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~From: Virginia.A.Reed@dartmouth.edu (Alex Reed (LX))
Self Called Nowhere
by They Might Be Giants
from John Henry
transcribed by Alex Reed
Gm D F E
I'm sitting on the curb in an empty parking lot
Cm D4 D G E
By the store where they let me play the organ
Am Am w/ major 7 Cm Eflat m
I'm Waiting for a ride but I want to wait inside
Bflat E Bflat
The store where they let me play the organ
Eflat m F
But I'm thinking of a wooden chair
Eflat m F
In the room at the top of the stair
Eflat m no chord
(something - I don't have the lyrics with me)
chorus chords:
Gflat
E
Eflat
Eflat
(repeat)
D just before second verse
return to verse chords for verse, etc.
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Thanx,
-Alex
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Enjoy,
Ira
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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jim Professional |
#1 by jim d.f at Dec 14, 1982 at 8:56 PM EST |
| I will also vote that it's definitely ID. As in Freud's theory of "Id", "Ego", and "Super Ego". Id - "The id contains "primitive desires" (hunger, rage and sex)" | |
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Ryan Average |
#2 by Ryan Noffke at Sep 8, 1990 at 4:05 AM EST |
| I think the narator of the song is lonely and down on his luck. He feels like an outsider, I think, "but I want to wait inside of the store where they let me play the organ" For me at least, I always hate waiting for rides inside buildings, because it feels like everyone there is watching you and wondering what the hell your still doing their. He wants to go in, because its warmer there, or cooler, or just a nicer place to wait than out on the curb alone; but he doesn't want to feel like he doesnt belong. The reference to the wooden chair is a little harder to understand... But I think it might be reffering to that same feeling of bein down on your luck and left out of the world. A wooden chair is probably the most uncomfortable kind of chair there is, and to be sitting alone in a room in a wooden chair, stairing down the stairs is a pretty lonely place to be. I think he bought the organ because he thought it would make him feel cool and happy, after all, whats cooler than a professional musician? But it didnt work out because he ended up out on the curb, waiting alone for his ride because now he doesn't have a car to take himself home. Thus, he ended up making himself feel like an outsider after all. A viscous circle, as it were. | |
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Dustin Wanna Be |
#3 by Dustin Cogburn at Oct 24, 1995 at 2:40 AM EST |
| NOOO!!!!!! It is it, not ID. There is only one syllable. ID is two. | |
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Jordan Lead Player |
#4 by Jordan Gadsby at Jan 4, 1998 at 3:57 PM EST |
| But as for the song... I came up with the idea that they might have been implying a place that's a "self-called" nowhere.(Just a place the protagonist thinks of as being nowhere) But it's also possible that the self is a metaphor for a place. | |
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