The Wonder Years – The Devil In My Bloodstream (Guitar)

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

This is my first tab/chord, the other ones on here didn't sound right so I made my own. It's a half step down, like most of The Wonder Years songs. Verse:
                      D
We wiped out all the Buffalo

                            Bm
Around the turn of the last century,

            G
And so it's factories and sawgrass,

                                 A
Wheat fields and asphalt laid in front of me.

                         D
The Midwest feels like a hollow place

                             Bm
That we filled with love and industry.

          G
And we're staring at the frozen ground in Goodwill suits,

A
Silent as the pastor reads the eulogy.
Prechorus(play chords arpegiated):
     D          A           Bm     A      G
Well I wanted to see just a little bit of everything.

           A
Let me be.

Chorus:             D        G
Two blackbirds on a highway sign

                Bm                A
Are laughing at me at four in the morning.

                         D      G
They played the war drum out of time

           Bm                   A   
So I'm not sure where I've been marching.

                Bm               D
I wanna be strong,

             G
But it's not easy anymore.

               D            A  G
I'm hoping I'm wrong.
Verse 2:
                   D
It's sixteen hours straight to home

                        Bm
From the heart of North Missouri,

         G
And so I searched through my great-grandpop's memoirs

                    A
For the devil in my bloodstream.

                       D
Depression grabbed his throat

                               Bm
And choked the life out of him slowly.

             G
I've got the same blood coursing through my veins

                       A
And it'll come for me eventually.
Prechorus 2:
                       D
I bet I'd be a fucking coward.

                         Bm
I bet I'd never have the guts for war,

       G
'Cause I can't spend another month away from here.

      A
These frantic rest stop phone calls don't get answered anymore.

    D              A               Bm     A    G
But I, I wanted to know if I could please come home.

               A
So let me know.

                    D        G
Two blackbirds on a highway sign

                Bm                A
Are laughing at me at four in the morning.

                         D      G
They played the war drum out of time

       Bm                       A   
So I'm not sure where I've been marching.

               Bm               D
I wanna be strong,

             G
But it's not easy anymore.

               D            A  G
I'm hoping I'm wrong.
(palm muted G powerchord) I'm hoping I'm wrong. Bridge:
D                        A
I know how it feels to be

    G
At war with a world
That never loved me.
D                        A
I know how it feels to be

    G
At war with a world
That never loved me. Chorus 3:
                    D        G
Two blackbirds on a highway sign

                Bm                A
Are laughing at me at four in the morning.

                         D      G
They played the war drum out of time

       Bm                       A   
So I'm not sure where I've been marching.

           Bm     D     G
I wanna be strong.

             D      A
I wanna be strong

             G
But it's not easy anymore.