Biography:
23-year-old, Philly-bred singer-songwriter Jesse Ruben freely confides that he’s done a bit of “obsessing” over his second album, The Ones That Matter.
Not that such anxiety is evident on the highly accomplished disc, the follow-up to Ruben’s self-released 2008 debut, Aiming for Honesty. Adding full-band accompaniment to his lush, soulful pop-rock, Ruben also stretches impressively as a writer on The Ones That Matter, achieving a near-novelistic sense of character and setting on finely hewn tracks like “A Lack of Armor
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This Is Why I Need You
Jesse Ruben
Capo 3
[Intro]
C Am C D F G
[Verse]
C Am
I have too many questions and places to go
C D
There are too many options and far too many unknowns
F G
This is why I need you
C Am
And everyone talks now but no one is right
C D
There are too many armies with no one to fight
F G
This is why I need you
[Chorus]
Dm
‘cause you make the darkness less dark
F
you make the edges less sharp
C (C7)
you make the winter feel warmer
Dm
and you make my weakness less weak
F
you make the bottom less deep
C (G)
you make the waiting feel shorter
Am D
you make my crazy feel normal every time
F G C
you are the who, love is the what, and this is the why
Am C D F G
C Am
There are so many problems and no one who cares
C D
There are so many roads, and they all need repairs
F G
This is why I need you
C Am
And there’s not enough chocolate, there’s too many chores
C D
There are so many mountains that I haven’t explored
F G
This is why I need you
[Chorus]
Dm
‘cause you make the darkness less dark
F
you make the edges less sharp
C (C7)
you make the winter feel warmer
Dm
and you make my weakness less weak
F
you make the bottom less deep
C (G)
you make the waiting feel shorter
Am D
you make my crazy feel normal every time
F G C
you are the who, love is the what, and this is the why
Am D
you keep the ship moving forward
Am D
and you make it easy to try
Am D
you make my crazy feel normal every time
[Outro]
F G C (C7)
you are the who, love is the what, this is the why
F G Am
you are the who, love is the what, and this is the why
(slower, on strum each)
F G C
you are the who, love is the what, and this is the why
Jesse Ruben
Capo 3
[Intro]
C Am C D F G
[Verse]
C Am
I have too many questions and places to go
C D
There are too many options and far too many unknowns
F G
This is why I need you
C Am
And everyone talks now but no one is right
C D
There are too many armies with no one to fight
F G
This is why I need you
[Chorus]
Dm
‘cause you make the darkness less dark
F
you make the edges less sharp
C (C7)
you make the winter feel warmer
Dm
and you make my weakness less weak
F
you make the bottom less deep
C (G)
you make the waiting feel shorter
Am D
you make my crazy feel normal every time
F G C
you are the who, love is the what, and this is the why
Am C D F G
C Am
There are so many problems and no one who cares
C D
There are so many roads, and they all need repairs
F G
This is why I need you
C Am
And there’s not enough chocolate, there’s too many chores
C D
There are so many mountains that I haven’t explored
F G
This is why I need you
[Chorus]
Dm
‘cause you make the darkness less dark
F
you make the edges less sharp
C (C7)
you make the winter feel warmer
Dm
and you make my weakness less weak
F
you make the bottom less deep
C (G)
you make the waiting feel shorter
Am D
you make my crazy feel normal every time
F G C
you are the who, love is the what, and this is the why
Am D
you keep the ship moving forward
Am D
and you make it easy to try
Am D
you make my crazy feel normal every time
[Outro]
F G C (C7)
you are the who, love is the what, this is the why
F G Am
you are the who, love is the what, and this is the why
(slower, on strum each)
F G C
you are the who, love is the what, and this is the why
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Jessie B. Pounds
Jessie J
Jet Lag Gemini
Jethro Tull
Jets To Brazil
Jetty Rae
Jewel