ _ _
[G] I pick a book up and I turn the sheets [Bm] down.
Yeah.
[C] _ I take a drink and [D] I get a look around. _ _
_ _ [C] _ [G] Put on my PJs and I hop into bed. _
[Bm] _ _ [C] _ I'm half alive, but I feel [Em] mostly dead.
_ _ [G] _ I tell [Bm] myself it'll all be all right.
_ _ [C] I shouldn't think [D] anymore tonight.
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Because dreams [D] last so long, [A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ even after [Em] you're gone. _ _ _
_ [C] _ And I know _ [D] that you love me.
_ _ [G] And soon [D]
I know you'll [Em] see _ you [C] were meant for me.
_ _ _ [D] And I was meant for [Em] you.
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_ [A] _ _ _ [C] You were meant for me.
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And I was meant for _ _ you. _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [C] Yeah. _
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