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What You Will by Matt Pless
What You Will
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 5th fret
[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
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