Biography:
Emperor X is a pop/noise/folk music project headed by American musician C. R. Matheny. The project often performs and records with little more than Matheny on an acoustic guitar and a dynamic microphone, but sometimes also employs large groups of musicians on percussion instruments, various electronic noisemakers, brass/woodwind/string ensembles, and traditional rock instruments.
The lyrics of Emperor X songs have been described as simultaneously "hallucinatory" and "precise
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Emperor X
"Compressor Repair"
From the album "Western Teleport" (2011)
NOTE: The album version is played on a piano tuned slightly flat of concert pitch.
The live versions are played in different keys, usually G or A. Use the transpose tool to adjust accordingly.
[Verse]
F# C#
Compressor repair is not in my skill set
B
And that's why the floor's wet
F# C#
By the window's broken unit
F# C#
And I crawled across the puddle that it made
B
And lost my traction for a while
B
But I was safe and I repaired
F# C#
The only thing that I knew how to fix there
[Pre-Chorus]
B C# D#m C#
We threw our shoes at God
B C# D#m C#
And I heard you praying for clean runoff
B C# D#m C#
And we trashed your AC and its broken freon coils
F#
It wasn't EnergyStar
C#
It wasted BTUs
C#
It wasn't right but it was there because
[Chorus]
F# C# B
I want you to be cool
C# F#
I wanted you to be cool
F# C# B
Cooled off and we got a reaction
C# F#
I wanted you to be cool
"Compressor Repair"
From the album "Western Teleport" (2011)
NOTE: The album version is played on a piano tuned slightly flat of concert pitch.
The live versions are played in different keys, usually G or A. Use the transpose tool to adjust accordingly.
[Verse]
F# C#
Compressor repair is not in my skill set
B
And that's why the floor's wet
F# C#
By the window's broken unit
F# C#
And I crawled across the puddle that it made
B
And lost my traction for a while
B
But I was safe and I repaired
F# C#
The only thing that I knew how to fix there
[Pre-Chorus]
B C# D#m C#
We threw our shoes at God
B C# D#m C#
And I heard you praying for clean runoff
B C# D#m C#
And we trashed your AC and its broken freon coils
F#
It wasn't EnergyStar
C#
It wasted BTUs
C#
It wasn't right but it was there because
[Chorus]
F# C# B
I want you to be cool
C# F#
I wanted you to be cool
F# C# B
Cooled off and we got a reaction
C# F#
I wanted you to be cool
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