2012 Ukulele chords by Will Wood

• Difficulty: Advanced 🤯

Intro:

  Ab            Bb                          Ab
A|3-------------3---------------------------3---------------------------------|
E|4------1---1--2-------1---1-0------1-0----4-------1---1--------1---1---1----|
C|3-0-3----3----1-0-3-----3--------------1--3-0-3-----3------------3---3------|
G|5----0--------1-----0----------1-0--------5-----0--------0-0-0--------------|

C Gm C Gm C Gm C Gm C Gm7 C


Verse 1:
C                                 Gm
I was an existential criminal, so innocently cynical
C                    Gm
Ignorant as fuck but a proud individual
C                          Gm
Originally meant to live a God-damned miracle
C                               Gm
Might’ve been metaphysical, but I think it was medical
F                      F7
Testing my hypothesis. Never finding a theory

Verse 2:
C                  Gm
Emulating animals, and mental aboriginals
C                       Gm
A miserable fuck, but a loud tao mystical
C                   Gm
An enemy of ritual, traditionally integral
C                      Gm
To biblical originals, but literally pitiful
F                             F7
Too impatient for outpatient. Paging Doctor Leary

Chorus:

Ab                     Bb                                             C Gm C Gm
Did you lose yourself? Well it's always in the last place you'd check
Ab                   G7
I might find myself, by retracing my step
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, how I forgot myself
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, I don't remember 2012
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, how I forgot myself
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, I don't remember 2012
F
I don't remember 2012, I don't remember, oh the whole year's a blur

Verse 3:
C                                 Gm
I think I bought into the comedy, and brought a lot of oddity
C                          Gm
An odyssey I thought to be considered a commodity
C                     Gm
And not until anomaly abolished my monotony
C                    Gm
Did I apply autonomy and modify a lot of me
F                         F7
I'll escape this reality, be the next houdini

Bridge:
C                       Gm
So glory be Satori, but it's hallucinatory
    C                              Gm
And it's sure to be a story we can tell in purgatory
        C                                C#         C
I said, once I’ve lost it can there be a Mahaprajnaparamita?
C                          C#
We are Bodhisattva, we are Buddha dying waking up
   C                                C#
As butterflies, who fall asleep, as Mahaprajnaparamita
C                            C#
We cut down our Bodhi trees, burn Dalai Lama as a witch
C                                C#
From Shangri-La to Auschwitz, we barter karma is a bitch
C                         C#
Glory be Satori, but it's hallucinatory
    C                              C#
And it's sure to be a story we can tell in purgatory
C                               C#
We saw it once on mescaline, enlightenment is boring
         C                        C#
All your heroes reincarnated, the grateful dead is touring
C                    C#
Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, yin-yang tattoos
C                        C#
Fuck your mystic wisdom, find your own way home from Bonnaroo
C                            C#
It's just one more religion, we've done acid Too
C                 C#                C                 C#
Destroy to enjoy. Destroy to enjoy. Destroy to enjoy. Destroy to enjoy

Improvise fretboard abuse here

Chorus:
Ab                     Bb
Did you lose yourself? Well it's always in the last place you'd check
Ab                   G7                   C Gm C Gm
I might find myself, by retracing my step
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, how I forgot myself
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, I don't remember 2012
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, how I forgot myself
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, I don't remember 2012
F
I heard the world would turn to hell, compared to that I'm doing well
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, how I forgot myself
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, I don't remember 2012
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, how I forgot myself
C       Bb        F
I don't remember, I don't remember 2012
F
I don't remember 2012, I don't remember 2012, I don't remember 2012