Biography:
Jason Collett is a Canadian singer-songwriter. A member of Broken Social Scene, he also tours and records on his own.
The best songs don’t just tell a story set to music – they capture a moment, encapsulate a feeling and draw in the listener, in a way that’s at once singularly personal and completely universal. When Toronto singer-songwriter Jason Collett was mulling over titles for his new album, the by-turns effervescent and elegiac Here’s To Being Here
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Use F (XX3211) for the verse and F (133211) for the chorus
Intro: F, C, F, C, F, C, Am
F C
Does your conscience
F C
keep you up at night?
F C
Did your bleeding heart pay
Am
market price?
F C
There are rumors and suspicion
F C
Tagged telephone lines
F C Am
Biblical conviction must have been the end of times.
Continue pattern of F,C,F,C,F,C,Am for verses
Long white table linen
Where you placed your knife
And taking up important positions
With men of power and their wives
There’s no blue blood in the kitchen.
There’s no blue blood in the mines.
There’s no blue blood in a soldier’s coffee
Coming home from the front lines.
F C
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Em Am
Don’t let the truth get to you.
F C
Don’t let the truth get to you.
G Am
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Continue pattern for second chorus
Preachers and politicians
Conjurers and liars
Scraps of elaborate excuses
And ivory towers
Who’s on television?
Not taking any sides
Modern journalism is just a little bit tongue tied.
And when the emperor’s new rhetoric
Rings hollow in the night
It’s just the redacted cadence of freedom losing its mind.
It’s the cost of doing business.
It’s a terrible price
When the change that caught you believing
Was just nickels and dimes.
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Intro: F, C, F, C, F, C, Am
F C
Does your conscience
F C
keep you up at night?
F C
Did your bleeding heart pay
Am
market price?
F C
There are rumors and suspicion
F C
Tagged telephone lines
F C Am
Biblical conviction must have been the end of times.
Continue pattern of F,C,F,C,F,C,Am for verses
Long white table linen
Where you placed your knife
And taking up important positions
With men of power and their wives
There’s no blue blood in the kitchen.
There’s no blue blood in the mines.
There’s no blue blood in a soldier’s coffee
Coming home from the front lines.
F C
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Em Am
Don’t let the truth get to you.
F C
Don’t let the truth get to you.
G Am
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Continue pattern for second chorus
Preachers and politicians
Conjurers and liars
Scraps of elaborate excuses
And ivory towers
Who’s on television?
Not taking any sides
Modern journalism is just a little bit tongue tied.
And when the emperor’s new rhetoric
Rings hollow in the night
It’s just the redacted cadence of freedom losing its mind.
It’s the cost of doing business.
It’s a terrible price
When the change that caught you believing
Was just nickels and dimes.
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Don’t let the truth get to you.
Don’t let the truth get to you.
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