The Wonder Years – Teenage Parents (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
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Chords

Chords Used: B: x244xx Bb: x133xx A: x022xx E: 022100 E*: x799xx F#: x91111xx (11's not 1's) F#m:244222 G#: 466544 to make it a little less complex, you can play F# as F#m and E* as E [Intro] B Bb A E E F#m G# F#m [Verse I]
B              F#        A              E*
You climb six lonely sad stairs to your apartment

      E                 F#m          G#                 F#m
After another graveyard shift in the cold dull light of morning.

B             Bb             G#                  F#m
You walked in just in time to catch her as she's leaving

         E                F#m                G#            F#      
But the schedules and the conflicts kept the roof over our heads.
[Pre-Chorus]
    E              F#m
You said you were strong and naive and

B           F#                    E*
If you were scared, well, I would understand.

                           B               F#m
I don't think I would have had the guts to handle it.
[Chorus]
B      F#m       E             F#m
All we had were hand-me-downs.

B          F#m     E         F#m
And all we had was good will

        G#     A                 E*
And you always said it would get better.

                              B                       F#m
"When you're young and you're poor, they hang on your failures."

        G#     A                 E*
And you always said it would get better.
[Post-Chorus] B Bb A E E F#m G# F#m [Verse II]
B             F#m                G#            F#m                
We bought our first house at the advent of the 90s

  E             F#m                 G#             F#m
A Cape Cod on a busy street that we swore we'd fix eventually.

B         F#m  G#             F#m
Winter of '93, we got by with kerosene

  E              F#m            G#             F#m              E
A heater in the living room, we huddled around shivering and me

F#m              B
Trying to get to sleep.
F# E* My clothes will smell of smoke for weeks.
                      B
Just trying to get to sleep.

B
To sleep,

   F#m
To sleep...
[Chorus]
B      F#m       E             F#m
All we had were hand-me-downs.

B          F#m     E         F#m
And all we had was good will

        G#     A                 E*
And you always said it would get better.

                              B                       F#m
"When you're young and you're poor, they hang on your failures."

        G#     A                 E
And you always said it would get better.

                   B                       F#
I'm sick of seeing ghosts. I won't be here forever.
[Bridge] E* F# My mother wore a sundress on the day that she got married. E* F# They held the wedding in a backyard near the city. E* I was just one then, I would never remember it F# E* But I heard the voices and implications
G#                    F#m
Telling me who I could never be.
[Break]
B      F#       E*           B 
All we had were hand-me-downs.

E*  B      F#      B          F#   
And all we had was good will.
[Chorus]
B      F#m       E             F#m
All we had were hand-me-downs.

B          F#m     E         F#m
And all we had was good will

        G#     A                 E*
And you always said it would get better.

                              B                       F#m
"When you're young and you're poor, they hang on your failures."

        G#     A                 B      E* F#
And you always said it would get better.