Important (The Way I Wrote It)

Intro: Eb Eb

Verse 1:
Eb                                       Ab
I’m pretty sure that life doesn’t have a meaning
    Cm                                         Bb
And if there’s a god then he doesn’t look like me
    Eb                                     Ab
And I’m just a member of the current apex species
    Cm                                         Bb
But there will be another when the humans go extinct

Verse 2:
           Eb
We’ve only been around two hundred thousand years
   Ab
Of thirteen and a half billion years
    Cm
How can we think the pinnacle is here?
Bb
 Isn’t that arrogant?
          Eb
There’s a couple hundred billion trillion suns
    Ab
And we act like it all was made for us
      Cm                                   Bb
There ain’t no way that we’re the only ones

Chorus:
          Ab           Bb          Eb
I’m not important, and neither are you
         Ab          Bb       Cm
So let’s do whatever we wanna do
            Ab          Bb
Bask in our cosmic insignificance
     Bdim               Cm
Soak up this blip we’re livin’ in
       Ab
‘Cause nothing matters anyway
Bb          (nc)
 Isn’t that great?

Verse 3:
       Eb                                  Ab
‘Cause humans aren’t really gonna kill the planet (yay!)
      Cm                                 Bb
We’ll just make the planet unlivable for us (aww…)
    Eb
But earth will keep right on spinning
    Ab
Way long after we ain’t in it
    Cm
And life will keep right on livin’
         Bb
‘Til the sun explodes and oh

Chorus:
          Ab           Bb          Eb
I’m not important, and neither are you
         Ab          Bb       Cm
So let’s do whatever we wanna do
            Ab          Bb
Bask in our cosmic insignificance
     Bdim               Cm
Soak up this blip we’re livin’ in
       Ab
‘Cause nothing matters anyway
Bb
 Isn’t that great?

Solo:
   Ab       Bb        Eb       Eb
   Ab       Bb        Cm       Cm

Bridge:
  Ab                 Bb
I don’t mean to be a downer
  Eb                    Eb
I don’t even think it’s sad
    Ab
The universe is gigantic
    Bb
And it’s kinda beautiful that

Chorus:
          Ab           Bb          Eb
I’m not important, and neither are you
         Ab          Bb       Cm
So let’s do whatever we wanna do
            Ab          Bb
Bask in our cosmic insignificance
     Bdim               Cm
Soak up this blip we’re livin’ in
       Ab
‘Cause nothing matters anyway
Bb          (nc)
 Isn’t that great?
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