Okay To Do This
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Verse 1
Bm
Do you remember when
G
The sound designer said to me
D
I just want to be
A
High all the time
Am
And I said to them
F
I just want to be
C
Thinking how everything's perfectly wrong
G
While playing arpeggios ever so quietly
Verse 2
C
A couple boys with voices
Em
Somewhere in the landscape
E
The pushcart poet gave them their choices
F
Politics or romance
Am
Now everything is perfect
F
And everything is wrong
C
And everything's apparently written in stone
G
As they cry out like zombies with their opposite answers
Verse 3
C
Do you remember when
Em
We said "Maybe this is dead
E
This music we have made
F
This room that we have filled with beasts shouting at each other's faces"
Am
Oh, fuck another word, fuck another bluebird
F
Everything is perfectly wrong
C
Fuck another sacrificial song laid out
G
Like a snake getting eaten by our children in the sunset
Bridge
C Em
Desperate sadness for no reason will overcome sometimes
E
When everything is perfect and everything is wrong
Abm
And then everything is coming up sunshine
A
You'll be fine
F#m
You'll be fine
C
Alongside the love of an actual life
Fm G Fm
Along for the ride of an actual lifetime
Outro
Bm
So please take me dancing in Mexico City
G
Where desperate sadness for no reason overcomes me
D
And everything is perfect and perfectly wrong
A
And then desperate sadness for no reason moves along
Bm
It is good to move on, have many lives and
G
Shed your skin and sing
D
But I could use a spirit that just hangs out on my shoulder
A
Just to whisper in my ear that it's okay to just get older
Bm
Yeah it's okay to do this, yeah it's okay to do this
G
Yeah it's okay to do this, yeah it's okay to do this
D
Yeah it's okay to do this, yeah it's okay to do this
A
Yeah it's okay to do this this way
Am
Okay to do this, yeah it's okay to do this
F
Yeah it's okay to do this, yeah it's okay to do this
C
Yeah it's okay to do this, yeah it's okay to do this
G
Yeah it's okay to do this this way
Outro Instrumental
C Em E F
Am F C G
(repeat until fade out, around 2 times)
How to play Okay To Do This
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What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is Bm. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.