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
D xx0232
Dsus4 xx0233
F# 244322
Bm x24432
D7 xx0212
G 320033
Dmaj7 xx0222
F#aug x24332
Bm7 x24232
E 022100
A x02220
Em 022000
D/F# 2x0232
Gm 355333
Bb 688766
F 133211
A7 x02020
A7sus4 x02030
Aaug xx7665
[Intro]
|D |Dsus4|D |Dsus4|
[Verse 1]
D F#
Last week I left a note on Laura's desk
Bm D7
It said I love you signed anonymous friend
G Dmaj7
Turns out she's smarter than I thought she was
G D F#
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too
Bm F#aug
And I'm alone during couple skate
Bm7 E
When she skates by with some guy on her arm
G A G A
But I know that I'll forget the look of pity in her face
G A G A
When I'm living in my solar dome on a platform in space
[Chorus]
D A
Cause it's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
And I won't always be this way
D A
When the things that make me weak and strange get
Em D/F# G A
engineered away
D A
It's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
I've never seen it quite so clear
Gm D Em
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and
A D
it's already here
[Verse 2]
D F#
I'll probably be some kind of scientist
Bm D7
Building inventions in my space lab in space
G Dmaj7
I'll end world hunger I'll make dolphins speak
G D F#
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Bm F#aug
Perfecting my warrior robot race
Bm7 E
Building them one laser gun at a time
G A
I will do my best to teach them
G A
About life and what it's worth
G A G A
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth
[Chorus]
D A
Cause it's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
And I won't always be this way
D A
When the things that make me weak and strange get
Em D/F# G A
engineered away
D A
It's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
I've never seen it quite so clear
Gm D Em
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and
A D
it's already here
[Bridge]
Bb F
Here on Earth they'll wonder
Bb D
As I piece by piece replace myself
Bb F
And the steel and circuits will make me whole
Em A7sus4 A7
But I'll still feel so alone
Em Aaug
Until Laura calls me home
[Verse 3]
D F#
I'll see her standing by the monorail
Bm D7
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes
G Dmaj7
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
G D F#
I'll say I'm sorry, she'll say it's not your fault
Bm
Or is it?
F#aug
And she eyes me suspiciously
Bm7 E
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
G A
She will scream and try to run
G A
But there's nowhere she can hide
G A G A
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride
[Chorus]
D A
Cause it's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
And I won't always be this way
D A
When the things that make me weak and strange get
Em D/F# G A
engineered away
D A
It's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
I've never seen it quite so clear
Gm D Em
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and
A
it's already here
D xx0232
Dsus4 xx0233
F# 244322
Bm x24432
D7 xx0212
G 320033
Dmaj7 xx0222
F#aug x24332
Bm7 x24232
E 022100
A x02220
Em 022000
D/F# 2x0232
Gm 355333
Bb 688766
F 133211
A7 x02020
A7sus4 x02030
Aaug xx7665
[Intro]
|D |Dsus4|D |Dsus4|
[Verse 1]
D F#
Last week I left a note on Laura's desk
Bm D7
It said I love you signed anonymous friend
G Dmaj7
Turns out she's smarter than I thought she was
G D F#
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too
Bm F#aug
And I'm alone during couple skate
Bm7 E
When she skates by with some guy on her arm
G A G A
But I know that I'll forget the look of pity in her face
G A G A
When I'm living in my solar dome on a platform in space
[Chorus]
D A
Cause it's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
And I won't always be this way
D A
When the things that make me weak and strange get
Em D/F# G A
engineered away
D A
It's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
I've never seen it quite so clear
Gm D Em
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and
A D
it's already here
[Verse 2]
D F#
I'll probably be some kind of scientist
Bm D7
Building inventions in my space lab in space
G Dmaj7
I'll end world hunger I'll make dolphins speak
G D F#
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Bm F#aug
Perfecting my warrior robot race
Bm7 E
Building them one laser gun at a time
G A
I will do my best to teach them
G A
About life and what it's worth
G A G A
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth
[Chorus]
D A
Cause it's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
And I won't always be this way
D A
When the things that make me weak and strange get
Em D/F# G A
engineered away
D A
It's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
I've never seen it quite so clear
Gm D Em
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and
A D
it's already here
[Bridge]
Bb F
Here on Earth they'll wonder
Bb D
As I piece by piece replace myself
Bb F
And the steel and circuits will make me whole
Em A7sus4 A7
But I'll still feel so alone
Em Aaug
Until Laura calls me home
[Verse 3]
D F#
I'll see her standing by the monorail
Bm D7
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes
G Dmaj7
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
G D F#
I'll say I'm sorry, she'll say it's not your fault
Bm
Or is it?
F#aug
And she eyes me suspiciously
Bm7 E
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
G A
She will scream and try to run
G A
But there's nowhere she can hide
G A G A
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride
[Chorus]
D A
Cause it's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
And I won't always be this way
D A
When the things that make me weak and strange get
Em D/F# G A
engineered away
D A
It's gonna be the future soon
Bm G
I've never seen it quite so clear
Gm D Em
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and
A
it's already here
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