I Want To Be Well

Sufjan Stevens

key:

G9: 320201
Am/B*: x20210


[Verse 1]
G                     Bm       F
To think that I would die this time
         C/G                       G
Isolated in the room where the bed rises
             D                   A
Photographic ordinary people are everywhere
F#m                      Dm                  Bm
Extraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories

[Counterverse 1]
F         G      Dm        C
I’ll find sleep, I’ll find peace
Bm    Dm         Abm        F6
Or in death I'll sleep with ease

[Verse 2]
G                 Bm     F
To figure that it was my fault
                   C/G             G
Or so I’ve come to realize life is not about
                   D                   A
Love with someone, ordinary people are everywhere
F#m                       Dm                   Bm
Extraordinary people are, ordinary people are, ordinary people are

[Counterverse 2]
F          G         Dm         C
Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn 
Bm         Dm        Abm         F6
Illness is watching, waiting its turn

[Bridge 1]
C                  E
    Did I go at it wrong?
           F           Dbm   Abm
Or did I go intentionally to destroy me?
Am                    Dbm                     G            Dbm  Abm
     I’m suffering in noise I’m suffering in (touching ordinary body)
Am                        E                         F        Dbm   Abm
     The burning from within the burning from with (ordinary hysteria)
Am                     Dbm                     G               Abm     E7
     I could not be at rest, I could not be at peace (extraordinary hysteria)

[Verse 3]
Am                    D                      F              C
     So do yourself a good, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
Am                    D                       F              C    Am/C
     Or do yourself a favor, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes

[Bridge 2]
Fmaj7   Am        Dm                    G
Illness likes, to prey upon the lonely, prey upon the lonely
Fmaj7   Am        Dm                     G
When it dies, oh, I would rather be, but I would rather be fine

[Interlude]
F   G    Dm    C
ooooooooooooooooooooh
Bm   Dm   Abm    F6
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[Chorus 1]
  F
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
  C
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
  Dm
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
  C/G
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
  Am/E
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
  G9
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well

[Verse 4]
F                                               Am/C
    And I forgive you even  as you choke me that way
                    Am/B*                    Dm/A
With the pill or demon  and the shrouded shalom
                Dm/A                     C/G
Under conversation  in tremendous weight of
                      C/F
A crowd of ages outside  dressed for murder 
        Am/E
I’m not fucking around
                          G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not

[Chorus 2]
        F
I’m not fucking around
                          Am/C
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Am/B*                 Dm/A
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                          C/G
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    C/F                   Am/E
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                          G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not

[Verse 5]
F                                                 Am/C
    And shall I kiss you even as you take me that way?
                    Am/B*               Dm/A
With the pill or demon as my body changes
                    Dm/A                        C/G
Apparitions gone awry they surround me, all sides
                       C/F
But from within I see an unholy change
        Am/E
I'm not fucking around
                          G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not

[Chorus 3]
        F
I’m not fucking around
                          Am/C
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Am/B*                 Dm/A
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                          C/G
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    C/F                   Am/E
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                          G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
    Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not