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
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[Chords]
B7 x21202
E 022100
G# 466544
C#m x46654
E7 020100
Amaj7 x02120
Am7 x02010
A x02220
F#m 244222
B7sus4 x22200
Cmaj7 x32000
G 3x0033
C#m7b5 x4545x
D xx0232
[Opening riff]
(Guitar 1) (Guitar 2)
e|------------------| |------------------|
B|------------------| |------------------|
G|------------------| |------6-----------|
D|----6-7-6---------| |6-7-9---9-7-6---6-|
A|7-9-------9-7-6-7-| |--------------9---|
E|------------------| |------------------|
[Verse 1]
B7 E
We took the freeway out of town
B7 E
We found a place to settle down
B7 G# C#m E7
We bought a driveway and a swingset and a dog
Amaj7
You got your very own bathroom
Am7
I got my very own workshop in the basement
E G# C#m A
We sit around staring at the wall-to-wall
E G# C#m A
Take field trips to our favorite mall
E G# C#m A F#m B7
Waiting for the day when all the kids grow up and leave us here
[Chorus]
E
If you need me
B7
I'll be downstairs
E
With the shop vac
A E
You can call but I probably won't hear you
F#m B7sus4
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
B7
(for heaven's sake it's really loud with the shop vac on)
E
But you'll be OK
B7
Cause you'll be upstairs
E
With the TV
A E
You can cry and I probably won't hear you
F#m B7 E A E
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
[Verse 2]
B7 E
We hung a flag above the door
B7 E
Checked out the gourmet grocery store
B7 G# C#m E7
I bought a mower I can ride around the yard
Amaj7
But we haven't got real friends
Am7
And now even the fake ones have stopped calling
E G# C#m A
Maybe if you forget to hide the keys
E G# C#m A
I'll take a ride to Applebee's
E G# C#m A F#m B7
I'll come home drunk on daiquiris and throw up on the neighbor's lawn
[Chorus]
E
If you need me
B7
I'll be downstairs
E
With the shop vac
A E
You can call but I probably won't hear you
F#m B7sus
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
B7
(for heaven's sake it's really loud with the shop vac on)
E
But you'll be OK
B7
Cause you'll be upstairs
E
With the TV
A E
You can cry and I probably won't hear you
F#m B7 E A E
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
[Bridge]
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
I like the Starbucks here that's better than the other one
G
Cause the other one's not as good
Cmaj7 C#m7b5 D
They really need to put a light there cause it's hard to turn
B7
It's hard to make a left turn
[Guitar Solo]
e|-------------|-------------|--------------|-----------|
B|-------------|-------------|---------5----|7b9r7p5----|
G|---------4---|-------------|-----------6-4|--------6-4|
D|---2-/6----6-|--64-2-4----|---2-4/6------|-----------|
A|-4-----------|----------2-2|-4------------|-----------|
E|-------------|-------------|--------------|-----------|
e|--5---7---9-9|-------------|--------------|---------------|
B|-------------|10h12-10-9-10|9-------------|---------------|
G|-6--7---9----|-------------|--9--------9--|11---11b13r12-9|
D|-------------|-------------|----9-11-9---9|---9-----------|
A|-------------|-------------|--------------|---------------|
E|-------------|-------------|--------------|---------------|
e|---------16--|
B|-------------|
G|13h14/16-----|
D|-------------|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
[Verse 3]
B7 E
And when it's time to go to bed
B7 E
I'm still awake inside my head
B7 G# C#m E7
I'm floating up above the house and looking down
Amaj7
I guess I gotta go back there
Am7
I guess there never was any other answer
E G# C#m A
And as the freeway hums the cars go by
E G# C#m A
The headlights roll across the sky
E G# C#m A F#m B7
Many miles away but I can see them speeding through the dark
[Chorus]
E
If you need me
B7
I'll be downstairs
E
With the shop vac
A E
You can call but I probably won't hear you
F#m B7sus
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
B7
(for heaven's sake it's really loud with the shop vac on)
E
But you'll be OK
B7
Cause you'll be upstairs
E
With the TV
A E
You can cry and I probably won't hear you
F#m B7 E A E
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
B7 x21202
E 022100
G# 466544
C#m x46654
E7 020100
Amaj7 x02120
Am7 x02010
A x02220
F#m 244222
B7sus4 x22200
Cmaj7 x32000
G 3x0033
C#m7b5 x4545x
D xx0232
[Opening riff]
(Guitar 1) (Guitar 2)
e|------------------| |------------------|
B|------------------| |------------------|
G|------------------| |------6-----------|
D|----6-7-6---------| |6-7-9---9-7-6---6-|
A|7-9-------9-7-6-7-| |--------------9---|
E|------------------| |------------------|
[Verse 1]
B7 E
We took the freeway out of town
B7 E
We found a place to settle down
B7 G# C#m E7
We bought a driveway and a swingset and a dog
Amaj7
You got your very own bathroom
Am7
I got my very own workshop in the basement
E G# C#m A
We sit around staring at the wall-to-wall
E G# C#m A
Take field trips to our favorite mall
E G# C#m A F#m B7
Waiting for the day when all the kids grow up and leave us here
[Chorus]
E
If you need me
B7
I'll be downstairs
E
With the shop vac
A E
You can call but I probably won't hear you
F#m B7sus4
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
B7
(for heaven's sake it's really loud with the shop vac on)
E
But you'll be OK
B7
Cause you'll be upstairs
E
With the TV
A E
You can cry and I probably won't hear you
F#m B7 E A E
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
[Verse 2]
B7 E
We hung a flag above the door
B7 E
Checked out the gourmet grocery store
B7 G# C#m E7
I bought a mower I can ride around the yard
Amaj7
But we haven't got real friends
Am7
And now even the fake ones have stopped calling
E G# C#m A
Maybe if you forget to hide the keys
E G# C#m A
I'll take a ride to Applebee's
E G# C#m A F#m B7
I'll come home drunk on daiquiris and throw up on the neighbor's lawn
[Chorus]
E
If you need me
B7
I'll be downstairs
E
With the shop vac
A E
You can call but I probably won't hear you
F#m B7sus
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
B7
(for heaven's sake it's really loud with the shop vac on)
E
But you'll be OK
B7
Cause you'll be upstairs
E
With the TV
A E
You can cry and I probably won't hear you
F#m B7 E A E
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
[Bridge]
Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
I like the Starbucks here that's better than the other one
G
Cause the other one's not as good
Cmaj7 C#m7b5 D
They really need to put a light there cause it's hard to turn
B7
It's hard to make a left turn
[Guitar Solo]
e|-------------|-------------|--------------|-----------|
B|-------------|-------------|---------5----|7b9r7p5----|
G|---------4---|-------------|-----------6-4|--------6-4|
D|---2-/6----6-|--64-2-4----|---2-4/6------|-----------|
A|-4-----------|----------2-2|-4------------|-----------|
E|-------------|-------------|--------------|-----------|
e|--5---7---9-9|-------------|--------------|---------------|
B|-------------|10h12-10-9-10|9-------------|---------------|
G|-6--7---9----|-------------|--9--------9--|11---11b13r12-9|
D|-------------|-------------|----9-11-9---9|---9-----------|
A|-------------|-------------|--------------|---------------|
E|-------------|-------------|--------------|---------------|
e|---------16--|
B|-------------|
G|13h14/16-----|
D|-------------|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
[Verse 3]
B7 E
And when it's time to go to bed
B7 E
I'm still awake inside my head
B7 G# C#m E7
I'm floating up above the house and looking down
Amaj7
I guess I gotta go back there
Am7
I guess there never was any other answer
E G# C#m A
And as the freeway hums the cars go by
E G# C#m A
The headlights roll across the sky
E G# C#m A F#m B7
Many miles away but I can see them speeding through the dark
[Chorus]
E
If you need me
B7
I'll be downstairs
E
With the shop vac
A E
You can call but I probably won't hear you
F#m B7sus
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
B7
(for heaven's sake it's really loud with the shop vac on)
E
But you'll be OK
B7
Cause you'll be upstairs
E
With the TV
A E
You can cry and I probably won't hear you
F#m B7 E A E
Because it's loud with the shop vac on
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