I Love You For Psychological Reasons chords by They Might Be Giants

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
A D E A D E


Verse 1:
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Lately I've taken to vacantly making repetitive movements mistakenly seen as improvements
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Nearing perfection but wisely electing to shun my reflection preferring instead shoe inspection
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Cheese and chalk do not talk but their eyes synchronize with a secret rhythm
D          E             F#          Bm          D      E       A     D E
Which is a way one could say that I love you for psychological reasons

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Mumbling failure in jail my extremities flail and I wail though my arms and my legs to the chair are nailed
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Under the table, unwilling, unable, the torture's medieval the dream is a fable with feeble wings


Pre-Chorus:
D            E               F#             Bm                 D            E           A     Bm
Why does the mouse share the house with the louse? They won't say but they feel their feelings
D          E              F#           Bm           D      E       A
Doesn't subtract from the fact that I love you for psychological reasons


Chorus:
Bm      D        E
Reasons I can't really go into now
A       Bm         D        E
Reasons we should probably not get into right now

A D E A D E


Verse 2:
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I'm ashamed to admit I'm afraid of assuming the blame for my lame abnegation of braveness and fame
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Brain in a jar in a car in reverse I'm rehearsing the way I'll replay how to say how to be where you are


Pre-Chorus:
D          E    F#        Bm        D            E      A     Bm
Flammable undiagrammable sentiments pass between animal beings
D           E             F#           Bm           D      E       A
Hard to explain but it's plain that I love you for psychological reasons


Solo:
A D E A D E
A D E A D E


Pre-Chorus:
D            E               F#             Bm                 D            E           A     Bm
Why does the mouse share the house with the louse? They won't say but they feel their feelings
D          E              F#           Bm           D      E       A
Doesn't subtract from the fact that I love you for psychological reasons


Chorus:
Bm      D        E
Reasons I can't really go into now
A       Bm         D        E                     A
Reasons we should probably not get into right now