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Sister Cities

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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Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Artist:The Wonder Years
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

1.Raining in Kyoto
2.Pyramids of Salt
3.It Must Get Lonely
4.Sister Cities
5.Flowers Where Your Face Should Be
6.Heavens Gate(Sad & Sober)
7.We Look Like Lightning
8.The Ghosts of Right Now
9.When the Blue Finally Came
10.The Orange Grove
11.The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me

1.Raining In Kyoto

Song: Raining in Kyoto
Artist: The Wonder Years
Album: Sister Cities
Track: 1
Key: D minor
Tuning: Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Verse 1]
Dm F
Raining in Kyoto
Bb
It's flooding the streets
Gm Dm
I'm nursing a coffee from a vending machine
F Bb
I saw the god of rice, a fox with a key
Dm F
I woke up blind with a headache
Bb
Grinding my teeth
Gm Dm
Confused and alone and taking pills to sleep
F Bb
They soften your absence but they don't let me dream, dream
Gm Bb Gm Bb F Em

[Verse 2]
Dm F
Raining in Kyoto
Bb
My breath turns into steam
G Dm
I'll buy you a candle, not even sure what it means
F
I'm cursed to the matches
Bb
I'm drowning my grief
Dm F Bb
An old man stood close by, smiled at me
G
I rang the bell like he did
Dm
I told you I'm sorry
F Bb F Em
A makeshift funeral, I tried to set you free

[Chorus 1]
F C
You're half asleep
Dm Bb F Em
And I bought you a radio to drown out the machines
F C Dm Bb F Em
Hospital light, you asked about the way you wish that they'd let you outside
Dm F Bb G

[Verse 3]
Dm F
Raining in Kyoto
Bb
I'm starting to shake
G
They'll hold a service tomorrow
Dm
I'm an ocean away
F Bb
Reach into my pocket, found a small paper crane
Dm F
It's been over a year now
Bb
April turns into May
G Dm
I barely stopped moving, I've been so fucking afraid
F Bb F Em
Too much of a coward to even visit your grave

[Chorus 2]
F C
You're half awake
Dm Bb F Em
And I bought you a radio to play the blues away
F C Dm Bb
With my hand to hold, you asked about the way you wish that they'd let you die at home

[Bridge]
Gm Am Bb C Dm
Dm
Gm Am Bb C
Dm

[Chorus 3]
F C
You're half awake
Dm Bb F Em
And I bought you a radio to play the blues away
F C Dm Bb
Hospital light, you asked about the way you wish that they'd let you outside

[Outro]
C Dm
Goodnight, Goodnight, Goodbye
Dm

2.Pyramids of Salt

Song:Pyramids of Salt
Artist:The Wonder Years
Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Track:2
Key:C# minor
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Verse 1]
C#m E
I saw you hiding in the ivy
F#m A
I know you're too afraid to call
C#m E
They're getting ready for the winter here
F#m A G#m
They've gathered pyramids of salt
C#m E
You saw them having trouble breathing
F#m A
I know you think that it's your fault
C#m E
I saw you hiding in the ivy
F#m A G#m
Keeping quiet through the fall
C#m E F#m A
C#m E F#m A G#m

[Verse 2]
C#m E
There's a bird inside your rib cage
F#m A
He screams so I never forget
C#m E
I wanna break open your sternum
F#m A G#m
I wanna rip him from his nest
C#m E
And sow you back up like a garden
F#m A
Growing flowers from your chest
C#m E
There's a bird inside your rib cage
F#m A G#m
I keep trying to forget
C#m

[Chorus]
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand with these worthless fucking hands
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand, you washed it away again

[Verse 3]
C#m E
I saw you hiding in the ivy
F#m A
Watched the night start to decay
C#m E
And you wonder in the morning who's gonna drag
F#m A G#m
The sun out of the lake
C#m E
You move gently off the sore spots
D A
I can see that you're in pain
C#m E
Everything left in the light here long enough
F#m A G#m
Is someday gonna fade
C#m

[Chorus]
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand with these worthless fucking hands
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand, you washed it away again
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand with these goddamn worthless hands
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand, you washed it away again
E A

[Bridge]
E
We're so vacant
A
These bodies
E
Collapsing
A
So gracefully
E
And I love you
A
And I'm sorry
E A
And I understand if you blame me
E
And I'm helpless
A
And you're drowning
E C#m B
And I'm beating at the water here so desperately
C#m
So desperately

[Chorus]
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand with these worthless fucking hands
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand, you washed it away again
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand with these goddamn worthless hands
A E C#m B
I drew a line in the sand, you washed it away again
C#m
Don't wash me away again

3.It Must Get Lonely

Song:It Must Get Lonely
Artist: The Wonder Years
Album: Sister Cities
Track: 3
Key: E minor
Tuning: Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Intro]
Bm C Bm C Bm Am G

[Verse 1]
G C
I'm a raw nerve in the sunlight
G C
After two weeks in the dark
G C
If you've gotta tell me you're not using
G C
It's probably 'cause you are

[Pre-Chorus]
Em
I saw you there
G Am
Just a block off to see your rowhome
C Em G
On an empty street where the others have been torn down
C
And you're the last one standing

[Chorus 1]
Bm C Bm C Bm C Bm Am G
It must get lonely
Bm C Bm C Bm C Bm Am G
It must get lonely

[Verse 2]
G C
When the grace starts to swallow grey
G
Where the sky meets the Irish sea
C
Like a suit that's been to too many funerals
G
And starts fraying at the seams
C G
I saw a bag of clementines split right open on an English street
C
And the contrast made me feel so goddamn dizzy

[Pre-Chorus]
Em
I saw you there
G Am
Just a block off to see your rowhome
C Em G
On an empty street where the others have been torn down
C
And you're the last one standing

[Bridge 1]
Am Em C
It must get obvious enough that I'm not ever gonna change
Am Em C G
It must get obvious enough, I'm the one who stays

[Chorus 2]
Bm C Bm C Bm C Bm
But it must get lonely
Am G
It must get lonely
Bm C Bm C Bm C Bm
But it must get lonely
Am G
But it must get lonely

[Verse 3]
G D Bm C
I'm a specter in the dim light on the flowers by the grave
G D C
In the Montmartre in Paris
C G
Where the crows seem to know my name
D Bm C
And they left footprints in the snow
C G
Along the fence on Palmer Street
D C
Cigarette butts on the headstones
C
That you left for me

[Pre-Chorus]
Em
I saw you there
G Am
Just a block off to see your rowhome
C Em G
On an empty street where the others have been torn down
C
And you're the last one standing

[Bridge 2]
Am Em C
It must get obvious enough that I'm not ever gonna change
Am Em C
It must get obvious enough, I'm the one who stays
Am Em C
It must get obvious enough that you're not ever gonna change
Am Em C
It must get obvious enough, you're the one who stays

[Chorus 3]
Bm C Bm C Bm C Bm
But it must get lonely
Am G
It must get lonely
Bm C Bm C Bm C Bm
(it must get lonely)
Am G
It must get lonely
Bm C Bm C Bm C Bm
(it must get lonely)
Am G
It must get lonely
Bm C Bm C Bm C Bm
(it must get lonely)
Am G
It must get lonely
Bm
You know, it must get lonely

4.Sister Cities

Song:Sister Cities
Artist:The Wonder Years
Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Track:4
Key:B minor
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Intro]
Bm D

[Verse]
Bm D Em
The moon is hanging low over the central station
Bm Em
I watch the buses leave in silence, bound for foreign distant places
Bm D Em
The Andes hold me close. A mothers only son
Bm Em
I feel weightless in the valley, like I'm everywhere at once

[Chorus]
G D
I'm laying low
G
A stray dog in the street
D
You took me home
F#m
We’re sister cities
G D
I'm laying low
G
A stray dog in the street
F#m
You took me home
F#m
We’re sister cities
Bm D
Bm

[Verse]
Bm D Em
We came here abandoned An old brick faced apartment
Bm Em
Rusted swing set in the courtyard like the one that I was born in
Bm D Em
I'm guarded like I'm wounded, my first instinct's always “run”
Bm Em
I wanna turn the scene, I wanna call it off, I want a light in the dark
Em
I wanna swallow the sun!

[Chorus]
G D
I'm laying low
G
A stray dog in the street
D
You took me home
F#m
We’re sister cities
G D
I'm laying low
G
A stray dog in the street
F#m
You took me home

[Bridge]
G A Bm
I was just mange and skin and bone
G A D F#m G
You took me into your home
A C#m D E F#m
Kept warm on a blanket from your worn out winter coat
G

[Chorus]
G D
I'm laying low
G
A stray dog in the street
D
You took me home
F#m
We’re sister cities
G D
I'm laying low
G
A stray dog in the street
F#m
You took me home
F#m
We’re sister cities
G D
I'm laying low
G
A stray dog in the street
D
You took me home
F#m
We’re sister cities

[Outro]
Bm D
We're sister cities
Bm D
Bm

5.Flowers Where Your Face Should Be

Song:Flowers Where Your Face Should Be
Artist:The Wonder Years
Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Track:5
Key:D Major
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Verse 1]
D
Bright blue hydrangeas
G D
Lost in the weeds
G
Bus stops and barbed wire on the way to stare
Em
At the heart of the earth from the Poas peak
G Em
Just like the ones that we grew back in Jersey
G
Hung upside down, drying out for the wedding

[Verse 2]
D G
There's a man with his head in his hands on the sidewalk
D G
His wife's there behind him just off of the street
D G D
She scratches his back as he sobs on the asphalt
G
And what strikes me most is the symmetry
Em
How they're framed just like you and me
G
When the light from the hospital's eastern wing
Em G
Tangles up in your hair and the sadness it pooled in my heart
G
Starts emptying slowly

[Chorus]
D C#m Bm A G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
D C#m Bm A G
And there were hydrangeas where your face should be

[Verse 3]
D G D
The redwoods feel lonely and lunar and distant
G D
The sun comes in fragments through breaks in the trees
G
And I feel further from home than I've ever been
G
These thin lines of light across space tether you to me
Em G
They pull in my memories, back to our apartment on 2nd Street
Em G
Through the South-facing window the light catches lengths of your hair

Like a path that you left me

[Chorus]
D C#m Bm A G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
D C#m Bm A G
But there were azaleas where your face should be

[Bridge]
D/F# Em
Pieces of us in the morning sun
G
Sleeping bags under the 101
D/F# Em
She takes off his glasses and she falls asleep again
G
They don't got much but goddamn they got love

[Chorus]
D C#m Bm A G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
D C#m Bm A G
I'm gonna marry you underneath driftwood from Crescent City

[Outro]
D C#m Bm A G
D A Bm A G
D C#m Bm A G
D A Bm A G

6.Heavens Gate(Sad & Sober)

Song:Heaven's Gate(Sad & Sober)
Artist:The Wonder Years
Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Track:6
Key:B minor
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Intro]
G Bm A

[Verse 1]
G
I've been thinking a lot about
G
When the furnace goes
Bm A
It's the absence of heat that hurts more than the cold
G
And I got caught in the irony of walking alone
Bm A
Down an entire block that's just funeral homes and the ground below

[Chorus]
D
Sad and sober Sunday afternoon
G D Bbm
Sad and sober Sunday afternoon
Bm A
You disappear in fragments and phases of the moon
G D Bbm
Sad and sober Sunday afternoon
Bm A
You disappear in fragments and phases of the moon
G Bm A

[Verse 2]
G
I watched parts of you dissolve
Bm
Turn to ash and then get carried up
A
I watched your memory fade
G
Shadows burned into the wall
Bm
And no, I felt my lungs turn into atom bombs
A
Choke on the Florida heat until the oxygen's gone

[Chorus]
G D Bbm
Sad and sober, Sunday afternoon
Bm A
You disappear in fragments and phases of the moon
G D Bbm
Sad and sober, Sunday afternoon
Bm A Em Bm
You disappear in fragments and phases of the moon
G D F#m
Or an empty room
Em Bm
Or the twelve-bar blues
G D F#m
Or a light in June

[Bridge]
Em Bm
You were a bandit, and I was a car wreck
G
You were the decades on my feet
D F#m
I was under purple blankets

Em Bm
You were a bandit, and I was a car wreck
G
You were the rifle on the wall
D F#m
And it was always gonna end

Em Bm
You were a bandit, and I was a car wreck
G
You were the false rain that falls
D F#m
From a window AC unit

Em Bm
You were a bandit, and I was a car wreck
G
You were the rifle on the wall
N.C.
And it was always going to end like this

7.We Look Like Lightning

Song:We Look Like Lightning
Artist:The Wonder Years
Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Track:7
Key:B minor
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Chorus 1+2 Riff]
E|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------|
D|---4---5-4---4---5-4---4---5-4---4---7-4-|
A|---------------------5---5-----5---5-----|
D|-2---2-----5---5-------------------------|

E|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|---------------------|
D|---4---5-4---4---5-4-|
A|---------------------|
D|-2---2-----5---5-----|

[Chorus 3 Riff]

E|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------|
D|---4---5-4---4---5-4---4---5-4---4---7-4-|
A|---------------------5---5-----5---5-----| x2
D|-2---2-----5---5-------------------------|

E|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------|
D|---4---5-4---4---5-4---4---5-4---4---7-4-|
A|---------------------5---5-----0---0-----|
D|-2---2-----5---5-------------------------|

E|---------------------|
B|---------------------|
G|---------------------|
D|---4---5-4---4---5-4-|
A|---------------------|
D|-2---2-----5---5-----|

[Verse 1]
Bm D G
I forgot what month it is again
Bm
I'm half awake
D G
I know it's wrong but I swear to God it's almost Christmas
Bm D G
In a language I don't understand
Bm D
There's a shaking voice on the PA
G
The other passengers seem nervous

[Chorus 1]
N.C.
I'm playing
Em G D
What song do you want to die to?
Em G
What song do you...

[Verse 2]
Bm D G
I'm suddenly aware of our speed
Bm D
Sew the world together tightly
G
Cinch the gaps with pins and string
Bm D G
And the beacon out there on the wing
Bm D
It lights the clouds from inside out
G
And from the ground we look like lightning

[Chorus 2]
N.C.
I'm playing
Em G D
What song do you want to die to?
Em G
What song do you...
Bm - D - G

[Verse 3]
Bm D G
I'm everywhere at once again
Bm D
I hear the ocean in the engine
G
I feel the moonlight creeping in
Bm D G
Maybe it's all in my head
Bm D
An unknown foreign presence in your bloodstream
G
I'm a stranger in my bed

[Chorus 3]
N.C.
I'm playing
Em G D
What song do you want to die to ?
Em G D
What song do you want to die to?
Em G D A
What song do you want to die to?
Em G
What song do you?
Bm - D - G (With Flanger)

[Bridge]
Bm D G
I'm flashing back to us one night in a prairie town
G
(Tornado alley, outrunning a storm)
Bm D G
They can see the dirt there under my fingernails
G
(I'm just a pile of bones left on an airport floor)
Bm D G
The bags under my eyes have got space when you bottom out
G
(To pack your things and make a break for the door)
Bm D G
One day the things you love are gonna put you in the ground
G
(But I'm planning on running 'til I can't anymore)

[Outro]
Em G D
What song do you, want to die to?
Em G D
What song do you, want to die to?
Em G D A
What song do you, want to die to?
Em G
What song do you?
Em G
What song do you?
Em G
What song do you?

8.The Ghosts of Right Now

Song:The Ghosts of Right Now
Artist:The Wonder Years
Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Track:8
Key:D minor
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Fill]
E||--------------|
B|---------------|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|-----0-1-0-----|
D|-3-5-------5-3-|

[Intro]
Dm F

[Verse 1]
Dm
I wanna take you someplace safer
F
Pull your pain out with my teeth
Dm F A
I wanna take away the ulcers burning holes into your cheeks
Dm F
And I wanna bring you back to water, turn your branches evergreen
Dm
I wanna take you someplace safer
F Dm
I wanna leave

[Chorus]
Bb Dm F Bb F
I wanted to see how the light collects in the high desert heat
A Bb Dm F Bb
And you point to where the South Sister should be behind the clouds
F Em
I'm haunted by the ghosts of right now
Dm F A

[Verse 2]
Dm
The entire coast is out of water
F A
It's turning different shades of grey
Dm
Like watching somebody you love
F A
As they slowly waste away
Dm
And you looked skinny at my wedding
F A
Sick of carrying the weight
Dm F
Of all the doctors and all the treatments and all the reasons to be afraid

[Chorus]
Bb Dm F Bb F
I wanted to see how the light collects in the high desert heat
A Bb Dm F Bb
And you point to where the South Sister should be behind the clouds
F Em Dm C# Bb
I'm haunted by the ghosts of right now
Dm C# Bb Dm
The ghosts of right now

[Bridge]
Dm C# Bb A Gm Dm C#

Dm F A
I wanna take you someplace safer
Dm F A
I wanna take you someplace safer
A C# Dm

[Chorus]
Bb Dm F Bb F
I wanted to see how the light collects in the high desert heat
A Bb Dm F Bb
And you point to where the South Sister should be behind the clouds
F Em
I'm haunted by the ghosts of right now
Dm F Dm

9.When The Blue Finally Came

Song:When the Blue Finally Came
Artist:The Wonder Years
Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Track:9
Key:D major
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Verse 1]
D G
Watch the sun burn out and dig itself a grave
Em G
In the ocean south of Sydney off the interstate
D G
And I hold out my hand trying not to shake
Em
Watched you jump off of a cliff
G
And start to levitate

[Chorus]
Bm G
And yeah I'm afraid
D
But I'll follow you anyway
Bm G
When the blue finally came
D
It swallowed up everything

[Verse 2]
D
In the sea of trees
G
I thought that I'd hear ghosts in the waves
Em
When the wind blew through
G
I heard joy return to a cold and lonesome place
D G
I made out your voice, but I can't ask you to stay
Em
Watched you walk into the woods
G
And start to levitate

[Chorus]
Bm G
And yeah I'm afraid
D
But I'll follow you anyway
Bm G
When the blue finally came
D
It swallowed up everything

10.The Orange Grove

Song:The Orange Grove
Artist:The Wonder Years
Album:Sister Cities(2018)
Track:10
Key:D Major
Tuning:Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Intro]
Bm G

[Verse 1]
Bm
God, take me back to the orange grove
G
That I found deep in the desert
Bm
The air sweet as a miracle
G F#m
It can't survive but it grows and grows and grows
Bm
West Texas is dying slow
G
An oil rig in the sunset
Bm
The air is heavy and filled with smoke
G F#m A
There ain't no quit in the hands that built this home
G A
A dog barks in the distance
G
Rusted frames take root in the brush

[Chorus]
D
You'll watch it decay
Dmaj7 Em G Gmaj7
Lie through your teeth and say you'll resurrect a ghost
D Dmaj7 Bm A
The paper tigers you made then swore to keep away
Em G Gmaj7
You're a knife there at my throat
Bm G
God, take me back to the orange grove

[Verse 2]
Bm
Fall came quiet and sudden
G
They're smoking out of their storm doors
Bm
Work left town with the summer
G F#m
We're just trying to keep warm
Bm
That cough don't sound any better
G
Another month, trying to push through
Bm
Blood in your spit in the morning
G F#m A
Give a fake name at the emergency room
G A
There at the edge of losing everything
G
Taking desperate swings in the dark

[Chorus]
D
You'll watch it decay
Dmaj7 Em G Gmaj7
Lie through your teeth and say you'll resurrect a ghost
D Dmaj7 Bm A
The paper tigers you made then swore to keep away
Em G Gmaj7
You're a knife there at my throat

[Bridge]
Em D
When your mom got sick so slow
G
Did you carry the weight alone?
Em D
When the bills started to grow
G
Did you carry the weight alone?
Em D
When the bank came for your home
G
Did you carry the weight alone?
Em D
When you reap what they sow
G Gmaj7
Do you carry the weight alone?

[Chorus]
D
You'll watch it decay
F#min Bm A Em G Gmaj7
Lie through your teeth and say you'll resurrect a ghost
D Dmaj7 Bm A
The paper tigers you made then swore to keep away
Em G Gmaj7
You're a knife there at my throat
D G D G
God, take me back to the orange grove
Bm A D G D G

11.The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me

Song: The Ocean Grew Hands to Hold Me
Artist: The Wonder Years
Album: Sister Cities
Track: 11
Key: F Major
Tuning: Drop D
Tabbed by:Alec314

[Intro]
Am Bb Dm C

[Verse 1]
Am
I stopped making deals with God
Bb
Right around when you left
Dm
I said that I would start believing
C
If they made you well again
Dm
Guess they knew it was bullshit
Bb
Never hold up my end
F
All the walls are stained in your nicotine
C
I could feel closing in

[Verse 2]
Am
I heard somebody cry
Bb
I thought I was alone
Dm
I came to numb my lungs in the salt air
C
Let the breakers heal my bones
Dm Bb
I wish that the current would carry me home
F
I've been running for a decade now
C
And I think I'm ready to go
C
Oh, I'm ready to go
F Bb Dm C

[Verse 3]
Am
I stopped making deals with God
Bb
When the light finally died
Dm
I'm gonna guard what's left of the good in us
C
When the ash blocks out the sky
Dm
And hold you with my left hand
Bb
And ball up my right
F
And if the bastards come for both of us
C
I'll be right there by your side
C
I'm by your side
F Bb Dm C

[Chorus]
G
When I was in shambles
Bb
When I got too weak
F Bb
The ocean grew hands to hold me
G
When I was in shambles
Bb
When I got too weak
F Bb
The ocean grew hands to hold me

[Verse 4]
Am
I stopped blaming God
Bb
When you said you were sick
Dm
I learned to lean on the people who love me
C
When the sutures start to split
Dm Bb
I trust in the current to pull you back in
F
I miss everyone at once
C
But most of all, I miss the ocean

[Outro]
F Bb Dm C
F

Sister Cities

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