White Noise Live Ukulele chords by Will Wood

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