{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2812976,"song":"Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror","artist":"Jeffrey Lewis","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11639266-williamsburg-will-oldham-horror-chords-by-jeffrey-lewis/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2812976?type=chord","rating":4.99396,"votes":6,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nToday I went to Major Matt's to remaster my old album[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd on the L train in the morning, I was pretty sure I saw Will Oldham[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe was wearin' the same sunglasses he had on stage at the Bowery Ballroom[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHad he come to walk among the Williamsburgers of his kingdom?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd like the burghers of Calais will a sacrifice be demanded[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo offer up our dreams and beg for mercy empty-handed?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd hapless in our hipness crowded 5 to an apartment[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nRelegate our dreams to hobbies and deny our disappointment[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause The Stones in '65 want total satisfaction, kid[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut The Stones in '69 see grace in just getting what you need[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut if that's a victory, then I'd hate to see what I'd look like defeated[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause I know there are those walk among us who seem to get their dreams unimpeded[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike, today I went to Major Matt's to remaster my old album[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd on the L train in the morning, I was really sure I saw Will Oldham[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe was wearin' the same sunglasses he had on stage at the Bowery Ballroom[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHad he come to walk among the Williamsburgers of his kingdom?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd you might say now there's a guy who seems to have their world laid out before him[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOr you might say, he's just a rich kid or a fascist or a charlatan[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut either way you say it if you look at indie-rock culture you really can't ignore him[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd even if at first dismissive, after some listens you'll enjoy him[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI was thinking this on the L train, intent on bursting my own bubble[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHow long should an artist struggle before it isn't worth the hassle?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd admit we aren't fit to be the one inside the castle[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIs this quest for greatness or at least hipness just a scam and too much trouble?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut then what makes on human being worthy of an easy ride[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBorn to be a natural artist you love or hate but can't deny[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhile us minions in our millions tumble into history's chasm[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe might have a couple of laughs but we're still wastes of protoplasm[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike, today I was gonna waste some time and money to remaster some dumb old album[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd on the L train in the morning, i was really sure I saw Will Oldham[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe was wearin' the same big sunglasses he had on stage at the Bowery Ballroom[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHad he come to see the strife here in the gutters of his kingdom?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere us noble starving artists are striving hard to feed our egos[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOur mothers like our music our our friends come see our shows[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd if our friends become successful, we'll consider them our foes[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGo home to our four roommates after payin' big bucks for rockstars' shows[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhat a nightmare! What a horror! I don't want no part of this[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGet me off this crazy ride! I'm gonna puke, I'm gonna piss![/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'd rather kill myself I'd rather just relax or not exist![/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut you say you wanna do an e-mail interview? Oh what the heck, I can't resist![/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHey ma, guess what? Today I did another magazine interview![/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Honey, that's great, you're really famous!\" Yeah and I'm twenty seven too![/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI kinda thought I was gonna grow up to do stuff that would benefit humanity[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut it's getting harder to tell if this artist's life is even benefiting me[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCause today I was gonna waste some time and money today to remaster some dumb old album[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd on the L train in the morning, I was totally sure I saw Will Oldham[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe was wearin' the same big sunglasses he had on stage at the Bowery Ballroom[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd since I was feeling in need of answers I just went right up and asked him, I said[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Will Bonnie Prince, Palace or whatever, what do you think about it?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIs it worth being an artist or an indie-rock star, or are you better off without it?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCause you know maybe the world would be better if we were all just un-creative drones[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNo dead childhood dreams to haunt us, a decent job, a decent home[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd if we had some extra time we could do real things to promote peace[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBecome scientists or history teachers or un-corrupt police at least[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Come on Will, you gotta tell me!\" I grabbed and shook him by the arm[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe L train was leaning Bedford with 10,000 white twenty-somethings crowed on[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe opened his mouth to speak but it was lost in the rumbling of the wheels[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe were thrown together in a corner and I yelled \"Tell me, man, for real!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou're living comfortably, I assume, even if you're not quite a household name[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou've reached a pretty high level of success and critical acclaim[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe L train got to First Avenue and a bunch of people piled out[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI was staring into his sunglasses and I was really freakin' out, I was like[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSteamboat Willie Bonnie Prince of all this shit,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou're like the king of a certain genre but even you must want to quit[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike if you hear a record by Bob Dylan or Neil Young or whatever[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou must start thinkin' \"Yeah, people like me, but I won't be that good ever\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'm sure the thing is probably Dylan himself too[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nStayed up some nights wishing he was as good as Ginsberg or Camus[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he was like \"Dude, I'm such a faker, I'm just a clown who entertains[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd these fools who pay for my crap, they just have pathetic puny brains[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd Camus probably wished he was Milton too or whatever, you know what i'm sayin'?!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo Will, will you be straight with me now that it's just us two on this train?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n'Cause I was gonna spend some time and money today to remaster some dumb old album[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I saw you here on the L train and I was like \"Hey, is that Will Oldham?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe must at least have some perspective cause it's like, living in this town[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI get so confused and wound up and uptight and I just don't know up from down[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd then we'd reached the last stop and the subway was deserted[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere was a long moment of silence and I let go of his shirt[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI started to think that maybe I'd made some kind of big mistake[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI tried to walk out onto the platform but by then it was too late[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHis sunglasses seemed to grow darker and still he hadn't even spoke[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe just came right up behind me and put his hands around my throat[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd threw me down onto the concrete and kicked my face in with his boot[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd dragged me down onto the train tracks and tied my hands back with his coat[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I was slipping out of consciousness as he was slipping down my jeans[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he was punching me and humping me and I slipped off into a dream[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo it might have just been a delusion but I thought I heard him say[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSomething like, \"Artists are pussies\" then he climbed back up and ran away[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I lay there in the darkness on the train tracks cold and broken[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe hours passed and I thought \"well, maybe I won't remaster that old album\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd then I started thinking maybe it really wasn't even Will Oldham[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nEven though he did hold my arms and fuck me just like Will sings in \"A Sucker's Evening\"[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut whether it was him or not I couldn't forget the words he'd spoken[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Artists are pussies,\" like, we're wusses or we end up getting fucked[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd other kinds of folks are dicks: tall, smart and strong and born to fuck us up[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI know it sounds really sexist and stupid, It's a terrible analogy.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut at that moment on the train tracks, it made a lot of sense to me[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMaybe it's just some kind of natural balance, like 2 types of mental gender[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat's gone on in all societies in one form or another,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLike some dicks were born to conquer, I probably would if I could,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut if I'm just a pussy, that's okay, 'cause in a few months maybe I'll put out something 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