Recipe For Me Ukulele chords by Thomas Sanders

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Intro:
B C D


Verse 1:
          B
There are shouters, and murmurers
C
Loan sharks and burglars
    Em                D
Who's good or bad? Who's to say?
          B
Some are lost, some are searchers
           C                 Em
Some are givers, some are earners
      D
But why did they all end up that way?
         Em                      D
Is it nature at play, or is it nurture?
           C                           B
Is the teacher to blame, or is the learner?
Em
I'm all at sea
          D            F         C
I'm no authority on anything but me
             B            C               Em  D
I couldn't tell you why I am who I've become
            B                       C                          Em         D
But I can tell you the parts that make me up, and you can calculate the sum
  B                         C            F         C              B C Em D
I'll impart to you what I believe would be the recipe for me

Verse 2:
B
Water
                                        C                 Em
First things first, you'd need a great deal of water to make me
  Em
Sixty liters is roughly what you need
                     D
It accounts for sixty-five percent of my being
       B
And cells
                        F                           C
My body's composed of trillions and trillions of cells
                Em                                  D                            B
Performing an assortment of missions, and it's important to mention that they house my DNA
                  B
Which makes me myself


Chorus:
B
There's an ebb and a flow

I grow, then I see changes
              F
There are rewrites, losses, gains, and rearrangements
       C                                 Em
It's all much more uncertain than I thought it would be
                  D
Who knew there'd be so many ways to be me?


Verse:
B
Stories
                              F
Audience or presenter, add scores of stories over a time
              C
A slew of silly videos I shared online
                          D
And journals full of narratives I wrote at age nine
        B                                   F
And still, I continue to write because I have more dreams to fulfill
                   C
Tales I hoped to tell when I was younger
                       D
Ideas that I haven't made yet, but I will
                           B
I'll find my way with my will


Chorus:
B
There's an ebb and a flow

I grow, then I make changes
             F
There are rewrites, losses, gains, and rearrangements
     C
I'm so much more uncertain than I thought I would be
                  Em                    D
Who knew there'd be so many ways to be me?


Verse:
B
Eggs

You may laugh, and that's great
        F
Your smiles are what make my day
                   Em
My self-worth's fragile like an egg
                      F
When it breaks it's tough to put together again
     B
And salt
                                        F
A pinch of salt in my wounds when my friends have had enough of me
            Em                                         F
It doesn't help that I'm lacking subtlety when I drop hints that I crave their company
  Em                                      D
Alone it's hard to console myself when I feel so alone
                 C                     D
I feel like I disappear, if I don't shout "I'm here"
            D                 C
If I don't make my presence known
                 C
And if people see me here
              D
And find my face unclear
        Em                  A
Can I help them to see me better?
          C                  D
I know I can't foresee the weather
               Em                A
So will they accept me now or ever?
      C
Who knows?
        Cm
I hope so...
               C
But I'm good enough
             D                  Em                    A
Whatever I face, I can rest assured that better days await
                C              D
The path to happiness isn't a race
               Em                  F
I'll let my heart beat at its own pace
C
Sunshine
                        F
Happy and bright, it nurtures the earth with its light
              C                   Em
Its beaming smile helps buds to flower
              D
I'll take a dash of that for when friends feel sour
      C
And rainbows
                 F           C                 Em
A light shines through and every hue is on display
         Em
Save a pinch of that for a rainy day
                       D
And use it when the storm clouds go away


Chorus:
B
There's an ebb and a flow

I grow, then I make changes
             F
There are rewrites, losses, gains, and rearrangements
     C
I'm so much more uncertain than I thought I would be
                  Em                    D
Who knew there'd be so many ways to be me?


(Ending/Outro)
F                        Em         C         B
And I know putting this recipe to paper is unwise
F            Em              C              B
All of the ingredients are changing all the time
F                      Em     C           B
I know putting this recipe to paper is unwise
F               Em            C              B
All of the ingredients are changing all the time
F                  Em
Changing all the time
          C                B
They're changing all the time
F                  Em
Changing all the time
      C                B
I'm changing all the time