Recipe For Me chords by Thomas Sanders

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
DbDb  Eb MajorEb

Verse 1:
           AbAb
There are shouters and murmurers
      DbDb
Loan sharks and burglars
F minorFm            Eb MajorEb    DbDb
Who's good or bad, who's to say?
         AbAb
Some are lost, some are searchers
          DbDb
Some are givers, some are earners
F minorFm            Eb MajorEb      GbGb
But why did they all end up that way?

     F minorFm              Eb MajorEb
Is it nature at play or is it nurture?
       DbDb              AbAb
Is the teacher to blame or is the learner?
         F minorFm          Eb MajorEb       GbGb DbDb
I'm all at sea, I'm no authority on anything but me

  AbAb         DbDb        AbAb  DbDb
I couldn't tell you why I am who I've become
  AbAb                 DbDb
But I can tell you the parts that make me up
            F minorFm         Eb MajorEb
And you can calculate the sum
     AbAb           DbDb        GbGb    DbDb AbAb
I'll impart to you what I believe to be the recipe for me

AbAb  Bb majorBb  C minorCm  DbDb

Verse 2:
AbAb
Water
AbAb
First things first

You need a great deal of water to make me
DbDb
Sixty liters is roughly what you need
              F minorFm          Eb MajorEb
It accounts for sixty-five percent of my being
AbAb
And cells
                      GbGb
My body's composed of trillions and trillions of cells
                DbDb
Performing an assortment of missions
                           F minorFm Eb MajorEb
And it's important to mention that they house my DNA
                   AbAb
Which makes me myself

Chorus:
AbAb
There's an ebb and a flow
AbAb
I grow then I see changes
         GbGb
There are rewrites, losses, gains and rearrangements
   DbDb
It's all much more uncertain than I thought it would be
                F minorFm                   AbAb
Who knew there'd be so many ways to be me


Verse 3:
AbAb
Stories, audience or presenter
                 GbGb
Add scores of stories over a time
             DbDb
A augmentedA slew of silly videos I shared online
                 F minorFm         Eb MajorEb
And journals full of narratives I wrote at age nine

    AbAb                          GbGb
And still I continue to write because I have more dreams to fulfill
              DbDb
Tales I hoped to tell when I was younger
           F minorFm          Eb MajorEb
Ideas that I haven't made yet but I will
                AbAb
I'll find my way with my will

Bb majorBb AbAb DbDb

Chorus:
     AbAb
There's an ebb and a flow
AbAb
I grow then I make changes
         GbGb
There are rewrites, losses, gains and rearrangements
   DbDb
I'm so much more uncertain than I thought I would be
                F minorFm     Eb MajorEb
Who knew there'd be so many ways to be me


Bridge:
AbAb
Eggs
AbAb
You may laugh and that's great
     GbGb
Your smiles are what make my day
              AbAb
My self-worth's fragile like an egg
                 BbmBbm
When it breaks it's tough to put together again

    AbAb
And salt
AbAb
A augmentedA pinch of salt in my wounds
         GbGb
When my friends have had enough of me
             DbDb
It doesn't help that I'm lacking subtlety
           C minorCm           DbDb C majorC
When I drop hints that I crave their company

  F minorFm
Alone it's hard to console myself
       Eb MajorEb
When I feel so alone
       DbDb
I feel like I disappear
DbDb
If I don't shout "I'm here!"
 Eb MajorEb
If I don't make my presence known

            DbDb
And if people see me here
            Eb MajorEb
And find my face unclear
     F minorFm           Bb majorBb
Can I help them to see me better?
        DbDb          Eb MajorEb
I know I can't foresee the weather
           F minorFm       Bb majorBb
So will they accept me now or ever?
DbDb
Who knows
     DbmDbm
I hope so

              DbDb
But I'm good enough
          Eb MajorEb             F minorFm      Bb majorBb
Whatever I face I can rest assured that better days await
           DbDb             Eb MajorEb
The path to happiness isn't a race
         F minorFm                GbGb
I'll let my heart beat at its own pace


Bridge 2:
AbAb
Sunshine
AbAb
Happy and bright
  GbGb
It nurtures the earth with its light
           DbDb
Its beaming smile helps buds to flower
                F minorFm           Eb MajorEb
I'll take a dash of that for when friends feel sour

        AbAb
And rainbows

A augmentedA light shines through
          GbGb
And every hue is on display
               DbDb
Save a pinch of that for a rainy day
                   F minorFm  Eb MajorEb
And use it when the storm clouds go away


Chorus:
          AbAb
There's an ebb and a flow
AbAb
I grow so I make changes
         GbGb
There are rewrites, losses, gains and rearrangements
   DbDb
I'm so much more uncertain than I thought I would be
        F minorFm              Eb MajorEb
But I can see there's no wrong way to be me
      DbDb              Eb MajorEb  AbAb
Now I see there's no wrong way to be me


Outro:
     GbGb              F minorFm      DbDb AbAb
And I know putting this recipe to paper is unwise
GbGb      F minorFm           DbDb     AbAb
All of the ingredients are changing all the time
  GbGb            F minorFm      DbDb  AbAb
I know putting this recipe to paper is unwise
GbGb      F minorFm           DbDb      AbAb
All of the ingredients are changing all the time
GbGb             F minorFm   DbDb         AbAb
Changing all the time, they're changing all the time
GbGb                 F minorFm       AbAb
Changing all the time, I'm changing all the time

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