{"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":2869337,"song":"What You Will","artist":"Matt Pless","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11647719-what-you-will-chords-by-matt-pless/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2869337?type=chord","rating":4.86498,"votes":3,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch] [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI had a friend who had to vent[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nOn a time that left him quite verklempt[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI asked exactly what he meant[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd helplessly he said:[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\"I'm just a boy with a broken dream[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nAnd a chemical dependency[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThat's eating up what's left of me[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhile they say plan ahead\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nHe asked his father \"what's the point?[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe future ain't too bright.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nThen dad replied for the first time:[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"I think you might be right\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCause your generation's on medication[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBlinded by inebriation[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWallowing in procrastination[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFrankly bored of education[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLive in fear of foreign nations[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNuclear annihilation[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSearching for an explanation[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhile I have the realization that it's all my fault[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd such is life[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n([ch]C[/ch]) [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI held a girl for a bit of a while[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nIn an age where a smile was out of style[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nShe made denial seem worth while[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI never quite knew how[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe had a voice and a wish for fame[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nAnd claimed the world would know here name[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI told her I once felt the same[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut look where I am now[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nSo darling, keep your head on straight[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe vision won't pan out[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nShe'd say \"I always get my way and[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou can just get out!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo she worked real hard and she danced away[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut she put a play for her mirror all day[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the years went by, she turned 28[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOver the hill and a little too late[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith deteriorating mental health[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe president's dead cause she proved herself[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd though you never heard her sing[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe's on magazines and TV screens[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhile she sits and smiles in a prison cell[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere she hung herself with a studded belt[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe went out like a star[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd such is life[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n([ch]C[/ch]) [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI knew a fella so tried and true[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nHe's a lot like me and a bit like you[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWho struggled through what bound him to[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA social web of lies[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe saw the things he chose to see[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nInside a world of fantasy[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd never fit too comfortably[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn anybody's eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nBut, when the system pulled his card[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd said, \"You turned out right\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nWe fed you fear for 18 years[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPreparing for a fight[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo, son get off that unicorn and come try on this uniform[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCause these are the colors that never run:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nRed, white, blue, and a silver gun[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThough he never laid a finger on anyone, he just sang his songs and had his fun[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn the battlefield he met his end[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen he took a bullet to save his friend[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHis mom got word the other day[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn a letter that read, \"Thanks anyway\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut that's how freedom rings. And such is life[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n([ch]C[/ch]) [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy thought on everybody else[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nWould lead me back to view myself[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd take the sorrow that I felt[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo build a case-in-point[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy home sweet home of lemon drops[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C/B[/ch]\r\nWhere dinner's served on counter tops[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe healthy family unit stops[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen parents disappoint[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]C/B[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe stranger's hand that feeds you is a jackal in disguise[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C/B[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat sends us poison arrows from apocalyptic skies[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's a fallout child with an empty face[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWho'll finish last in the human race[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn a vegetative state at his parents' place[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAn ashamed disgraced who's afraid to age[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHis rage enslaves a caged white dove[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWho's raised on drugs and selfish love[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe product of a time defined by me, myself, and I combined[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith a slow decline on a string of pills[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhile the world keeps turning, we're standing still[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd growing up all wrong[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe sandbox lines are drawn[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe backward beat goes on[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd such is life[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n([ch]C[/ch]) [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nC C/B Am F G\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n(C) G C\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n(C) G C\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n(C) G C\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n(C) G C","chords":["C","C/B","Am","F","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}