m: "Philip A. Metzler" 
Subject: c/cole_paula/me.crd
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 18:25:59 -0400

                                                     Me - Paula Cole
                                            from the album "This Fire"
                                                    transcribed by Phil Metzler

intro:  Esus2  Asus2

Esus2
i am not the person who is singing
Asus2
i am the silent one inside
Esus2
i am not the one who laughs at people's jokes
Asus2
i just pacify their egos
Esus2
i am not my house or my car or my songs
Asus2
they are only just stops along my way
Esus2
i am like the winter.  i'm a dark cold female with a
Asus2
golden ring of wisdom in my cave

CHORUS:

             Esus2
and it's me who is my enemy
Asus2
me who beats me up
Esus2
me who makes the monsters
Asus2
me who strips my confidence

interlude:  Esus2  Asus2

(same as verse one)
i am carrying my voice
i am carrying my heart
i am carrying my rhythmn
i am carrying my prayers
but you can't kill my spirit
it's soaring and it's strong
like a mountain
i go on and on
but when my wings are folded
the brightly colored moth
blends into the dirt into the ground

chorus

            Esus2
and it's me who's too weak, and it's me who's too shy
     Asus2
to ask for the thing i love
            Esus2
and it's me who's too weak, and it's me who's too shy
    Asus2
to ask for the thing i love

       Esus2
but i love, but i love,
       Asus2
but i love, but i love,

        Esus2
i am walking on the bridge. i am over the water
            Asus2
and i'm scared as hell
but i know there's something better
         Esus2
yes i know there's something
                     Asus2
yes i know, i know, yes i know

but it's me
and it's me
but it's me (4 times)

Esus2: 022102
Asus2: x02420