Whats Goin On chords by Zebrahead

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Verse 1:

Just another day
Bm           D
Seems like everybody's (got a problem)
G
No one knows how
    D
But (we all want to solve 'em)
Bm
You could give a (dime)
    D
Give a (hand)

Or give a (shit)
  G               D
Or you could look away and (never deal with it)

Bm
For example
          D
This girl is pretty fly for a white gal
G              D
All the guys want her though she's a juvenile
   Bm          D
She's really kinda sad and just don't care
      G             D
'Cause the only one she wants is her best friend Claire

Bm
What's going on?
D
What's going on?
     Bm
Ready or not (not)
  D         Bm      D          Bm
The world moves on and on and on and on and on and on and on
  D
Yo, what's going on?

Pre-Chorus:

C        G
There's nothing much to me
  D
I'm simple like you are, ordinary (simple like you are)
C    G
My tired eyes can see
   A
That time may fly
      A
And what's left is

Meant to be

Chorus:

D      G
I'm looking out
          Bm
And you're looking in
           G
It's taken more than time
  F#m    G
To erase the stain
     A       D
And it's never been the same

Verse 2:

Bm
Any city
 D         G
A girl turns 17, she goes to a party
D           Bm
She and her girls are drinking bacardi
D                 G
Ever since she walked through the door
            D           Bm
All the guys have been flexing and tryin' to score
         D
But she's a good girl
         G
So she won't have none of that
         D
She takes another sip
      Bm             D         G
But has no clue of the spike from the G to the H to the B
          D
She wakes up on the morning
             Bm
Bruised and raped in the street

Bm
What's going on?
D
What's going on?
     Bm
Ready or not (not)
  D         Bm      D       Bm
The world moves on and on and on and on and on and on
  D
Yo, what's going on?

Pre-Chorus:

C        G
There's nothing much to me
  D
I'm simple like you are, ordinary (simple like you are)
C    G
My tired eyes can see
   A
That time may fly
      A
And what's left is

Meant to be

Chorus:

D      G
I'm looking out
          Bm
And you're looking in
           G
It's taken more than time
  F#m    G
To erase the stain
     A       D
And it's never been the same

Verse 3:

 Bm
(In a small town)
D
A kid that you know goes to school
G             D
He's really kinda shy and not that cool
Bm               D
He knows what it's like to look in from the outside
G        D
Inside, he wants someone to confide
Bm              D
Everyone's busy and no one's got the time
  G
He takes his dad's gun and says
D
"This is how I'll shine"
Bm
Boom-boom-boom
    D
And the kids fall down
    G
On the ground
  D
Dumbfound (dumbfound)

Bm
What's going on?
D
What's going on?
     Bm
Ready or not (not)
  D         Bm       D       Bm
The world moves on and on and on (and on and on and on...)
  D
Yo, what's going on?

Pre-Chorus:

C        G
There's nothing much to me
  D
I'm simple like you are, ordinary (simple like you are)
C    G
My tired eyes can see
   A
That time may fly
      A
And what's left is

Meant to be

Chorus:

D      G
I'm looking out
          Bm
And you're looking in
           G
It's taken more than time
  F#m    G
To erase the stain
     A
And it's never been the same

D      G
I'm looking out
          Bm
And you're looking in
           G
It's taken more than time
  F#m    G
To erase the stain
     A
And it's never been the same

Bm
(According to the Department of Justice, one out of five American woman are victims of rape or sexual
assault during their lifetime)
D
(25% of women have reported that they have been assaulted or raped by a current or former partner)
G
(25% of students have been victims of a violent crime that occurred in and around this school)
D
(800,000 six to twelve grade students carried a gun in school last year)

(What's goin' on, goin' on, goin' on?...)