The Wonder Years – My Life As Rob Gordon (Guitar)

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Chords

The verses and choruses are quite easy and straightforward, but the little progression that repeats throughout (D-Bm-A-A-B5-G5) is a little tricky until you figure out the timing. Practice it a bit and you'll get it. Power chords sound okay, but I think it sounds much better if you open up to full chords, except the B5 and G5 I noted, and just palm mute and strum alternately as the song dictates. D - xx0232 Bm - x24432 F#m - 244222 G - 320033 A - x02220 B5 - x244xx G5 - 355xxx [Verse 1]
D              Bm                    F#m
Kelly says that at the end of each relationship

                        G                               
The boy starts quoting lyrics from that Movielife song

D              Bm                              F#m
And my mom says there's no songs with her name in them

                      G
Except one about a crackhead in Janie's Got a Gun
[Verse 2]
D              Bm                        F#m
Well Matt says, when I mentioned him in Bar Bands

                       G 
Kids started asking questions - it got weird 

           D                       Bm
Kinda quick, and I had a dream that

                           F#m                 G
We named a kid we never had after Hannah Hold On

                             F#m  G
And I haven't listened since

                        F#m   G  A
'Cause it tears me to pieces
[Chorus]
D                       G            D
Someone keeps putting on all of the sad songs

                 G
I keep singing along

     Bm                     A
The jukebox turns and I'm gone

                    F#m
I poked in all my quarters

                 G       A                 D      Bm A  A B5 G5
Looking for the perfect swan song to walk out on
[Verse 3]
D               Bm                      F#m
Stevie said that if I woke up feeling hopeless

                                 G
That I should think about it different, that I had it all wrong       

D                 Bm                    F#m
It's not the end if you call it a new beginning

                        G                              F#m
Plus, it's a chance to write some bitter fucking love songs

                             G                              F#m
I heard Quentin belt the notes to some words that Alex wrote

              G
About dying alone

        A               Bm
And I felt sort of whole
[Verse 4]
Bm                              A                 G
It takes a fucked up head to think about dying alone

                         F#m
When you're in you're twenties

                           Bm
So I'm glad it's not just me

Bm                             F#m                G      A
It takes a fucked up head to think about dying alone already
[Chorus]
D                       G            D
Someone keeps putting on all of the sad songs

                 G
I keep singing along

     Bm                     A
The jukebox turns and I'm gone

                    F#m
I poked in all my quarters

                 G       A                 D      Bm A  A B5 G5    
Looking for the perfect swan song to walk out on
[Interlude] D Bm A A B5 G5 [Bridge]
D Bm A A B5 G5                 D Bm A  
Someeeeoneeeeee keeps putting on 

A B5 G5
the sad songs

D Bm A A B5 G5                 D Bm A 
Someeeeoneeeeee keeps putting on 

A B5 G5      A
the sad songs

D              G               D      G       
Someeeeeoneeeee keeps putting on the sad songs
[Chorus]
D                     G              D
Someone keeps putting on all of the sad songs

                 G
I keep singing along

     Bm                    A
The jukebox turns and I'm gone

                   F#m
I poked in all my quarters

                 G       A                 D
Looking for the perfect swan song to walk out on