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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[Intro]
G C
[Verse 1]
G
Did you ever get help?
D
By far and away she's more ingenious
C
She's inferior
G
The dense medium's mine
D
The light one is hers
C
She's bending rays to the interior
Em D C
Did you ever get he--lp with the problems
Em D C
or ex—er—cise?
[Verse 2]
G D
Did you ever get sad on your bed late at night
C
Crying, listening to “Either/Or”?
G D
Did you ever make out on the Capitol steps with an
C
AK-47-holding Marxist girl?
G D C
Did you ever get help with the problems?
C
No, you never can admit it
G D C
That's fine, I’m going home to fail
[Verse 3]
Em D C
Did you ever get help in Argentina?
Em D C
Did you ever get help in Czechoslovakia?
Em D C
Did you ever get help? By far and away, you are ingenious. You’re inferior
Em D C
Did you ever get help? By far and away, I am inventive. I'm inferior
G C
[Verse 1]
G
Did you ever get help?
D
By far and away she's more ingenious
C
She's inferior
G
The dense medium's mine
D
The light one is hers
C
She's bending rays to the interior
Em D C
Did you ever get he--lp with the problems
Em D C
or ex—er—cise?
[Verse 2]
G D
Did you ever get sad on your bed late at night
C
Crying, listening to “Either/Or”?
G D
Did you ever make out on the Capitol steps with an
C
AK-47-holding Marxist girl?
G D C
Did you ever get help with the problems?
C
No, you never can admit it
G D C
That's fine, I’m going home to fail
[Verse 3]
Em D C
Did you ever get help in Argentina?
Em D C
Did you ever get help in Czechoslovakia?
Em D C
Did you ever get help? By far and away, you are ingenious. You’re inferior
Em D C
Did you ever get help? By far and away, I am inventive. I'm inferior
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