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What You Get
By: They Might Be Giants
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Year: 2026

             Dm 
Is it just a bit?
                     G
Should you commit to it?
                      Bb
Is there something to get?
                     C
Are you overthinking it?

F    Bb        Am
Half-awake the mistake 
      Db Eb    Ab    Eb
Is in making a meant thing
Db         Eb          Ab       Eb
Out of the meaningless dreaming
Db   C7            F      Bb F Bb
Half-forgotten and fading

F     Bb       Am
Fully lost albatross 
       Db   Eb      Ab      Eb
In the moss-covered inkling
Db          C7     F      Bb F
Mindfulship slowly sinking

                   Dm    G
This is what there is to see
Bb   Bb Bb  C  C  F
Bask in the mystery
                    Dm    G
This is where there is to go
Bb   Bb   Bb     C  C  F
Know that you'll never know

                 Dm
This is what you get
                 G
Whatever good it is
                 Bb
The only good in it's
                 Bb      C
Whatever you can make of it

F   Bb             Am
Xylophones made of bones
         Db     Eb     Ab       Eb
That you loaned from a boneyard
Db       Eb         Ab       Eb
Play you out with a Galliard
Db      C7           F        Bb F Bb
Whistle along by the boneyard

F      Bb          Am
In the end, in the sand
    Db     Eb     Ab          Eb
The remains under gravestones
Db         C7           F      Bb   F
Inside you hide all the same bones

                   Dm    G
This is what there is to see
Bb   Bb Bb  C  C  F
Bask in the mystery
                    Dm    G
This is where there is to go
Bb   Bb   Bb     C  C  F
Know that you'll never know
             
             Db
Does it even count
   Gb      Db
If someone found
   Ab          Db        Gb    Db    Ab     
An answer when it's been lost again?
Db      Gb      Db    Ab      Gm7
So much hanging on in audible words
             Bb      C
Blowing in a distant wind

F    Bb          Am
Make yourself at home
     Db  Eb     Ab
Make hay in the sun
     Eb     Db       Eb    Ab
Make out in shadowed halls
     Eb      Db            
Make out the vague things 
C7           F      Bb   F Bb
Drawn on the cave walls

F   Bb             Am
Xylophones made of bones
         Db     Eb     Ab       Eb
That you loaned from a boneyard
Db       C7         F       Bb F
Play you out with a Galliard

                   Dm    G
This is what there is to see
Bb   Bb Bb  C  C  F
Bask in the mystery
                    Dm    G
This is where there is to go
Bb   Bb   Bb     C  C  F
Know that you'll never know

                   Dm    G
This is what there is to see
Bb   Bb Bb  C  C  F
Bask in the mystery
                    Dm    G
This is where there is to go
Bb   Bb   Bb     C  C  F
Know that you'll never know