Biography:
Jonathan Coulton is a geek rock / folk rock musician active since 2003 from Brooklyn, known for his songs about geek culture. He is best known for such compositions as "Still Alive" and "Code Monkey", as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back". He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures.
Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
- A Talk With George
- Alone At Home
- Artificial Heart
- Baby Got Back (acoustic Version)
- Baby Got Back Acoustic
- Betty And Me
- Big Bad World One
- Chiron Beta Prime
- Code Monkey
- Dissolve
- Down Today
- Drinking With You
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- First Of May
- Glasses
- Good Morning Tuscon
- I Crush Everything
- I'm Your Moon
- Ikea
- Mr. Fancy Pants
- My Monkey
- Nemeses
- Not About You
- One Christmas At A Time
- Portal - Still Alive - Valve (full)
- Re: Your Brains
- Shopvac
- Skullcrusher Mountain
- Soft Rocked By Me
- Still Alive
- Still Alive- Artificial Heart Version
- The Future Soon
- Tom Cruise Crazy
- When You Go
- You Ruined Everything
- Want You Gone
- A Laptop Like You
- All This Time
- Always The Moon
- Baby Got Back
- Ball And Chain
- Better
- Blue Sunny
- Blue Sunny Day
- Bozos Lament
- Brave
- Brookline
- Cave
- Christmas Is Interesting
- Creepy Doll
- Curl
- Dance Soterios Johnson Dance
- De
- Dont Talk To Strangers
- Flickr
- Fraud
- Furry Old Lobster
- Gamblers Prayer
- Good Morning Tucson
- I Feel Fantastic
- I Hate California
- I Will
- If The Earth Were A Sandwich
- Im Having A Party
- Im Your Moon
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- Love Aint No Billy Goat
- Madelaine
- Mandelbrot Set
- Millionaire Girlfriend
- Mr Fancy Pants
- My Beige Bear
- Nemesese
- Nobody Loves You Like Me
- Nobodys Above The Law
- Now I Am An Arsonist
- Octopus
- Ordinary Man
- Over There
- Overhead
- Pizza Day
- Podsafe Christmas Song
- Popsci Podcast On The Moon
- Previously On Braindead
- Re Your Brains
- Red Shirt
- Screwed
- Shop Vac
- So Far So Good
- Solid State
- Someone Is Crazy
- Space Doggity
- Square Things
- Sticking It To Myself
- Sucker Punch
- The Big Boom
- The Presidents
- The Presidents Song
- The Princess Who Saved Herself
- The Town Crotch
- The World Belongs To You
- There You Are
- Today With Your Wife
- Todd The T1000
- Under The Pines
- You Could Be Her
- You Wouldnt Know
- Your Tattoo
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Chords taken from Jocopedia, the Jonathan Coulton wiki.
Transcribed by Colcoction
[Intro]
D A x4
[Verse 1]
D A
Good things never last long when you've
D A
Come to expect them
D A
The whole world is doing it wrong and I
G
Can't not correct them
Em D/F# G
Slack-jawed sheeple with their eyes closed
Em D/F# G A
As if I don't already have
[Chorus]
D A
Enough to do
Bm G
There's too many of you
D A Bm G
More than I can save
D A
When I torch the place
Bm G
Cover up my face
Em G
That will make me brave
Em Gmaj7
That will make me brave
[Interlude]
D A x2
[Verse 2]
D A
Heroes, we pay a high price. There's a
D A
Girl who ignores me
D A
Good guy, I used to be nice, now I
G
Hate 'til it bores me
Em D/F# G
Small-time pitiful rebellions
Em D/F# G A
I'm here, puckered up, sucking on these
[Chorus]
D A
Sour grapes
Bm G
Filling in the shapes of
D A Bm G
Shadows in my cave
D A
When I torch the place
Bm G
Cover up my face
Em G
That will make me brave
Em Gmaj7
That will make me brave
[Bridge]
A G
You speak and presto-change-o, great—
Now I'm the bad one
A G
Your manifesto's strange, oh, wait—
A
You don't even have one
[Solo]
D A Bm G x3
Em G Em Gmaj7
[Verse 3]
D A
Sunlight is kicking up dust as I
D A
Stare down the morning
D A
Who's left? There's no one I trust and I'm
G
Sure it's a warning
Em D/F# G
Up late, measuring the harm done
Em D/F# G (A)
My heart hardening, counting up the
[Chorus]
D A
Lonely nights
Bm G
All the little slights I'm
D A Bm G
Taking to my grave
D A
When I torch the place
Bm G
Cover up my face
Em G
That will make me brave
Em Gmaj7
That will make me brave
[Outro]
D A Bm A G
Transcribed by Colcoction
[Intro]
D A x4
[Verse 1]
D A
Good things never last long when you've
D A
Come to expect them
D A
The whole world is doing it wrong and I
G
Can't not correct them
Em D/F# G
Slack-jawed sheeple with their eyes closed
Em D/F# G A
As if I don't already have
[Chorus]
D A
Enough to do
Bm G
There's too many of you
D A Bm G
More than I can save
D A
When I torch the place
Bm G
Cover up my face
Em G
That will make me brave
Em Gmaj7
That will make me brave
[Interlude]
D A x2
[Verse 2]
D A
Heroes, we pay a high price. There's a
D A
Girl who ignores me
D A
Good guy, I used to be nice, now I
G
Hate 'til it bores me
Em D/F# G
Small-time pitiful rebellions
Em D/F# G A
I'm here, puckered up, sucking on these
[Chorus]
D A
Sour grapes
Bm G
Filling in the shapes of
D A Bm G
Shadows in my cave
D A
When I torch the place
Bm G
Cover up my face
Em G
That will make me brave
Em Gmaj7
That will make me brave
[Bridge]
A G
You speak and presto-change-o, great—
Now I'm the bad one
A G
Your manifesto's strange, oh, wait—
A
You don't even have one
[Solo]
D A Bm G x3
Em G Em Gmaj7
[Verse 3]
D A
Sunlight is kicking up dust as I
D A
Stare down the morning
D A
Who's left? There's no one I trust and I'm
G
Sure it's a warning
Em D/F# G
Up late, measuring the harm done
Em D/F# G (A)
My heart hardening, counting up the
[Chorus]
D A
Lonely nights
Bm G
All the little slights I'm
D A Bm G
Taking to my grave
D A
When I torch the place
Bm G
Cover up my face
Em G
That will make me brave
Em Gmaj7
That will make me brave
[Outro]
D A Bm A G
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