Wheel Well chords by Bad Books

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Capo on first fret, or if you are dropped half a step down, put the capo on your second fret.

Verse 1:
FF        C majorC   G+G          FF
The birds on my stoop, they don't know the words
FF         C majorC   G+G      FF
For the pain in my tooth, or for other birds
FF          C majorC    G+G      C majorC G+G
The clouds they cut through on my way to work
FF     G+G
And I do, what's that worth?

Verse 2:
FF       C majorC    G+G       FF
A augmentedA name for all things, except for the cure
FF          C majorC   G+G          FF
To the sadness that sings, every night at your door
FF    C majorC  G+G    C majorC  G+G  FF
At every door of every restless soul
FF    G+G
It's all we all know


Chorus:
  C majorC     G+G    FF    C majorC
No peace, no calm, no coasting
  FF         G+G        C majorC
No 'There but for the grace of God, go I'
     FF      C majorC       FF        C majorC
We're all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
    FF       G+G     A minorAm
As one goes, so goes everybody else
      FF           C majorC
Around the wheel well, around the wheel well


Verse 3:
FF         C majorC   G+G         FF
If the people you meet, are mostly you in disguise
FF       C majorC   G+G            FF
Want what you want, something good in their lives
FF          C majorC   G+G        C majorC   G+G  FF
Is that a socialist song? An invocation of Christ, I guess
FF       G+G
It's whatever you like

Chorus:
  C majorC     G+G    FF    C majorC
No peace, no calm, no coasting
  FF         G+G        C majorC
No 'There but for the grace of God, go I'
     FF      C majorC       FF        C majorC
We're all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
    FF       G+G     A minorAm
As one goes, so goes everybody else
      FF           C majorC   G+G
Around the wheel well, around the wheel well


Bridge:
FF         FF       C majorC
You left your body fading on your couch
  G+G   C majorC     G+G    FF
And felt I just might make it up
      F/F#    G+G
Before I'm wasting underground


Chorus 2:
C majorC       G+G     FF   C majorC
So grieve your life spent hiding
  FF      G+G       C majorC
The hours no one ever hands it back
      FF       C majorC
What's the use? Who kept score?
     FF         C majorC
Medieval school yard tug of war
  A minorAm       G+G       FF
No architect, we built the cage ourselves


Chorus:
  C majorC     G+G    FF    C majorC
No peace, no calm, no coasting
  FF         G+G        C majorC
No 'There but for the grace of God, go I'
     FF      C majorC       FF        C majorC
We're all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
    FF       G+G     A minorAm
As one goes, so goes everybody else
      FF           C majorC
Around the wheel well, around the wheel well
      FF           C majorC   G+G  FF
Around the wheel well, around the wheel well


Outro:
N.C.
No one's alone or it's the one thing we are
N.C.
Beasts with big brains, computers with hearts
N.C.
Obsessed with control, or frightened and power starved
N.C.
It will get you so far