Chords for Xiuhtezcatl - Young Ft. Nahko and Shailene Woodley
Tempo:
58.05 bpm
Chords used:
Em
G
C
D
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Em] [C] [G] [D] [Em]
[C] [G] [D] [Em]
I'm young [C] and I'm positive.
I do things that [G] I've never not
been but growing up in a world
so cold that made [D] it hard for a
kid [Em] to not lose hope in my just
a voice [C] for the last
generation.
The ignorance of
people [G] taught me to be patient
so be patient and stay [D] humble
defeat the hatred [Em] and watch the
walls crumble.
Don't let the
pain of [C] the world steal your
smile.
Don't let the concrete
[G] table is once wild.
I run wild
no borders and no fences [D] tobacco
in the wind in [Em] all four
directions.
17 years [C] of obsidian
eyes.
Stood across the ocean [G] of
meridian lines to where oblivion
lies.
Shot my head in my time.
I'm [D] just a young fool.
I [C] just
seen the sun rise.
Is it just me?
[Em] Or is it this [G] city?
[Em] Lights have been swallowing me.
Who would believe?
Beautiful
[G] mask.
[Em] Beautiful [B] mask.
Great
skin.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
Damn.
[C] What have I become?
There's a
man in the mirror [G] I've been
trying to run from.
Sober.
I
don't want to look like an
older [D] addiction.
[Em] Pedimens are
feeding me an off on screen of
[C] anxiety.
Little boy inside I'd
be scared.
Yeah [G] but he's a
survivor.
Medicated and hated
himself for it.
[D] Left home to
forage and [Em] face God in the
forest.
Bypass.
[C] Shorten through
the trauma.
The loss of the
[G] feminine's a lot for mama.
I'm
guilty of abusing power.
[D] Retrieve my soul.
[Em] I've been a
coward.
We're not gonna be
distorted.
[C] My perception is
that I'm a woman who's given
into him again and [G] again and
again.
And the fucking sickness
forgive him.
He was just a
[F#] child.
[Em] Receive him as he
reconciles.
Is it just me?
Or is it this [G] city?
[C] Lights have been swallowing me.
[G] Who would [Em] believe?
Beautiful
[G] mask.
Beautiful [B] mask.
Great
skin.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
[C] Most
youth chase nothing.
[G] No sense
of direction.
Pressure to fit
into these boxes.
[D] Be perfect.
[Em] In a world of imperfection.
We
don't [C] celebrate laughter.
A
greater purpose.
[G] Or pursuing
your passion.
And I'm trapped
in my mind and the only [D] escape
is when I'm off [Em] stage rapping.
When your test scores [C] seem to
mean more.
Than to feel it
alive or [G] funny.
What you
breathe for?
I feel something
[D] missing.
A [Em] generation to dream
more.
Broken wings.
[C] Broken
hearts.
A broken will.
We'll
fall apart.
[G] All that I've done
is not enough.
There's too
[D] much.
I can't control.
[Em] And I
can't let go.
I feel the weight
[C] of the world on my shoulders.
I
feel the guilt [G] of never getting
sober.
I feel for you.
Never
felt love.
[D] I feel the pressure
[Em] of trying to grow up.
I feel
that blade.
[C] I feel the scars.
I
feel the fear of [G] not knowing
who we are.
The hate.
The love.
The tears that we shed.
[D] For
those that we lost.
[Em] Buried with
their regrets.
[C] And this is
deeper than the words.
Deeper
than the depression [G] of the kids
and the birds.
Man the pain of
being alive.
That still hurts.
[D] Prescribed by a doctor.
[Em] But
these pills don't work.
Over
the years.
And the more they
get the youth [C] from east and
west coast.
Scars on your
wrists [G] written suicide notices.
It's your life to live.
It's
your life to take.
[D] I'm sick and
[C] tired of these mistakes we make
ya.
Is it just me or [Em] is it this
[G] city?
[C] Lights have been
swallowing me.
Who would
[Em] believe a beautiful [G] mask.
Beautiful [C] mask can break free.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
[G] [C]
[Em] [G] [Em] [B]
[G] The reason we hurt, [C] the reason [G] we die, humanity has yet to figure [C] out.
To speak, to ask why.
[Em] Judgment, assumption, [C] apathy, were impossible to [Em] name.
They didn't exist [G] until we allowed ourselves to stray.
[Em] So [G] far from true story, we became [C] the afraid.
Afraid no [Em] more, we will rise to [C] unite.
It will mean [Em] you'll have dug to the roots of the [G] hurt.
You'll have gone to the depths that [C] we have yet to [G] discover.
To humanize the pain [C] we most intentionally uncover.
[Em] And you'll have returned to the surface, [C] this tree growing strong.
[Em] The new siren in your heart.
[E] Humanity will say [Em] thank you.
[C] [G] [D] [Em]
I'm young [C] and I'm positive.
I do things that [G] I've never not
been but growing up in a world
so cold that made [D] it hard for a
kid [Em] to not lose hope in my just
a voice [C] for the last
generation.
The ignorance of
people [G] taught me to be patient
so be patient and stay [D] humble
defeat the hatred [Em] and watch the
walls crumble.
Don't let the
pain of [C] the world steal your
smile.
Don't let the concrete
[G] table is once wild.
I run wild
no borders and no fences [D] tobacco
in the wind in [Em] all four
directions.
17 years [C] of obsidian
eyes.
Stood across the ocean [G] of
meridian lines to where oblivion
lies.
Shot my head in my time.
I'm [D] just a young fool.
I [C] just
seen the sun rise.
Is it just me?
[Em] Or is it this [G] city?
[Em] Lights have been swallowing me.
Who would believe?
Beautiful
[G] mask.
[Em] Beautiful [B] mask.
Great
skin.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
Damn.
[C] What have I become?
There's a
man in the mirror [G] I've been
trying to run from.
Sober.
I
don't want to look like an
older [D] addiction.
[Em] Pedimens are
feeding me an off on screen of
[C] anxiety.
Little boy inside I'd
be scared.
Yeah [G] but he's a
survivor.
Medicated and hated
himself for it.
[D] Left home to
forage and [Em] face God in the
forest.
Bypass.
[C] Shorten through
the trauma.
The loss of the
[G] feminine's a lot for mama.
I'm
guilty of abusing power.
[D] Retrieve my soul.
[Em] I've been a
coward.
We're not gonna be
distorted.
[C] My perception is
that I'm a woman who's given
into him again and [G] again and
again.
And the fucking sickness
forgive him.
He was just a
[F#] child.
[Em] Receive him as he
reconciles.
Is it just me?
Or is it this [G] city?
[C] Lights have been swallowing me.
[G] Who would [Em] believe?
Beautiful
[G] mask.
Beautiful [B] mask.
Great
skin.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
[C] Most
youth chase nothing.
[G] No sense
of direction.
Pressure to fit
into these boxes.
[D] Be perfect.
[Em] In a world of imperfection.
We
don't [C] celebrate laughter.
A
greater purpose.
[G] Or pursuing
your passion.
And I'm trapped
in my mind and the only [D] escape
is when I'm off [Em] stage rapping.
When your test scores [C] seem to
mean more.
Than to feel it
alive or [G] funny.
What you
breathe for?
I feel something
[D] missing.
A [Em] generation to dream
more.
Broken wings.
[C] Broken
hearts.
A broken will.
We'll
fall apart.
[G] All that I've done
is not enough.
There's too
[D] much.
I can't control.
[Em] And I
can't let go.
I feel the weight
[C] of the world on my shoulders.
I
feel the guilt [G] of never getting
sober.
I feel for you.
Never
felt love.
[D] I feel the pressure
[Em] of trying to grow up.
I feel
that blade.
[C] I feel the scars.
I
feel the fear of [G] not knowing
who we are.
The hate.
The love.
The tears that we shed.
[D] For
those that we lost.
[Em] Buried with
their regrets.
[C] And this is
deeper than the words.
Deeper
than the depression [G] of the kids
and the birds.
Man the pain of
being alive.
That still hurts.
[D] Prescribed by a doctor.
[Em] But
these pills don't work.
Over
the years.
And the more they
get the youth [C] from east and
west coast.
Scars on your
wrists [G] written suicide notices.
It's your life to live.
It's
your life to take.
[D] I'm sick and
[C] tired of these mistakes we make
ya.
Is it just me or [Em] is it this
[G] city?
[C] Lights have been
swallowing me.
Who would
[Em] believe a beautiful [G] mask.
Beautiful [C] mask can break free.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
[G] [C]
[Em] [G] [Em] [B]
[G] The reason we hurt, [C] the reason [G] we die, humanity has yet to figure [C] out.
To speak, to ask why.
[Em] Judgment, assumption, [C] apathy, were impossible to [Em] name.
They didn't exist [G] until we allowed ourselves to stray.
[Em] So [G] far from true story, we became [C] the afraid.
Afraid no [Em] more, we will rise to [C] unite.
It will mean [Em] you'll have dug to the roots of the [G] hurt.
You'll have gone to the depths that [C] we have yet to [G] discover.
To humanize the pain [C] we most intentionally uncover.
[Em] And you'll have returned to the surface, [C] this tree growing strong.
[Em] The new siren in your heart.
[E] Humanity will say [Em] thank you.
Key:
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G
C
D
B
Em
G
C
[Em] _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ [Em]
I'm young [C] and I'm positive.
I do things that [G] I've never not
been but growing up in a world
so cold that made [D] it hard for a
kid [Em] to not lose hope in my just
a voice [C] for the last
generation.
The ignorance of
people [G] taught me to be patient
so be patient and stay [D] humble
defeat the hatred [Em] and watch the
walls crumble.
Don't let the
pain of [C] the world steal your
smile.
Don't let the concrete
[G] table is once wild.
I run wild
no borders and no fences [D] tobacco
in the wind in [Em] all four
directions.
17 years [C] of obsidian
eyes.
Stood across the ocean [G] of
meridian lines to where oblivion
lies.
Shot my head in my time.
I'm [D] just a young fool.
I [C] just
seen the sun rise.
Is it just me?
[Em] Or is it this [G] city?
[Em] Lights have been swallowing me.
Who would believe?
Beautiful
[G] mask.
[Em] Beautiful [B] mask.
Great
skin.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
Damn.
[C] What have I become?
There's a
man in the mirror [G] I've been
trying to run from.
Sober.
I
don't want to look like an
older [D] addiction.
[Em] Pedimens are
feeding me an off on screen of
[C] anxiety.
Little boy inside I'd
be scared.
Yeah [G] but he's a
survivor.
Medicated and hated
himself for it.
[D] Left home to
forage and [Em] face God in the
forest.
Bypass.
[C] Shorten through
the trauma.
The loss of the
[G] feminine's a lot for mama.
I'm
guilty of abusing power.
[D] Retrieve my soul.
[Em] I've been a
coward.
We're not gonna be
distorted.
[C] My perception is
that I'm a woman who's given
into him again and [G] again and
again.
And the fucking sickness
forgive him.
He was just a
[F#] child.
[Em] Receive him as he
reconciles.
Is it just me?
Or is it this [G] city?
[C] Lights have been swallowing me.
[G] Who would [Em] believe?
Beautiful
[G] mask.
Beautiful [B] mask.
Great
skin.
_ [Em] I guess we'll see.
[C] Most
youth chase nothing.
[G] No sense
of direction.
Pressure to fit
into these boxes.
[D] Be perfect.
[Em] In a world of imperfection.
We
don't [C] celebrate laughter.
A
greater purpose.
[G] Or pursuing
your passion.
And I'm trapped
in my mind and the only [D] escape
is when I'm off [Em] stage rapping.
When your test scores [C] seem to
mean more.
Than to feel it
alive or [G] funny.
What you
breathe for?
I feel something
[D] missing.
A [Em] generation to dream
more.
Broken wings.
[C] Broken
hearts.
A broken will.
We'll
fall apart.
[G] All that I've done
is not enough.
There's too
[D] much.
I can't control.
[Em] And I
can't let go.
I feel the weight
[C] of the world on my shoulders.
I
feel the guilt [G] of never getting
sober.
I feel for you.
Never
felt love.
[D] I feel the pressure
[Em] of trying to grow up.
I feel
that blade.
[C] I feel the scars.
I
feel the fear of [G] not knowing
who we are.
The hate.
The love.
The tears that we shed.
[D] For
those that we lost.
[Em] Buried with
their regrets.
[C] And this is
deeper than the words.
Deeper
than the depression [G] of the kids
and the birds.
Man the pain of
being alive.
That still hurts.
[D] Prescribed by a doctor.
[Em] But
these pills don't work.
Over
the years.
And the more they
get the youth [C] from east and
west coast.
Scars on your
wrists [G] written suicide notices.
It's your life to live.
It's
your life to take.
[D] I'm sick and
[C] tired of these mistakes we make
ya.
Is it just me or [Em] is it this
[G] city?
[C] Lights have been
swallowing me.
Who would
[Em] believe a beautiful [G] mask.
Beautiful [C] mask can break free.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
[G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ [Em] _ [B] _
_ _ [G] _ The reason we hurt, [C] the reason [G] we die, humanity has yet to figure [C] out.
To speak, to ask why.
[Em] Judgment, assumption, [C] apathy, were impossible to [Em] name.
They didn't exist [G] until we allowed ourselves to stray.
[Em] So [G] far from true story, we became [C] the afraid.
Afraid no [Em] more, we will rise to [C] unite.
It will mean [Em] you'll have dug to the roots of the [G] hurt.
You'll have gone to the depths that [C] we have yet to [G] discover.
To humanize the pain [C] we most intentionally uncover.
[Em] And you'll have returned to the surface, [C] this tree growing strong.
[Em] The new siren in your heart.
[E] Humanity will say [Em] thank you. _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ [Em]
I'm young [C] and I'm positive.
I do things that [G] I've never not
been but growing up in a world
so cold that made [D] it hard for a
kid [Em] to not lose hope in my just
a voice [C] for the last
generation.
The ignorance of
people [G] taught me to be patient
so be patient and stay [D] humble
defeat the hatred [Em] and watch the
walls crumble.
Don't let the
pain of [C] the world steal your
smile.
Don't let the concrete
[G] table is once wild.
I run wild
no borders and no fences [D] tobacco
in the wind in [Em] all four
directions.
17 years [C] of obsidian
eyes.
Stood across the ocean [G] of
meridian lines to where oblivion
lies.
Shot my head in my time.
I'm [D] just a young fool.
I [C] just
seen the sun rise.
Is it just me?
[Em] Or is it this [G] city?
[Em] Lights have been swallowing me.
Who would believe?
Beautiful
[G] mask.
[Em] Beautiful [B] mask.
Great
skin.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
Damn.
[C] What have I become?
There's a
man in the mirror [G] I've been
trying to run from.
Sober.
I
don't want to look like an
older [D] addiction.
[Em] Pedimens are
feeding me an off on screen of
[C] anxiety.
Little boy inside I'd
be scared.
Yeah [G] but he's a
survivor.
Medicated and hated
himself for it.
[D] Left home to
forage and [Em] face God in the
forest.
Bypass.
[C] Shorten through
the trauma.
The loss of the
[G] feminine's a lot for mama.
I'm
guilty of abusing power.
[D] Retrieve my soul.
[Em] I've been a
coward.
We're not gonna be
distorted.
[C] My perception is
that I'm a woman who's given
into him again and [G] again and
again.
And the fucking sickness
forgive him.
He was just a
[F#] child.
[Em] Receive him as he
reconciles.
Is it just me?
Or is it this [G] city?
[C] Lights have been swallowing me.
[G] Who would [Em] believe?
Beautiful
[G] mask.
Beautiful [B] mask.
Great
skin.
_ [Em] I guess we'll see.
[C] Most
youth chase nothing.
[G] No sense
of direction.
Pressure to fit
into these boxes.
[D] Be perfect.
[Em] In a world of imperfection.
We
don't [C] celebrate laughter.
A
greater purpose.
[G] Or pursuing
your passion.
And I'm trapped
in my mind and the only [D] escape
is when I'm off [Em] stage rapping.
When your test scores [C] seem to
mean more.
Than to feel it
alive or [G] funny.
What you
breathe for?
I feel something
[D] missing.
A [Em] generation to dream
more.
Broken wings.
[C] Broken
hearts.
A broken will.
We'll
fall apart.
[G] All that I've done
is not enough.
There's too
[D] much.
I can't control.
[Em] And I
can't let go.
I feel the weight
[C] of the world on my shoulders.
I
feel the guilt [G] of never getting
sober.
I feel for you.
Never
felt love.
[D] I feel the pressure
[Em] of trying to grow up.
I feel
that blade.
[C] I feel the scars.
I
feel the fear of [G] not knowing
who we are.
The hate.
The love.
The tears that we shed.
[D] For
those that we lost.
[Em] Buried with
their regrets.
[C] And this is
deeper than the words.
Deeper
than the depression [G] of the kids
and the birds.
Man the pain of
being alive.
That still hurts.
[D] Prescribed by a doctor.
[Em] But
these pills don't work.
Over
the years.
And the more they
get the youth [C] from east and
west coast.
Scars on your
wrists [G] written suicide notices.
It's your life to live.
It's
your life to take.
[D] I'm sick and
[C] tired of these mistakes we make
ya.
Is it just me or [Em] is it this
[G] city?
[C] Lights have been
swallowing me.
Who would
[Em] believe a beautiful [G] mask.
Beautiful [C] mask can break free.
[Em] I guess we'll see.
[G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ [Em] _ [B] _
_ _ [G] _ The reason we hurt, [C] the reason [G] we die, humanity has yet to figure [C] out.
To speak, to ask why.
[Em] Judgment, assumption, [C] apathy, were impossible to [Em] name.
They didn't exist [G] until we allowed ourselves to stray.
[Em] So [G] far from true story, we became [C] the afraid.
Afraid no [Em] more, we will rise to [C] unite.
It will mean [Em] you'll have dug to the roots of the [G] hurt.
You'll have gone to the depths that [C] we have yet to [G] discover.
To humanize the pain [C] we most intentionally uncover.
[Em] And you'll have returned to the surface, [C] this tree growing strong.
[Em] The new siren in your heart.
[E] Humanity will say [Em] thank you. _