Something I Should Do

[Intro]
E B F# E B
F# E B F#
E B F#
E

[Chorus]
E B
   My headphones are playing duet
F#       E
  With a fire engine
B
 I walk through the cloud of an ex
F#      E
  And I feel no tension
B
 All the buildings are blocking the wind
F#   E
  Of late October
B
 'Round the corner, it shoots out again
F#        E
  And I'm starting over

[Interlude]
B
Dance, dance
                   A
Dance, dance around the door
B
Dance, dance
                   A
Dance, dance around the door

[Chorus]
E     B
 Hold still
              F#
Limit what you  see
   E
Be free for a while
       B
Lie in room like you're lying on a hill
F#                           E
  There's a mountain on your window sill
      B              F#
There is help for raw  souls
  E
A language for the shy
   B                  F#
You don't have to say hello
    E
But look them in the eye

[Verse 1]
B
 Two things, a great fog of stuff, engrossing, fleeting,
bewildering
And then,
A
 a feeling of tilt that we're rushing down a slope
                         B
Do we not see it all the time because we're sliding at the
same speed?
A sense of safety preserved by the static distance between
us
A
 Sometimes I try to imagine a village hundred of years ago
                 B
Where little changes during a lifetime
Maybe the cobbler tries a new heel on a boot,
crops are rotated
                    A
But nothing changes how people are
What they spend their time doing or thinking about

[Pre-Chorus]
                   E             B
The world is dying, the world is living
F# E B F#
E

[Chorus]
E B
   There's something that I should do
F#      E
  But I never know how
B
 Things I should say to you
F#         E
  But it's total whiteout
E B
   In the night reading actual air
F#  E
  Always reforming
B                              F#
 Imagine that I'll be somewhere  new
E
In the morning

[Verse 2]
B
 I was asked to write a song about social media
And I didn't want to anyway I'm pretty hooked
              A
So don't feel I'm in much of a position to critique it
                                     B
And selfcritique is loaded for me anyway
Because I've done plenty of that
And while I know that people can identify with it
And get comfort from hearing someone else
   A
Address themselves sternly
                                                   B
I'm also trying to get away from selfregard in general
Even though the unexamined life is not worth living
More opposing truths, they're everywhere
                  A
Still training to hold them
I'm trying look out
Leave the mirror out of it
        B
See the tree and contemplate it
And not question who or what I am in a relation to the tree
But I don't know what it means yet
     A
That we are partially migrating into a silent conversation

[Verse 3]
                       E          B
That seems to be increasing unity and tribalism at once
                                           F#
And maybe the two are racing now without a finish line
                        E
I was going to say that likely few got good thinking
                            B
Done during the seventeenth century Dutch tulip craze
And this is not so different
         F#                                          E
But I've recently been heartened and disappointed to learn
That story was greatly exaggerated
   B
Anyway we're crazy but also we're not crazy we're
complicated
F#
  We want things to be simple
    E                                                    B
And we polarize into camps and we harden and entrench And
distort and amplify and shut down and entrench some more
F#
  Now you don't have to join a drum circle
E
And get all peace and love and HaightAshbury
                B
And anyway that took
Only a few months to turn into a bad scene, hard drug,
   F#
dystopia
Where some people will rob you
   E
And you can't be too open but the
                   B
Hippies sure had a point
Empathy is good, lack of empathy is bad
        F#                            E
And now the lines of nonfacts waiting to get in the
conversation
              B
Are longer and longer
And some people can't be beat in an argument
We have to hold to that hippie point harder
Empathy is good, lack of empathy is bad
Holy math says we're never not together