California chords by Panic! At The Disco

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C

(Uh, uh, eh, uh)

Intro:

e|--------------------|--------------------|
B|--------------------|--------------------|
G|--------------------|--------------------|
D|--------------------|---------------7-5--|
A|--3-5-7----5-7-9-7--|--3-5-7-5--5-7------|
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Verse 1:
C          G            D         Em
Your daddy bought you a new black Jetta
C        G                 D        Em
A little something else to curb the pain
C       G          D        Em
Waiting on a call, text, or whatever
F                             C
Your life's a storm cloud without any rain

Pre-Chorus:
C           G            D             Em
Filled your life full of boys that are broken
C   G             D         Em
Validation needed more than you
C               G            D                  Em
Scratching your arm with the blade while you're smoking
F                  C
I wanna cover you


Chorus:
        C             G                  D           Em
Said "I love you
California, but you're bringing me down"
    C                G                   D      Em
You love me then you hate me then you're never around
  C       G             D          Em
A natural disaster in a fabricated town
  C                                D
I love you
California, but you're
                   C
You're bringing me down
G     D     Em    C     G     D    Em
Down, down, down, down, down, down


Verse 2:
C        G             D                Em
A bitter pill that you never learned to swallow
C       G                D         Em
A sight unseen from your new third eye
C           G             D           Em
Your little tricks, never got them to follow
F                         C
It's not enough to be the pitiful type


Pre-Chorus:
C            G        D            Em
So take your medicine, your freak adrenaline
C           G                D                    Em
The kind of problems you had always dreamed you'd settle in
C           G             D               Em
Stop making promises, you don't know what honest is
F                  C
I wanna cover you


Chorus:
        C             G                  D           Em
Said "I love you
California, but you're bringing me down"
    C                G                   D      Em
You love me then you hate me then you're never around
  C       G             D          Em
A natural disaster in a fabricated town
  C                                D
I love you
California, but you're
                       Eb  Bb F Gm
You're bringing me down


Bridge:
Eb Bb F Gm
Eb Bb F Gm
Ab Eb


Chorus:
        Eb            Bb                 F           Gm
Said "I love you
California, but you're bringing me down"
    Eb               Bb                  F      Gm
You love me then you hate me then you're never around
  Eb      Bb            F          Gm
A natural disaster in a fabricated town
  Eb                                F
I love you
California, but you're
                   Eb
You're bringing me down
Bb    F     Gm    Eb    Bb
Down, down, down, down, down
       F           Bb
You're bringing me down