What You Will chords by Matt Pless

Chords with lyrics

Intro: C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm FF G+G

Verse 1:
 C majorC
I had a friend who had to vent
   C/BC/B
On a time that left him quite verklempt
A minorAm
I asked exactly what he meant
  FF       G+G
And helplessly he said:
 C majorC
"I'm just a boy with a broken dream
  C/BC/B
And a chemical dependency
    A minorAm
That's eating up what's left of me
   FF       G+G
While they say plan ahead"
  A minorAm        C/BC/B
He asked his father "what's the point?
  FF        G+G
The future ain't too bright."
   A minorAm         C/BC/B
Then dad replied for the first time:
  FF         G+G
"I think you might be right"
      C majorC        G+G
Cause your generation's on medication
C majorC     G+G
Blinded by inebriation
C majorC        G+G
Wallowing in procrastination
C majorC        G+G
Frankly bored of education
C majorC        G+G
Live in fear of foreign nations
C majorC     G+G
Nuclear annihilation
C majorC        G+G
Searching for an explanation
C majorC        G+G      FF        G+G
While I have the realization that it's all my fault
      C majorC
And such is life

Interlude: (C majorC) G+G C majorC

Verse 2:
 C majorC
I held a girl for a bit of a while
   C/BC/B
In an age where a smile was out of style
  A minorAm
She made denial seem worth while
 FF        G+G
I never quite knew how
  C majorC
She had a voice and a wish for fame
  C/BC/B
And claimed the world would know here name
 A minorAm
I told her I once felt the same
  FF        G+G
But look where I am now
  A minorAm         C/BC/B
So darling, keep your head on straight
  FF      G+G
The vision won't pan out
   A minorAm      C/BC/B
She'd say "I always get my way and
FF      G+G
You can just get out!"
    C majorC            G+G
So she worked real hard and she danced away
  C majorC           G+G
But she put a play for her mirror all day
    C majorC         G+G
And the years went by, she turned 28
C majorC          G+G
Over the hill and a little too late
   C majorC       G+G
With deteriorating mental health
  C majorC             G+G
The president's dead cause she proved herself
  C majorC        G+G
And though you never heard her sing
   C majorC        G+G
She's on magazines and TV screens
     C majorC          G+G
While she sits and smiles in a prison cell
     C majorC          G+G
Where she hung herself with a studded belt
  FF        G+G
She went out like a star
      C majorC
And such is life

Interlude: (C majorC) G+G C majorC

Verse 3:
 C majorC
I knew a fella so tried and true
    C/BC/B
He's a lot like me and a bit like you
  A minorAm
Who struggled through what bound him to
 FF       G+G
A augmentedA social web of lies
  C majorC
He saw the things he chose to see
 C/BC/B
Inside a world of fantasy
  A minorAm
And never fit too comfortably
  FF     G+G
In anybody's eyes
   A minorAm       C/BC/B
But, when the system pulled his card
  FF           G+G
And said, "You turned out right"
  A minorAm        C/BC/B
We fed you fear for 18 years
FF        G+G
Preparing for a fight
  C majorC        G+G      C majorC        G+G
So, son get off that unicorn and come try on this uniform
   C majorC             G+G
Cause these are the colors that never run:
C majorC            G+G
Red, white, blue, and a silver gun
     C majorC           G+G        C majorC         G+G
Though he never laid a finger on anyone, he just sang his songs and had his fun
    C majorC       G+G
On the battlefield he met his end
    C majorC        G+G
When he took a bullet to save his friend
  C majorC        G+G
His mom got word the other day
   C majorC         G+G
In a letter that read, "Thanks anyway"
  FF         G+G         C majorC
But that's how freedom rings. And such is life

Interlude: (C majorC) G+G C majorC

  C majorC
My thought on everybody else
   C/BC/B
Would lead me back to view myself
  A minorAm
And take the sorrow that I felt
  FF        G+G
To build a case-in-point
  C majorC
My home sweet home of lemon drops
   C/BC/B
Where dinner's served on counter tops
  A minorAm
The healthy family unit stops
   FF    G+G
When parents disappoint
  A minorAm          C/BC/B      FF     G+G
The stranger's hand that feeds you is a jackal in disguise
   A minorAm       C/BC/B     FF     G+G
That sends us poison arrows from apocalyptic skies
     C majorC           G+G
There's a fallout child with an empty face
    C majorC         G+G
Who'll finish last in the human race
   C majorC            G+G
In a vegetative state at his parents' place
  C majorC            G+G
An ashamed disgraced who's afraid to age
  C majorC        G+G
His rage enslaves a caged white dove
   C majorC          G+G
Who's raised on drugs and selfish love
  C majorC      G+G        C majorC        G+G
The product of a time defined by me, myself, and I combined
    C majorC         G+G
With a slow decline on a string of pills
     C majorC             G+G
While the world keeps turning, we're standing still
  FF       G+G
And growing up all wrong
  FF         G+G
The sandbox lines are drawn
  FF         G+G
The backward beat goes on
      C majorC
And such is life

Outro
(C majorC) G+G C majorC