Biography:
The Wonder Years is an American pop punk band from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, United States that formed in June 2005. Since their conception, they have released five full-length albums, two EPs, and several splits/compilations. The group is currently signed to Hopeless Records. Their name originates from a paper that lead vocalist, Dan 'Soupy' Campbell, read written by his after-school education teacher titled "The Wonder Years"
Current members
Matt Brasch – guitar, backing vocals
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Other songs:
- Came Out Swinging
- Cigarettes And Saints
- Dismantling Summer
- Don't Let Me Cave In
- Hey Thanks
- I Was Scared And I'm Sorry
- Local Man Ruins Everything
- Madelyn
- My Last Semester
- Passing Through A Screen Door
- The Bluest Things On Earth
- The Devil In My Bloodstream
- Woke Up Older
- You In January
- There, There
- A Song For Ernest Hemingway
- A Song For Patsy Cline
- All My Friends Are In Bar Bands
- An American Religion
- An Elegy For Baby Blue
- And Now Im Nothing
- Cardinals
- Christmas At 22
- Coffee Eyes
- Cul
- Devil In My Bloodstream
- Dont Let Me Cave In
- Everything I Own Fits In This Backpack
- Flowers Where Your Face Should Be
- Heavens Gate Sad And Sober
- Hey Julie
- Hoodie Weather
- I Dont Like Who I Was Then
- I Just Wanna Sell Out My Funeral
- I Wanted So Badly To Be Brave
- I Was Scared And Im Sorry
- I Wont Say The Lords Prayer
- It Must Get Lonely
- Its Never Sunny In South Philadelphia
- Ive Given You All
- Living Room Song
- Logan Circle
- Logan Circle A New Hope
- Me Vs The Highway
- Melrose Diner
- My Life As Rob Gordon
- New Years With Carl Weathers
- No Closer To Heaven
- Palm Reader
- Pyramids Of Salt
- Racing Trains
- Raining In Kyoto
- Sister Cities
- Slow Dancing With San Andreas
- Stained Glass Ceilings
- Suburbia
- Teenage Parents
- Thanks For The Ride
- The Bastards The Vultures The Wolves
- The Ghosts Of Right Now
- The Ocean Grew Hands To Hold Me
- The Orange Grove
- There There
- This Party Sucks
- Washington Square Park
- We Look Like Lightning
- When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong
- When The Blue Finally Came
- Wont Be Pathetic Forever
- You Made Me Want To Be A Saint
- Youre Not Salinger Get Over It
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Tuned one-half step down to play along with the record.
All chords relative to standard tuning.
Power chords work fine for most of the song, but if you want to play full chords, they would be:
C - x32010
C/B - x20010
F - x33210
F/E - x02010
G - 320010
Dm - xx0231
[Intro]
C F F/E G F G (x2)
[Verse]
C C/B
It's goddamn freezing in this city
C/B
There's no heat in my room
Dm F G
It's like it never stops raining and I'm soaked through
C C/B Dm
My life's become this tightrope act
F G C
One wrong step, I'm off the edge
C/B Dm F G
So now I'm scared to death of an ear infection
C
It's like I'm chasing ambulances
C/B
Trying to pull out something from the wreckage
Dm F G
Nothing ever goes the way we fucking planned it
[Chorus]
C
Cause most days are bad days
F G F
We can't just wait for someone to pull me off of the concrete
C F G
We stopped standing proud a year ago now
F G Am
What you see is just a shell of who I used to be
G C F G
I can't believe I got this weak
[Verse]
C
So I'm stuck here wide awake
C/B
In the wake of bad news
Dm
We know now what's
F G
At stake and I'm scared too
C
You know that I can't take naps cause
C/B
They end in panic attacks
Dm
I can't play video games
F G
Cause I always end up depressed
C F
I can't be left alone now for even
C F G
a second - I'm a burden but at least I know it
[Chorus]
C
Cause most days are bad days
F G F
We can't just wait for someone to pull me off of the concrete
C F G
We stopped standing proud a year ago now
F G Am
What you see is just a shell of who I used to be
G C F G
I can't believe I got this weak
[Interlude]
C F F/E G F G (x2)
[Bridge]
C
And I don't think I love anything the way that
G
some people love Morrissey, it's just that
F G
nothing speaks to me that way
C
And I, I can tell you that the world looks bleak
G
From where I'm sitting at the bottom of the city
F
But no matter where you sit
G
The skyline looks the same
[Outro]
C C/B
And I don't think I love anything like
Dm F G
And I don't think I love anything like
C C/B
And I don't think I love anything like
Dm F G
And I don't think I love anything like
C F
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
G F
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
C F
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
G F
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
C
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
C
Most days are bad days, but we can't just wait.
All chords relative to standard tuning.
Power chords work fine for most of the song, but if you want to play full chords, they would be:
C - x32010
C/B - x20010
F - x33210
F/E - x02010
G - 320010
Dm - xx0231
[Intro]
C F F/E G F G (x2)
[Verse]
C C/B
It's goddamn freezing in this city
C/B
There's no heat in my room
Dm F G
It's like it never stops raining and I'm soaked through
C C/B Dm
My life's become this tightrope act
F G C
One wrong step, I'm off the edge
C/B Dm F G
So now I'm scared to death of an ear infection
C
It's like I'm chasing ambulances
C/B
Trying to pull out something from the wreckage
Dm F G
Nothing ever goes the way we fucking planned it
[Chorus]
C
Cause most days are bad days
F G F
We can't just wait for someone to pull me off of the concrete
C F G
We stopped standing proud a year ago now
F G Am
What you see is just a shell of who I used to be
G C F G
I can't believe I got this weak
[Verse]
C
So I'm stuck here wide awake
C/B
In the wake of bad news
Dm
We know now what's
F G
At stake and I'm scared too
C
You know that I can't take naps cause
C/B
They end in panic attacks
Dm
I can't play video games
F G
Cause I always end up depressed
C F
I can't be left alone now for even
C F G
a second - I'm a burden but at least I know it
[Chorus]
C
Cause most days are bad days
F G F
We can't just wait for someone to pull me off of the concrete
C F G
We stopped standing proud a year ago now
F G Am
What you see is just a shell of who I used to be
G C F G
I can't believe I got this weak
[Interlude]
C F F/E G F G (x2)
[Bridge]
C
And I don't think I love anything the way that
G
some people love Morrissey, it's just that
F G
nothing speaks to me that way
C
And I, I can tell you that the world looks bleak
G
From where I'm sitting at the bottom of the city
F
But no matter where you sit
G
The skyline looks the same
[Outro]
C C/B
And I don't think I love anything like
Dm F G
And I don't think I love anything like
C C/B
And I don't think I love anything like
Dm F G
And I don't think I love anything like
C F
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
G F
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
C F
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
G F
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
C
Most days are bad days, but we can't just
C
Most days are bad days, but we can't just wait.
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