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These Are The Thoughts

Alanis Morissette

RockMedium for beginners3 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Bm×
G
D××

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Bm G D 
 
With my boyfriend
 
D ( intro riff )
 
Is he the one - that I will marry
 
And why is it so hard - to be objective about
 
Myself why do I feel - cellularly alone
 
Am I supposed to live - in this crazy city
 
Bm G D
 
Can blindly continued fear-induced regurtitated life-denying tradition
 
Be overcome
 
D ( intro riff )
 
Where does the mo - ney go that I send
 
To those in need, if we - have so much why do some people have 
 
Nothing still why do - I feel frantic when I 
 
Bm
 
First wake up in the morning - why do you say you are spiritual
 
G D
 
Yet you treat people like shit
 
D
 
How can you say - you're close to God
 
And yet you talk behind - my back as though I'm not
 
A part of you, why do - I say "I'm fine" when it's 
 
Bm 
 
Obvious I'm not, - why's it so hard to tell you what I want
 
G D
 
Why can't you just read my mind?
 
Intro riff
 
Why do I fear - that the quieter I am
 
The less you will listen - why do I care whether you like me 
 
Or not why's it so hard - for me to be angry
 
Bm
 
Why is it such work to stay - conscious and so easy to get stuck
 
G D
 
And not the other way around
 
D ( intro riff )
 
Will I ever move - back to Canada can 
 
I be with a lover - with whom I am a student
 
And a master, oh why am I - encouraged to shut my 
 
Mouth when it gets too close - to home, why cannot I
 
Bm G D
 
Live in the moment
          
 

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Chord set

Bm · G · D

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.