Chords for Will Wood - Memento Mori

capacity to stay on topic as Donald Trump does.
And so I apologize for that.
And I was going to say something _ about what I do
as I was doing it, and now I've even forgotten what that was.
The thing that led me to explaining that I have as little attention span as Donald Trump
has now eluded me.
Yay, ADD!
Oh, here we go.
So I spent like two years of my life lying to people about how I feel.
_ I don't know if that is_
I don't know if I [Gb] just broke canon for anybody in the audience.
[D] _ _
But I spent a long time [C] doing a lot of character work.
It was like a big part of what I wanted to do.
And then I did that movie, The Real Will Wood, and now that that's over with,
I'm done with the work thing.
I mean, no promises that I won't lie to you again, but_
But the character work was a big part of it.
And I was doing this thing for a very long time, and some of you folks may have seen the show,
where I would come [Dm] out, you know_
_ _ _ [C] And like screaming and hollering and doing the whole random-ass thing.
[Gb] _ _ _ And then over the course of the show, I would [E] tell my jokes,
[F] I had little one-liners, _ and then at the end of the show,
or about halfway, three-quarters of the way through,
I'd be like, I'm sick of doing this fucking wackadoo shit.
Can I just be me?
And people would be like, [Gb] no! _ _
[Ab] _ One time an audience did say no,
it was like, suffer for me, [C] clown!
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
But doctor, _ I am Pagliacci. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ But I would do that thing, and I'd be like,
[N] I need to just be myself now and play for you these songs that are really for me.
And then I'd play piano ballads and newer stuff, which is essentially what I do. _
_ And people would come up after the show, and sometimes people would cry.
And they'd be like, I really appreciate you, you know,
baring your soul there.
And I was like, fuck.
_ That was fake, too. _ _ _
And then _ somebody told me I was manipulative.
I made this new friend, and she was like,
yeah, no, I think it's really cool that you're able to be so manipulative.
And I was like, uh-oh. _ _ _
What?
_ And it hurt.
And I made sure she knew [D] that.
_ _ _ _ [N] You see what you do to me?
But the point being, I realized that for so long,
I had these layers and layers.
I'd come on stage as a character, and then I'd break character,
to just be a different character.
And even right now, I don't know how real I'm being.
I really don't know.
But I think pretty real.
_ Obviously, I wouldn't be talking like this and doing this stuff.
We were just hanging out in the room.
_ I mean, sometimes. _ _ _
_ This is how I would close every show.
At the end of _ the emotional journey that I pretended to go on,
I would come and I'd be like, listen, this is the last song I want to_
I feel like it really sums up everything that I want to say.
_ And here I am, _ _ going,
_ here's the last song that really sums up everything. _
_ _ _ _ It's_
And I'm being honest when I say it.
_ _ So I don't know what the fuck that is. _ _
Because [F] this is everything I want to say.
Art's weird, I guess.
Now, this is the avant-garde.
_ _ And I'm trying to put a [C] punchline at the end of this,
and nothing's coming.
And I think that that's just fitting.
Because punchlines do not happen in conversations. _ _
To get to the other side.
[F] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [A] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] _ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ [Cm] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ One day you'll look up at [A] the ceiling above
[Dm] You're three o'clock, you're nine o'clock
You're not [G] the ones that you love
The lights [C] in your eyes fade [Dm] and life flashes by
[Bb]
One day you're going to [F] die
_ One day you'll sleep and [A] you'll never wake again
[Dm] Heaven, hell, and all of [G] nothing, no one knows how it ends
Rest [Gm] in peace or [C] pieces and we'll even [D] or [Bb] why
[C] One day you're going to [F] die
_ Read your horoscopes, your palms and tarot cards
[Bb] Either way, [Gm] our destination ain't very [Bbm] far
You [G] could drown or choke or burn or be [F] hit by a car
What [G] doesn't kill you makes you stronger
[E] But something will eventually
[F] One day you'll look back [A] at the life that you led
No [Dm] more future left to fear that you'll [G] have the past to regret
But your worries will be over when you truly [D] [Bb] realize
[C] One day you're going to die
Take it away, [F] hands
In [A] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [E] _ [Eb] the fabric [F] of time and in the vastness of space
A [Abm] billion amounts to nothing in infinite space
At most a [F] couple generations [Ebm] will remember the ways
In [G] which your life never mattered, so [D] who cares if it's a waste?
Well, one day you'll meet not even [B] a faint memory
No, and most of course, you'll [A] probably leave from your family dream
Your history's not [G] yours to see nor is your eulogy
[C] And you'll never know [G] what this shit all means
But you'll be at [D] least before you sleep
If you just [E] keep this in [C] mind
That everything [Bm] and everyone goes with the passage of [C] time
So whether it's cancer, [D]
murder, [Gbm] or [E] suicide _ _ _
_ _ One day you're [G] going to die, try not to [C] think about it
One day you're going [G] to die, [E] but there ain't no life without [C] it
One day you're going to die, [E] there's probably nothing after
One day [D] you're going to die, so if you only have one chance
You ought to try your best [E] to live as you like
One day you're [G] going to die _ _