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
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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
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Intro:
A D A D A D A D
Verse 1:
A D
You hold up one hand
F#m
Everyone waits
E
Until we can move again
A D
The burden of command
F#m
Stands you up straight
G
Something to prove again
D
Blood in your eyes
Bm
Screams on the radio
A D
They say, "Get out of there!"
Bm
We aren't finished yet
E D
You tell them to grow a pair
Chorus:
A E
They said this air would be breathable
F#m D
Get in, get out again, and no one gets hurt
A E
Something is pulling me up the hill
D
I look down in my red shirt
Bm A
I look down in my red shirt
D A D A D A D
Verse 2:
A D
This familiar place
F#m
Sun in my eyes
E
Right where I'm supposed to be
A D
I can read your face
F#m
I'm not surprised
G
You move in close to me
D
Then you decide
Bm
Now I'm remembering
A D
I've seen this one before
Bm
I can't stop watching it
E D
So what am I running for?
Chorus:
A E
They said this air would be breathable
F#m D
Get in, get out again, and no one gets hurt
A E
You nod to me and point up the hill
D
I look down in my red shirt
Bm F#m E D
I look down in my red shirt
F#m E D
At my red shirt
Verse 3:
A D
I don't hear the sound
F#m
Everything slows
E
All of it falls away
A D
They don't turn around
F#m
Everyone knows
G
It won't be them today
D
Instead it was me
Bm
Go down dramatically
A D
Stretching it out a bit
Bm
Still no one notices
E D
When they write me out of it
Chorus:
A E
They said this air would be breathable
F#m D
I see the naked sky and I taste the dirt
A E
Dark at the edges and closing in
D
I look down in my red shirt
Bm A
I look down in my red shirt
D A D A D A
A D A D A D A D
Verse 1:
A D
You hold up one hand
F#m
Everyone waits
E
Until we can move again
A D
The burden of command
F#m
Stands you up straight
G
Something to prove again
D
Blood in your eyes
Bm
Screams on the radio
A D
They say, "Get out of there!"
Bm
We aren't finished yet
E D
You tell them to grow a pair
Chorus:
A E
They said this air would be breathable
F#m D
Get in, get out again, and no one gets hurt
A E
Something is pulling me up the hill
D
I look down in my red shirt
Bm A
I look down in my red shirt
D A D A D A D
Verse 2:
A D
This familiar place
F#m
Sun in my eyes
E
Right where I'm supposed to be
A D
I can read your face
F#m
I'm not surprised
G
You move in close to me
D
Then you decide
Bm
Now I'm remembering
A D
I've seen this one before
Bm
I can't stop watching it
E D
So what am I running for?
Chorus:
A E
They said this air would be breathable
F#m D
Get in, get out again, and no one gets hurt
A E
You nod to me and point up the hill
D
I look down in my red shirt
Bm F#m E D
I look down in my red shirt
F#m E D
At my red shirt
Verse 3:
A D
I don't hear the sound
F#m
Everything slows
E
All of it falls away
A D
They don't turn around
F#m
Everyone knows
G
It won't be them today
D
Instead it was me
Bm
Go down dramatically
A D
Stretching it out a bit
Bm
Still no one notices
E D
When they write me out of it
Chorus:
A E
They said this air would be breathable
F#m D
I see the naked sky and I taste the dirt
A E
Dark at the edges and closing in
D
I look down in my red shirt
Bm A
I look down in my red shirt
D A D A D A
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