Chords for 7.7.7 - Matt Pless - "What You Will"

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[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] I had a friend who had [Am] to thank God for a time that left him quite [Dm] reflect
I asked exactly what he [Bb] meant and [C] helplessly he said
[F] I'm just a boy with a broken dream [Am] and a chemical [Dm] dependency
That's eating up what's left [Bb] of me while they [C] say plan ahead
[Dm] He asked [C] his father what's [Bb] the point of you [C] juries, he's right
[Dm] Then dad [C] replied for the [Bb] first time, I think [C] he might be right
[F] Put your [C] generations on [F] medication, blinded [C] by [F] initiation
Following [C] in [F] procrastination, anti [C]-college [F] education
Living [C] in fear of foreign [F] nations, nuclear [C] and radiation
[F] Searching [C] for an [F] explanation while I [C] have no [Bb] realization
That it's [C] all my fault and [F] such is life
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[F] _ _ _ I held a girl for a bit of a [Am] while, in an age where a smile was out of [Dm] style
She made denial seem [Bb] worthwhile, I never [C] quite knew why
[F] She had a voice and a wish for [Am] fame and claimed the world would know her [Dm] name
I told her I once felt the [Bb] same, but look [C] where I am now
[Dm] So darling, [C] keep your head on [Bb] straight, this vision [C] won't fade out
[Dm] She'd say I [C] always stepped my [Bb] way and he kept [C] his tail
[F] So she worked real [C] hard and she danced [F] away, but she put on a [C] play for her mirror all [F] day
And the years went [C] by, she turned [F] 28, over the [C] hill and a little too [F] late
She's [C] deteriorating, mental [F] health, the [C] president's dead, but she proved [F] herself
And though [C] you never heard her [F] sing, she's on [C] magazines and TV
[F] Throwing off instant [C] smiles in a printing [F] cell, first come to [C] sell, put the study belt
She went out like a [F] star, and such was life _ _ _ _ _
I knew a fella so tried [Am] and true, he's a lot like me and a bit [Dm] like you
He struggled through what bound [Bb] him to a [C] social level in [F] life
He saw the things he chose [Am] to see inside a world of [Dm] fantasy
And never fit too [Bb] comfortably in [C] anybody's [Dm] eyes
But when [C] the system moved [Bb] his heart, it said, you [C] turned out right
[Dm] We fed you [C] a beer for 18 [Bb] years, preparing [C] for a fight
[F] So son, [C] get off that unicorn [F] and come try [C] on this uniform
[F] Cause these are the [C] colors that never run, [F] red, white, blue, and a silver gun
Though he never laid a finger on anyone, he sang his songs [C] and had his fun
[F] On the battlefield, [C] he met his end, but [F] he took a bullet [C] to save his [F] friend
His mom got hurt the other day, [F] in a letter that read, [C] thanks anyway
[Bb] But that's how freedom [C] rings, and such [F] was life
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[F] _ _ _ My thoughts on everybody else [Am] would lead me back to view myself
[Dm] And take the sorrow that I felt [Bb] to build a case [C] in point
[F] My own sweet home of lemon drops, [Am] where dinner's served on countertops
[Dm] The healthy family unit stops [Bb] for parents to [C] support
The [Dm] stranger's hand [Am] that feeds you is a [Bb] jackal in disguise
[Dm] That sends us poison [Am] arrows [Bb] from a [C] popgoat disguised
[F] There's a fallout child with [C] an empty face, who [F] will finish last in [C] the human race
[F] In a vegetative state [C] at his parents' place, [F] and a shame disgrace
[C] Who's afraid to age, [F] and is raised in slaves, [C] a caged white dove
Who's raised on [C] drugs and selfish [F] love, the product [C] of a time [F] defined
By me, [C] myself, and I [F] combined with a snook
[C] On a string of [F] pills, while the world [C] keeps turning worse than it's still
And growing up all [Bb] wrong, the [C] sandbox lines are [Bb] flawed
With a [C] backward veto song, and such [F] is life
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[F] _ _ you
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