It Is What It Is chords by Vic Chesnutt

Chords with lyrics

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I am a monster

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Like Quasimodo

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Or Caliban the natural man

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Giving wild ripostes to my reflection

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One ugly morning

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In a rage

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Father threw an apple

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Into my carapace

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And like the invisible man

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Directing traffic

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I'd be ineffective

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No matter how enthusiastic

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Amid the masses' frenzy

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Participation

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In this massive

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Separation

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Appearance is everything

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Nothing is how it seems

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And civilized society

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Is calm civility

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I'm the phantom of the opera

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Singing beauty and at ease

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Or Henry Darger's

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Autobiography

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And that is curt clues to my essence

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Planned obsolescence

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Appearance is everything

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Nothing is how it seems

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In a market economy

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It's called marketing

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And not exactly clawing my way to glory

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Nor whimpering in the wind

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But once positively

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I'm teetering on the brink

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Of an all out breakthrough

Verse:

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But sometimes clear headed
Sometimes a doofus

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Sometimes very cordial
And sometimes aloof

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I am syrupy optimistic one moment
Then gravely pessimistic the next

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Irritable as a hornet sometimes
Then agreeable as it gets

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I'm not a pagan
I don't worship anything

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Not gods that don't exist
Nor the sun which is oblivious

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I love my ancestors but not ritually
I don't blame them or praise them

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For anything that they passed along to me

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I don't need stone altars to help me hedge my bet

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Against the looming blackness
It is what it is

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It is  what it is
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