Tag: Bad Books

  • CHORDS: Bad Books – Wheel Well Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression

    This is the chord progression of Wheel Well by Bad Books on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

    [Verse 1]
    F                   C                          G                   F
    The birds on my stoop, they don\’t know the words
    F                   C                   G                   F
    For the pain in my tooth, or for other birds
    F                   C                   G                   C                   G
    The clouds they cut through on my way to work
    F                                     G
    And I do, what\’s that worth?

    [Verse 2]
    F                   C                   G                   F
    A name for all things, except for the cure
    F                   C                   G                   F
    To the sadness that sings, every night at your door
    F                   C        G        C      G         F
    At every door of every restless soul
    F                   G
    It\’s all we all know

    [Chorus]
    C       G              F                   C
    No peace, no calm, no coasting
    F                   G                   C
    No \’There but for the grace of God, go I\’
    F                   C                   F                   C
    We\’re all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
    F                   G                   Am
    As one goes, so goes everybody else
    F                                                       C
    Around the wheel well, around the wheel well

    [Verse 3]
    F                   C                   G                   F
    If the people you meet, are mostly you in disguise
    F                                     C                   G                   F
    Want what you want, something good in their lives
    F                   C                   G                   C                   G         F
    Is that a socialist song? An invocation of Christ, I guess
    F                                     G
    It\’s whatever you like

    [Chorus]
    C                   G                   F     C
    No peace, no calm, no coasting
    F                   G                   C
    No \’There but for the grace of God, go I\’
    F                   C                   F                   C
    We\’re all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
    F                   G                   Am
    As one goes, so goes everybody else
    F                   C                                     G
    Around the wheel well, around the wheel well

    [Bridge]
    F                   F                   C
    You left your body fading on your couch
    G                   C                   G                   F
    And felt I just might make it up
    F/F#                                     G
    Before I\’m wasting underground

    [Chorus 2]
    C     G                   F                   C
    So grieve your life spent hiding
    F                   G                   C
    The hours no one ever hands it back
    F                                                       C
    What\’s the use? Who kept score?
    F                   C
    Medieval school yard tug of war
    Am                   G                   F
    No architect, we built the cage ourselves

    [Chorus]
    C G F C
    No peace, no calm, no coasting
    F G C
    No \’There but for the grace of God, go I\’
    F C F C
    We\’re all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
    F G Am
    As one goes, so goes everybody else
    F C
    Around the wheel well, around the wheel well
    F C G F
    Around the wheel well, around the wheel well

    [Outro]
    No one\’s alone or it\’s the one thing we are
    Beasts with big brains, computers with hearts
    Obsessed with control, or frightened and power starved
    It will get you so far

  • CHORDS: Bad Books – Myths Made Plain Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression

    This is the chord progression of Myths Made Plain by Bad Books on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

    [Verse 1]
    A                             D                      G
    If you\’re wondering how we landed here
    A                             D                             G
    You were watching the waves and drinking beer
    A                                           D                             B
    You don\’t even remember standing up
    E
    Truly, I don\’t either

    [Verse 2]
    A                             D                             G
    At some point you waded to your waist
    A                                           D                             G
    As you slipped further out the stakes were raised
    A                             D                             B
    Finally you were surrounded, and for what?
    E
    A water darker and deeper

    [Chorus 1]
    G                                           A
    In 1997 I became myself
    D                                                         G
    And 20 minutes later I began to melt
    G                                         A
    The cycle I get used to in the course of time
    D                                                         G
    The shifting definitions that comprise a life
    G                             A                                         D
    The people I become and the people I don\’t recognize

    [Verse 3]
    A                                           D               G
    If you\’re wondering who arranged the mess
    A                             D                             G
    Some exceptions were made to grant, I guess
    A                                           D               B
    While we all let the peak of the parade
    E
    The underbelly went lethal

    [Chorus 2]
    G                             A
    In 2007 tried to build a bridge
    D                                                         G
    Between how I was living and how I could live
    G                                                                       A
    I tricked myself into thinking I\’d done enough
    D                                           G
    Once I got across I didn\’t blow it up
    G                             A                             D
    Yeah, I closed some lanes, all it really takes is one

    [Bridge]
    E                             F#                             G
    Opening to tear apart all your works
    D                    E                             F#                             G
    So fine you are, delicate un-achieve all your half-philosophy
    D               E                             F#               G
    Style points, blind belief a whirling perpetuity
    D                             E                             F#                             G
    The ocean warm that knows you did the same before

    [Chorus 3]
    G                             A
    So in 2017 we did away with facts
    D                             G
    All negotiation with a battle axe
    G A
    The gruesome ideology is center shame
    D G
    American identity was laid to waste
    G
    We\’re backlit and exposed
    A B D E
    Sugar stripped and it\’s made clean

    [Outro]
    G
    The people I become
    A D
    The people I can\’t replicate