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!
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!
Cheerfully stolen from:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Octopus/Tabs
Fear not, though! It falls under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported
license! Yay! Yay? Yes, yay! As long as credit is given and this is not used for commercial
purposes, you can use it. Which I did. Hurray.
Transcribed by Khavall.
Intro: A (A) (A) E
Verse 1:
C#m A
I still remember the words you said
F#m B G#
They were hard enough to leave a mark
C#m A
And now they echo inside my head
F#m B G#
As I spiral down into the dark
A E
I windmill upside down
F#m C#m B
Knowing you'll come at me again
A F#m
And I feel your shadow pass above me
Chorus:
Esus E Esus E
Octopus
Esus E Esus E
Some kind of octopus
Bm F#m
Tearing my shell apart
C#m
Letting the sea get in
A E
You make my insides outside
Verse 2:
C#m A
I don't think I ever saw you blink
F#m B G#
You were so controlled that no one knew
C#m A
And by the time we all stopped to think
F#m B G#
We were already too close to you
A E
Now you keep coming by
F#m C#m B
Telling me it's not what I think
A F#m
But I know a murder when I see one
Chorus:
Esus E Esus E
Octopus
Esus E Esus E
Some kind of octopus
Bm F#m
Tearing my shell apart
C#m
Letting the sea get in
A
You make my insides outside
Bridge:
A B A B
And far above me I can see the world
A B A B
Receding slowly out of view
A B A B
The sinking feeling that my worst mistake
A B A
Was all the time I spent with you
Verse 3:
N.C.
You said you're sorry, you said you'd try
But you never did, I guess we're done
Now bits of pieces of me float by
And I die in front of everyone
And you're already gone
Halfway to wherever you sleep
And you make me wish I never met you
Chorus:
Esus E Esus E
Octopus
Esus E Esus E
Some kind of octopus
Bm F#m
Tearing my shell apart
C#m
Letting the sea get in
A
You make my insides outside
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Octopus/Tabs
Fear not, though! It falls under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported
license! Yay! Yay? Yes, yay! As long as credit is given and this is not used for commercial
purposes, you can use it. Which I did. Hurray.
Transcribed by Khavall.
Intro: A (A) (A) E
Verse 1:
C#m A
I still remember the words you said
F#m B G#
They were hard enough to leave a mark
C#m A
And now they echo inside my head
F#m B G#
As I spiral down into the dark
A E
I windmill upside down
F#m C#m B
Knowing you'll come at me again
A F#m
And I feel your shadow pass above me
Chorus:
Esus E Esus E
Octopus
Esus E Esus E
Some kind of octopus
Bm F#m
Tearing my shell apart
C#m
Letting the sea get in
A E
You make my insides outside
Verse 2:
C#m A
I don't think I ever saw you blink
F#m B G#
You were so controlled that no one knew
C#m A
And by the time we all stopped to think
F#m B G#
We were already too close to you
A E
Now you keep coming by
F#m C#m B
Telling me it's not what I think
A F#m
But I know a murder when I see one
Chorus:
Esus E Esus E
Octopus
Esus E Esus E
Some kind of octopus
Bm F#m
Tearing my shell apart
C#m
Letting the sea get in
A
You make my insides outside
Bridge:
A B A B
And far above me I can see the world
A B A B
Receding slowly out of view
A B A B
The sinking feeling that my worst mistake
A B A
Was all the time I spent with you
Verse 3:
N.C.
You said you're sorry, you said you'd try
But you never did, I guess we're done
Now bits of pieces of me float by
And I die in front of everyone
And you're already gone
Halfway to wherever you sleep
And you make me wish I never met you
Chorus:
Esus E Esus E
Octopus
Esus E Esus E
Some kind of octopus
Bm F#m
Tearing my shell apart
C#m
Letting the sea get in
A
You make my insides outside
