Half-decade Hangover chords by Will Wood

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G+G

♫ Intro:

C7C7 D7D7 G+G


♫ Verse :
E minorEm      A7A7
Wonder how I didn’t die
 C majorC       C minorCm       G+G       D MajorD    B7B7   E minorEm
This is not my life. I’m no survivor
I only happened to survive.
        A7A7
Wonder how I sleep at night
    C majorC
Well I count pink elephants, blessings and skeletons
D7D7
Down the days I have left, with one eye open
 G+G                G7G7
That was me screaming “bitch I am reality”
            C majorC         A7A7
Then stumbling off to lose myself in a brown paper bag, ‘cause me and
 G+G             B7B7        E minorEm     EmMaj7Emmaj7      E minor 7Em7      Em6Em6
Sweet Evan Williams have a date down on Avenue A augmentedA staving shakes scraping change till daybreak
      A7A7
Turns out anyone can eat out the trash
     D MajorD
Then wake up on the freeway mid-crash

♫ Chorus:
    G+G
I was drunk
        D MajorD
When I made my bed
       D7D7
Now with the half-decade hangover
    C majorC   G+G C7C7
I lay down in it
 D7D7     G+G
What have I done?
           D MajorD
Don’t know what I’ve said?
      D7D7
It’s a half-decade hungover
    B7B7        E minorEm
Either this, in jail or dead
    C majorC
It’s a half-decade hungover
    C minorCm         G+G
Jesus Christ, my aching head

♫ Verse :
E minorEm          A7A7
Waste not, want not borrowed time
C majorC         C minorCm
Lender knows I’ve tried
      G+G          D MajorD    B7B7
To make it right, give back my life and if not
 E minorEm
Take it ‘cause lately I’ve been thinking maybe I could
      A7A7
Take it or leave it if I can’t at least break even then I’m leaving when
    C majorC
I been feelin’ this awful since I hit bottom then
 D7D7
said “hand me my shovel, man
I’m going in!”
   G+G              G7G7
Oh brother -man, you call that recovered?
       C majorC          A7A7
Tripped on a couple steps, and collapsed on the stairs
     G+G               B7B7
Broke my neck on the backs of those who I’ve hurt and scared
       E minorEm      EmMaj7Emmaj7         E minor 7Em7     Em6Em6
Like it’s a good thing you said “you’ve got your whole life ahead”
      A7A7
Oh great, another half a century to live to regret
      D7D7
I’d rather be anybody else instead

♫ Chorus:
        G+G
‘Cause I was drunk
        D MajorD
When I made my bed
       D7D7
Now with the half-decade hangover
    C majorC   G+G C7C7
I lay down in it
 D7D7     G+G
What have I done?
           D MajorD
Don’t know what I’ve said?
      D7D7
It’s a half-decade hungover
    B7B7        E minorEm
Either this, in jail or dead
    C majorC
It’s a half-decade hungover
    C minorCm         G+G
Jesus Christ, my aching head

♫ Bridge:

E minorEm C7C7 C majorC C minorCm G+G BB E minorEm A7A7 C majorC D MajorD

 G+G                  G7G7
Sober, but still so much still hangs over.
             C majorC            C7C7
Please believe me when I say I’ve poured my whole past down the drain
     D7D7           B7B7
Say that a second chance is a chance I can take
    E minorEm    EmMaj7Emmaj7      E minor 7Em7     Em6Em6
But I can’t make amends for things I don’t remember
       A7A7          B7B7
I can only say “I’m sorry” and occasionally pray
       E minorEm      EmMaj7Emmaj7 E minor 7Em7       Em6Em6
Guess you’ll just have to take my word that I’ve changed
   D7D7              D MajorD
After one thousand eight hundred twenty five days

♫ Chorus:
    G+G
I was drunk
        D MajorD
When I made my bed
       D7D7
Now with the half-decade hangover
    C majorC   G+G C7C7
I lay down in it
 D7D7     G+G
What have I done?
           D MajorD
Don’t know what I’ve said?
      D7D7
It’s a half-decade hungover
    B7B7    E minorEm
Hand me my ibuprofen
    C majorC
It’s a half-decade hungover
    C minorCm         G+G
Jesus Christ, my aching head