{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1831811,"song":"Stained Glass Ceilings","artist":"The Wonder Years","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11404653-stained-glass-ceilings-chords-by-the-wonder-years/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1831811?type=chord","rating":4.89557,"votes":9,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLike a burning monk[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nYou're my light flare out in the dark[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nYou're my constant call to arms[/tab]\r\n\r\nTook the blindfold off\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey'd left chalk outlines where the future was[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nIt's a goddamn war of attrition[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nIt's a death by a thousand cuts[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd if these motherfuckers made it to heaven[/tab]\r\n\r\nThey burned the bridge when they got across\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey're gathering anchors[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey're gathering rope[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou push into heaven all alone[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey're grabbing your ankles[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey won't let you go[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe ebb and the distant flow[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey're cutting your wings off[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBuilt you ceilings out of stained glass[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWell you cut like gravel in my skinned knee[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nThe wound will close eventually[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou'll stay as a reminder of how fucked this world can be[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nHeld your funeral on a Tuesday[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nHoly waters, November cold[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe kid who pulled the trigger[/tab]\r\n\r\nKnew tomorrow couldn't promise him hope\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAll these bastards are gathering rope[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou push into heaven all alone[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey're grabbing your ankles[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey won't let you go[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe ebb and the distant flow[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey're cutting your wings off[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBuilt your ceilings out of stained glass[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey were cutting your wings off[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI was staring at my idle hands[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nMaybe I could've done something[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMaybe I could've made a difference[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n\r\n[ch]B[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] x4\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge 1]\r\n\r\n[Soupy]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C#m[/ch] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nJohn Wayne with a God complex Tells me to buy a gun[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLike shooting a teenage kid is gonna solve any problems [/tab]\r\n\r\nLike it's an arms race\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nLike death don't mean nothing[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo know the heavy price of living poor[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWalled in by red lines, backed into a corner[/tab]\r\n\r\nNot knowing growing up what it's like to belong here in America\r\n\r\n\r\n[Bridge 2]\r\n\r\n[Jason Aalon Butler]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nIf everyone's built the same then how come building's so fucking hard for you?[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt's something we're all born into [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nNothing's left up to gray[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nIt's black or white and sometimes black and blue[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIt's something we're all born into, whoa-oh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C#m[/ch] \r\nNow I know what's in a name[/tab]\r\n\r\nNot just my father\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThree-fifths a man makes half of me[/tab]\r\n\r\nWhy should I bother?\r\n\r\n\r\n[Soupy]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nMerchants of misery stacking the deck[/tab]\r\n\r\nFuck your John Waynes\r\n\r\nFuck your God complex\r\n\r\n\r\n[Jason Aalon Butler]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nI have everything in front of me[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut can't reach far enough[/tab]\r\n\r\nTo touch those fever dreams\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey call America[/tab]\r\n\r\nI am the ghetto's chosen one\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThe privileged bastard son[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThey're gathering anchors[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey're gathering rope[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou push into heaven all alone[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey're gathering anchors[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey're gathering rope[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou push into heaven all alone[/tab]\r\n\r\nNo, all alone\r\n\r\n\r\n[End]\r\n\r\n[ch]C#m[/ch]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\nTook the blindfold off\n\n\n\n\n\nThey burned the bridge when they got across\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKnew tomorrow couldn't promise him hope\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n\nB A x4\n\n\n[Bridge 1]\n\n[Soupy]\n\n\n\n\nLike it's an arms race\n\n\n\n\nNot knowing growing up what it's like to belong here in America\n\n\n[Bridge 2]\n\n[Jason Aalon Butler]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNot just my father\n\n\nWhy should I bother?\n\n\n[Soupy]\n\n\n\nFuck your John Waynes\n\nFuck your God complex\n\n\n[Jason Aalon Butler]\n\n\n\n\nTo touch those fever dreams\n\n\nI am the ghetto's chosen one\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo, all alone\n\n\n[End]\n\nC#m","chords":["E","C#m","G#m","A","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}