As If I Could chords by Leo Ted

Chords with lyrics

Here's a new song that Ted Leo performs. It's awesome. I love it. I think the lyrics
are 98% right. Just not sure what he says in the second line, (dubious?) and few other
lines might be iffy. Other than that, I think it's fairly accurate. Not sure what he
does between the verses though. Maybe some variation of the D MajorD chord. The notes that he
picks are e, d c#, b.

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D MajorD       A augmentedA               B minorBm
I spent the morning with my vitamins and many black teas

G+G           F# minorF#m         E minorEm      picking part
E,D, C#, BB
combatting the dubious induced haze

A augmentedA      E minorEm         F# minorF#m        E minorEm
barely awake, already shaken by the misty newsfeed

B minorBm
I ain't slept very well for days

G+G       A augmentedA               D MajorD             B minorBm
for all the schadenfreude of mocking stupid politicians

G+G            F# minorF#m          E minorEm
I should try to bring a better spirit to my day

A augmentedA       E minorEm          B minorBm
although I can't believe our souls are at their basest, good

G+G       A augmentedA          B minorBm     E minorEm
i'd like to live as if I could (oh yea)

G+G       A augmentedA      D MajorD
i'd like to live as if I could


D MajorD         A augmentedA               B minorBm
You try to offer something without asking much return

G+G           F# minorF#m        E minorEm    Picking part
At best even less than it is worth

A augmentedA         E minorEm       F# minorF#m          E minorEm
And watch it taken every day from every petty picker

B minorBm
More than you can accumulate from birth

G+G             A augmentedA               D MajorD             B minorBm
No, you might never know how the work you've done affects your living

G+G      F# minorF#m               E minorEm
Trust in animus might just get you through the day

A augmentedA          E minorEm             B minorBm
And though I don't believe it's lucky when you knock on wood

G+G    A augmentedA          B minorBm     E minorEm
I'd to live as if I could (oh yea)

G+G    A augmentedA       D MajorD
I'd to live as if i could.


Breakdown: D, A, Bm, G, Fm, Em,
Pick, A, Em, Fm, Em, Bm, G,
Fm, Em…

A augmentedA         E minorEm           B minorBm
And though I don't believe in God, and don't think that I should

G+G       A augmentedA       B minorBm      E minorEm
i'd like to live as if I could (oh yea)

G+G       A augmentedA       D MajorD