Lirik dan Chord Lagu I Want to Be Well - Sufjan Stevens

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Sufjan Stevens merupakan penyanyi asal Amerika Serikat yang membawakan lagu berjudul “I Want to Be Well”.

Lagu berdurasi 6,27 menit ini dirilis pada 2010 melalui label musik Asthmatic Kitty Records.

“I Want to Be Well” dimuat sebagai trek kesepuluh dalam album studio keenam Stevens yang bertajuk The Age of Adz.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu All for Myself - Sufjan Stevens

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “I Want to Be Well” dari Sufjan Stevens:

Capo 1

[Verse 1]
G                                Bm          F
To think that I would die this time
              C/G                                     G
Isolated in the room where the bed rises
                       D                              A
Photographic ordinary people are everywhere
F#m                               Dm                         Bm
Extraordinary histories, ordinary histories, ordinary histories

[Counterverse 1]
F           G         Dm        C
I’ll find sleep, I’ll find peace
Bm     Dm           Abm          F6
Or in death we sleep with ease

[Verse 2]
G                        Bm         F
To figure that it was my fault
                              C/G               G
Or so I’ve come to realize life is not about
                              D                               A
Love to some and, ordinary people are everywhere
F#m                                  Dm                            Bm
Extraordinary people are, ordinary people are, ordinary people are

[Counterverse 2]
F                 G               Dm            C
Everywhere you look, everywhere you turn
Bm          Dm            Abm          F6
Illness is watching, waiting its turn

[Bridge 1]
C                     E
Did I go at it wrong?
                F                 Dbm     Abm
Or did I go intentionally to destroy me?
Am                       Dbm                           G                Dbm   Abm
I’m suffering in noise I’m suffering in (touching ordinary body)
Am                           E                                             F           Dbm Abm
The burning from within the burning from with (ordinary hysteria)
Am                        Dbm                            G                             Abm E7
I could not be at rest, I could not be at peace (extraordinary hysteria)

[Verse 3]
Am                        D                                  F                     C
So do yourself a good, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes
Am                        D                                  F                     C      Am/C
Or do yourself a favor, or do yourself a death from ordinary causes

[Bridge 2]
Fmaj7   Am         Dm                             G
Illness likes, to prey upon the lonely, prey upon the lonely
Fmaj7     Am          Dm                               G
When it bites, oh, I would rather be dead I would rather give up

[Interlude]
F G Dm C
ooooooooooooooooooooh
Bm Dm Abm F6
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[Chorus 1]
   F
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
   C
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
   Dm
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
   C/G
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
   Am/E
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well
   G9
I want to be well, I want to be well
I want to be well, I want to be well

[Verse 4]
F                                                                       Am/C
And I forgive you even? as you choke me that way
                             Am/B*                               Dm/A
With the pill or demon? and the shrouded shalom
                          Dm/A                                  C/G
Under conversation? in tremendous weight of
                                    C/F
A crowd of ages outside ?dressed for murder
              Am/E
I’m not fucking around
                                        G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
       Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not

[Chorus 2]
              F
I’m not fucking around
                                        Am/C
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                    Am/B*           Dm/A
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                                        C/G
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
       C/F                            Am/E
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                                        G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
       Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not

[Verse 5]
F                                                                      Am/C
And shall I kiss you even as you take me that way?
                               Am/B*                        Dm/A
With the pill or demon as my body changes
                                 Dm/A                                  C/G
Apparitions gone awry they surround me, all sides
                                  C/F
But from within I see it, unholy changes
              Am/E
I'm not fucking around
                                        G9
I’m not, I’m not, I’m not fucking around
                   Gadd9
I’m not, I’m not

[Ulangi Chorus 2]

F