Chords with lyrics
Performance @ The Vermont Hollywood Intro: C F C F Verse 1: F F* C They paint the walls with colors that you're not meant to notice. G Beiges and browns, off-whites and grayscales F C Fluorescent lights to shine on the eggshell ground. G Now you're lying face down F You blend into the background C F Of white noise.
Verse 2: F F* C They fill the halls with tunes you can't get into your head. G 4/4 and Dorian, wrote 'em for ignoring 'em, yeah F C It sorta sounds like a retro top 40 but wrong. G You're not meant to sing along F It isn't that kind of song C F It's white noise. Pre-Chorus: Dm G7 Dm But if you listen closely I swear G7 To God I swear. Dm You can hear the ocean if you G7* Hold it up to your ear, here
Chorus: C F White noise C (Listen close between the waves.) F White noise C (You can hear the ocean through your wake.) F White noise C (Listen close between the waves.) F F* N.C. White noise Instrumental: C F C F C F C Breakdown: C How many times has this happened to you? F C You go to take out the laundry, and you drop it, and it falls into a black hole. F How many times has this happened to you? C F You're straining your pasta, and your eyeballs fall out into it? C How many times has this happened to you? F C There's a cat, and it won't tell you its name. F C You don't recognize the cat, it's not your cat. You don't have a cat. F But it's here, and it won't tell you C what you need to know, to properly assess the situation. F C 'Cause the cat is much larger than any cat you've seen before. F It's a bear. C How many times has this happened to you? F C F You die. And then are reborn again, into that mind of a grasshopper C F Where you die once more, and are reborn again, into the mind of your mom. C F How many times has this happened to you? You give up. C Bridge: N.C. Check one, two. Check check one, two. C It's high-fidelity, lossless quality. F It's MP, one, two, three, four, five F-L-A-C. C It's polyphonic, the new Philharmonic F With a Juilliard doctorate, live from the Metropolitan. C It's theoretically dense, it's impressive. F It's microtonal, and it challenges Western C notions of art, it's post-avant-garde. F It's going places 'cause it comes from the heart. C And it's personality's a lack of identity F It makes no statement, but does so quite loudly. C It's an aesthetic I mean, an anesthetic. F And it's an experience for your seventh sense, yes. C N.C. Does it cure cancer? (Yes, it cures cancer!) F Wow! It begs the question just to tell you the answer. C Do you believe in the power of silence? F Well, if you walk the walk, can you talk more- N.C. (Shh!) Quiet. Chorus: C F White noise C Listen close between the waves. F C White noise F White noise C Listen close between the waves. F N.C. C F White noise Verse 3: F F* C You fill your head with thoughts you find you can't even feel. G Try to make room in your skull, but it's full of them. F C All of the things that you think and then think about thinking. G I know it's hard. F But they're not who you are C They're white noise. 🏷Legend: * = single strum
