Jeffrey Lewis - My Girlfriend Doesnt Worry Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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My girlfriend doesn’t worry
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About the things that always trouble me
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She says “Why are you so grumpy?
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Let’s just both sit here quiet and calmly
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And you probably should be thinking first
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About how glad you’ll be if you do some work
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And about our relationship.”
 
 
[Verse 2]
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My girlfriend doesn’t worry about the vision Mao Tse-Tung had for China
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Was agrarian reform for the better?
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Or is cynicism part of our culture?
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Why did people fight and die for their freedom?
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Was Utopia a lie as a concept?
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Is the Western model really our future?
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Is there nothing any better to work towards?
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And is progress only science in action?
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Does it truly have a moral dimension?
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Was the century a dream before failure?
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Have we settled for this present existence?
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Was it only necessary for peasants?
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Would I really give up ego involvement?
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Is there any global movement for justice?
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In a world of only selfish survival?
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Because it’s obvious we’re going to serfdom
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If we accept the barbary of the system
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But would I really want to work in a factory?
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Would I really make my art for a leader?
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Would Mao be in the thumb of our music?
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Or is everything just horror and power?
 
 
[Chorus]
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These are massive, giant, troubling, consuming thoughts saturating my thinking
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But I think she’ll just think it’s annoying so I won’t bring it up
 
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She says “it just doesn’t make any sense, you should think about your art
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And your friends and about our relationship.”
 
 
[Verse 3]
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My girlfriend doesn’t question the psychology of Charles Manson
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What does it say about the human condition?
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Why are people so receptive to listen?
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And why is confidence alone such a magnet?
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It’s unfair the way some people have it
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And they seem to do the things that they want to
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We all just get away with all that we can do
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Because it’s only sexiness that has any value
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And all society just falls by the wayside
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Into the hierarchy of cult and apparent
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And it’s genetics to be masters of victim
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And does hedonism go with corruption?
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Why are we drawn to dramas of domination?
 
 
[Chorus]
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These are massive, giant, troubling, consuming thoughts that I'm thinking
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But I think she’ll just think it’s annoying so I won’t bring it up
 
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She says “why are you thinking of him, you should just think about your family
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And friends and about our relationship.”
 
 
[Verse 4]
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My girlfriend doesn’t wonder while driving about the emptiness of human existence
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How can we make any decision if it’s only arbitrary opinion?
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And why should anyone have a baby?
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Create another brain of dissatisfaction?
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If we’re only biological robots
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With a program that is mostly feel anxious
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Except for moments of brief distraction
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While fulfilling simple functions like eating
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While being ordered to enjoy reproducing
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But how can doing what you’re told be fulfilling?
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All is misery or patent delusions
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To just fill ourselves with comforting nonsense
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All terrified of seeing it clearly
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And then dying out with no revolution
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All tumbling down a mountain to nothing
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While feeling greedy and mean and unhappy
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Basically a meaningless fungus
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Obviously boring and pointless
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And we’ll probably have a baby despite this
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And be responsible for someone’s confusion
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Why subject them to a long life of work?
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Or feel horrible if they should die young?
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Or feel horrible if we die and leave them?
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The only happiness is if something’s funny
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But what does funniness even mean?
 
 
[Chorus]
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These are massive, giant, troubling, consuming burdens weighing on my thinking
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But I think that she’ll just think I’m annoying and I don’t want to lose her
 
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She says “why are you talking so much, how come you never talk about us?
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Let’s just think quiet and nice thoughts and about our relationship”
 
 
[Outro]
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