LYRICS - Is It Someone Else?

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by Emma Johnson

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LYRICS:

When writing is your best friend

and the days seem to fly by

seasons change and come back around

you’re still asking why

to the same questions/

that don’t have answers

things change but it’s still the same

you go to parties

and realize you don’t know anyone/

as well anymore

why is it that I came?

Another day

of random happenings

I try to make it fit together

in a log-i-cal way

but more often than not

I just give up

I may not be logical

but I’ll be o.k.

Things are moving around me

But every year I think the same way

People are changing around me

You’re not the same person I knew yesterday

Events are taking place inside me

I can hear my own voice

unrecognizable to me --

I forget that I control my actions

but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

In sixth grade I was the same person

my thoughts mature

for my time

Now maybe

my peers will pass me

I’ll be adolescent forever

until I die.

Sometimes I wish I could watch

the future

fast-forwarding through

the X-rated parts

my life is too adult for me

I’m too immature to be my-self.

Every event foreshadows

every foreshadowing event to come

everything is obvious/

but we don’t see it -- we’re all too dumb

Things are moving around me

But every year I think the same way

People are changing around me

You’re not the same person I knew yesterday

Events are taking place inside me

I can hear my own voice

unrecognizable to me --

I forget that I control my actions

but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

I wonder if I know you

probably not because you don’t know yourself

have I ever known you?

the person you were was just leading to

something else

The people of the past are forgotten

because they cease to exist an-y more

you deny you were once someone else

you’re embarrassed because it’s not you an-y more.

But it is still with you

Somewhere in the back of your mind

Someday you’ll retrieve it

but that day will be another time.

Everybody/ in this town

has known everybody/ at one time

now you’re a stran-/ ger and i’m

everybody in this town

Things are moving around me

But every year I think the same way

People are changing around me

You’re not the same person I knew yesterday

Events are taking place inside me

I can hear my own voice

unrecognizable to me --

I forget that I control my actions

but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

Things are moving around me

But every year I think the same way

People are changing around me

You’re not the same person I knew yesterday

Events are taking place inside me

I can hear my own voice

unrecognizable to me --

I forget that I control my actions

but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

     IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

     IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?

LYRICS W/ CHORDS:

processor settings: 38A, 46B, 21B, (17B)

[B G B D—Bs are power chords, G and D are normal chords]

When writing is your best friend

and the days seem to fly by

seasons change and come back around

you’re still asking why

to the same questions/

that don’t have answers

things change but it’s still the same

you go to parties

and realize you don’t know anyone/

as well anymore

why is it that I came?

Another day

of random happenings

I try to make it fit together

in a log-i-cal way

but more often than not

I just give up

I may not be logical

but I’ll be o.k.

[chorus:]

[B F# G D—play one chord progression and then start singing]

Things are moving around me

But every year I think the same way

People are changing around me

You’re not the same person I knew yesterday

Events are taking place inside me

I can hear my own voice

unrecognizable to me--

I forget that I control my actions

but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!? [1][D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

[slight pause]

[B G B D—Bs are power chords, G and D are normal chords]

In sixth grade I was the same person

my thoughts mature

for my time

Now maybe

my peers will pass me

I’ll be adolescent forever

until I die.

Sometimes I wish I could watch

the future

fast-forwarding through

the X-rated parts

my life is too adult for me

I’m too immature to be my-self.

Every event foreshadows

every foreshadowing event to come

[raise voice:]

everything is obvious/

but we don’t see it-- we’re [sing discordant harmony: F]all too dumb

[sing “dumb” over B F# G D, repeat chord progression, & then start chorus]

[chorus:]

[B F# G D—play one chord progression and then start singing]

Things are moving around me

But every year I think the same way

People are changing around me

You’re not the same person I knew yesterday

Events are taking place inside me

I can hear my own voice

unrecognizable to me--

I forget that I control my actions

but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!? [2][D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

[slight pause]

[B G B D—Bs are power chords, G and D are normal chords]

I wonder if I know you

probably not because you don’t know yourself

have I ever known you?

the person you were was just leading to

something else

The people of the past are forgotten

because they cease to exist an-y more

you deny you were once someone else

you’re embarrassed because it’s not you an-y more.

But it is still with you

Somewhere in the back of your mind

[raise voice:]

Someday you’ll retrieve it

but that day will be an-[sing discordant harmony: F]other time.

[sing “time” over B F# G D, repeat chord progression, & then start chorus]

[C G G# D#]

[repeat 3Xs, once spoken & then twice singing]

Everybody/ in this town

has known everybody/ at one time

now you’re a stran-/ ger and i’m

everybody in this town

[cymbols]

[transition chords—B D6 Em F#7 G]

[let G ring out]

[slight pause]

[chorus:]

[play very slowly]

[B F# G D—play one chord progression and then start singing]

[“*” indicates slow part Beth sings as a countermelody harmony]

*Things are moving around me

But every year I think the same way

*People are changing around me

You’re not the same person I knew yesterday

Events are taking place inside me

I can hear my own voice

*unrecognizable to me--

I forget that I control my actions

but do I really, or IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!? [3][D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

[chorus:]

[play rapidly]

[B F# G D—play one chord progression and then start singing]

Things are moving around me

But every year I think the same way

People are changing around me

You’re not the same person I knew yesterday

Events are taking place inside me

I can hear my own voice

unrecognizable to me--

I forget that I control my actions

but do I really, or [4]IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!? [5][D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

                             IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

     IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

     IS IT SOMEONE ELSE!?   [D A B G]

 [let B ring out]

optional segue to another/next song: TAB for B string: [8,10,8,7,8,0,0]repeat

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[1] Start chord progression while singing “ELSE”

[2] Start chord progression while singing “ELSE”

[3] Start chord progression while singing “ELSE”

[4] punctuate each word: is it some- one ELSE, sing “ELSE” with a biting pronounciation

[5] Start chord progression while singing “ELSE”