What You Will chords by Matt Pless

Intro: C C/B Am F G

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

Interlude: (C) G C

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

Interlude: (C) G C

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

Interlude: (C) G C

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

Outro
(C) G C