I Me Myself - Will Wood

Tuning: G C E A, G C E A

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Transcribed by ear from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVlELTHfrMs
I believe he may have been playing on a baritone uke or perhaps a drop G uke, but this was learned on a
standard uke.
Listen to video for strumming pattern variations

[Intro]
        
        
      
(vocalizing)
      
      
          
Big girls don'

     
t cry

[Verse 1]

            
I’ve been feel

             
ing lightheade

             
d since I lost

              
 enough weight

        
 to fit back i

n my skin
            
Flower petals 

             
and feathers t

              
ether me to th

             
e ground (poun

      
d for pound)
            
Take my tea wi

             
th formaldehyd

             
e for my femin

              
ine side since

     
 the day that 

I died
            
While I whittl

             
e my bones unt

              
il I’m brittle

       
, am I pretty 

now?
             
For some reaso

             
n I find mysel

         
f lost in what

    
 you think of 

me
             
And too confus

             
ed to choose w

               
ho I should be

N.C
And now you’ve got me thinking

[Chorus]
             
I wish I could

      
 be a girl, an

d that way
             
You'd wish I c

             
ould be your g

           
irlfriend, boy

friend
           
Am I pretty en

             
ough to lie to

        
? O-wa-ohh
             
I wish I could

      
 be a girl, an

d that way
             
You'd wish I c

             
ould be your g

            
irlfriend, boy


friend
             
Just little ol

            
d me in a big 

             
big world, O-w

   
a-ohh
       
Ah-a-a-a-a-a-a

h
             
Little old me 

    
in a big world
       
I-I-I-I-I
N.C
I wish...

[Instrumental]
        

[Verse 2]
            
I’ve been feel

             
ing lightheart

             
ed since I gai

              
ned enough wei

            
ght back to c-

c-c-c-cover my

 bones
            
I get dressed 

             
up in shadows 

             
one leg at a t

              
ime – we’re so

 
 alike
            
But if the sho

              
e fits, then I

 
 won’t try it 

on
             
You’ll be walk

              
ing out early,

         
 but the show 

must go on
      
No, I know tha

t I’m wrong
      
But I love how

 you’re on my 

side
             
It’s been a po

              
int of content

             
ion between my

              
self and this 

        
body that they

        
 stuck me in
            
The privilege 

             
of being born 

        
to be a man

N.C
And now you got me thinking

[Chorus]
             
I wish I could

      
 be a girl, an

d that way
             
You'd wish I c

             
ould be your g

           
irlfriend, boy

friend
           
Am I pretty en

             
ough to lie to

        
? O-wa-ohh
             
I wish I could

      
 be a girl, an

d that way
             
You'd wish I c

             
ould be your g

            
irlfriend, boy


friend
             
Just little ol

            
d me in a big 

             
big world, O-w

   
a-ohh
       
Ah-a-a-a-a-a-a

h
             
Little old me 

    
in a big world
       
I-I-I-I-I
N.C
I wish...

[Instrumental]
        
           

[Bridge]
            
Lately I've be

              
en wishing I w

              
ere 5 foot 5 w

         
eighing 99, we

aring thigh hi

ghs, hi guys
            
I'll be your p

              
rosthetic meet

              
 your anesthet

       
ic criteria
              
Oh and could y

   
ou please obje

ctify me?
    
I'm-a just a h

unk a hunk of 

burning self-l

oathing
            
My evidence, m

           
y witness, my 

evidence, my w

itness

My evidence, m

y witness
N.C
(Spoken) What is it they used to say on Tumblr? What is it they used to say? Something like
"my pronouns are your business shitlord"?
              
And now you're

            
 eating your p

              
rosthetic meat

              
 your anesthet

    
ic criteria, p

athetic seeing

 you become ac

etic
            
Say my name li

              
ke a slur but 

              
I've been call

              
ed worse and I

   
 heard it all 

before, no thi

s isn't my fir

st
curse word
            
Let me be the 

              
void you fill 

     
with taxidermy

 fingerprints 

taxonomize our

 differences
            
I am quantum p

           
hysics, my wit

ness brings me

 into existenc

e

N.C
Cause'

[Chorus]
             
I wish I could

      
 be a girl, an

d that way
             
You'd wish I c

             
ould be your g

           
irlfriend, boy

friend
           
Am I pretty en

        
ough to love b

ack?
        
No, not yet
             
I wish I could

            
 be a girl, an

              
d really I'd p

   
refer it if yo

u would use
    
I/Me/Myself
           
Am I pretty en

              
ough? Am I pre

             
tty enough to 

        
fucking die-i-

i-i?
       
Ah-a-a-a-a-a-a

h
             
Little old me 

    
in a big world
       
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-

I
             
Well I would g

         
ive you my who

   
le wo-o-o-orld
          
Oh-o-o-o-o-o-o

-o-oh
             
Little old me 

    
in a big world
       
I-I-I-I-I
N.C
I wish...

[Instrumental]
      
      
      
      
      
      

[Outro]
             
All identities

     
 are equally i

nvalid
             
Don't you thin

              
k that there's

              
 a chance that

 
 you could liv

e without it?
             
All identities

     
 are equally i

nvalid
             
Don't you thin

              
k that there's

              
 a chance that

 
 you could liv

e without it?
             
All identities

     
 are equally i

nvalid
             
Don't you thin

              
k that there's

              
 a chance that

 
 you could liv

e without it?
             
All identities

     
 are equally i

nvalid
              
(Spoken) Good 

             
evening office

 
r, we're just 

playing music,

 nobodies maki

ng any money..

.

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