Falling Up chords by Will Wood

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: G+G

♫ Intro:

    G+G
Your stratospheric fear of catastrophe’s near
                                  C majorC
Fast, it’s here, atmosphere past your ears, fall but you’ll never land
          D MajorD   Dsus4Dsus4
Second star to the right…


♫ Verse :
G+G                    E minorEm
I’m gripping the grass and pulling up daisies
G+G                     E minorEm
Thank matter for mass and the comfort of gravity
G+G                       E minorEm
Airplane eclipses over spirals of math - would or could the impact kill me?
C majorC      D MajorD
Yes, yes, yes. No, no, no, no, no.

G+G                       E minorEm
It’s just high-noon moon saying “shoot for the stars”
G+G                E minorEm
“Be the next big constellation connecting the dots between your parts”

♫ Chorus:
C majorC            G+G
Dandelion seeds yet to ride on the breeze
      C majorC                G+G
You make a wish upon the dead but turn and call it a weed
C majorC       G+G      D MajorD  D7D7
Only plastic flowers never die


♫ Verse :
G+G                      E minorEm
With the bones of a crow and ambitions of candle wax
G+G                 E minorEm
What do you know of control? The wind is simply at your back
G+G                            E minorEm
It really seems pollen’s more clever than bees, so you cue the final words of Leary and cry:
C majorC        D MajorD
Why, why, why? Why not? Why not? Why not?

G+G                      E minorEm
I’d rather be a hot-air Hindenburg than an elephant tied right down to its stake
G+G                    E minorEm
Cut ties, shed the dead weight
I ain’t saying it’s fate but there are no mistakes

♫ Chorus:
C majorC            G+G
Dandelion seeds yet to ride on the breeze
      C majorC                G+G
You make a wish upon the dead but turn and call it a weed
C majorC       G+G      D MajorD
Only plastic flowers never die
        C majorC        G+G   C majorC             G+G
Well
I cry on skies of blue linoleum. Clouds o’ spilt milk, but am I the cup
C majorC        D MajorD        C majorC G+G
Here comes the sun, am I falling up?
    C majorC G+G C majorC       D MajorD        C majorC G+G
Falling up, here comes the sun, am I falling up?

♫ Bridge:
 E minorEm
Disney-Pixar Ludovico
Shirley Temple maraschino
 G+G
Hotel rooms of Motley Crüe
Broadway producer improv troupes
 E minorEm
Ray-Bans in your living room, eyeline hurts to be in view like
 G+G
Stage fright only when it’s karaoke night with friends leave early
 E minorEm                             G+G
Did I earn this stupid hat, is now really a good time for a new tattoo?
    E minorEm                 G+G
Oh, is now really a good time for a new tattoo?

G+G          E minorEm
The larger they are, the harder they tend to fall
G+G                    C majorC         D MajorD
Much larger than life ‘cause from such height life looks awful small

   C majorC         G+G   C majorC            G+G
And dandelions grow in dirt, magic mushrooms grow in piles of bullshit
C majorC        G+G         D MajorD
I grew up in suburbia. Love us or hate us, pick us, you’re killing us

♫ Chorus:
C majorC            G+G
Dandelion seeds yet to ride on the breeze
      E MajorE                A minorAm
You make a wish upon the dead but turn and call it a weed
C majorC       G+G      D MajorD
Only plastic flowers never die
        C majorC        G+G   C majorC              G+G
Well
I cry on skies of blue linoleum. Clouds o’ spilt milk, but am I the cup
C majorC        D MajorD        C majorC G+G
Here comes the sun am I falling up
    C majorC G+G C majorC       D MajorD        C majorC G+G
Falling up, here comes the sun, am I falling up?
    C majorC G+G C majorC       D MajorD        C majorC G+G
Falling up, here comes the sun, am I falling up?

♫ Outro:
 E minorEm                             G+G
Did I earn this stupid hat, is now really a good time for a new tattoo?
    E minorEm                 G+G
Oh, is now really a good time for a new tattoo?
G+G
Your stratospheric fear of catastrophe’s near
                                  C majorC
Fast, it’s here, atmosphere past your ears, fall but you’ll never land
          D MajorD                G+G
Second star to the right, and straight on ‘till you die.