Flowers Where Your Face Should Be Chords
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These are the basic chords to the studio version of "Flowers Where Your Face Should Be," a new song off of Sister Cities by The Wonder Years.Was this info helpful?
| Difficulty: | intermediate |
|---|---|
| Tuning: | E A D G B E |
| Key: | D |
| Capo: | no capo |
Author mattmakuta [a] 84. 1 contributor total, last edit on Apr 25, 2018
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I like to play the G, C#m, Bm, and A a bit differently. Can be played many ways.
[Chords]
G - 3x023x
C#m - x40230
Bm - x20230
A - x02230
[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 D
And there were hydrangeas where your face should be
[Verse 3]
G D
The redwoods feel lonely and lunar and distant
G D
The sun comes in fragments through breaks in the trees
G D
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 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 (hold)
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Flowers Where Your Face Should Be – The Wonder Years
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On the right track.
Transpose a whole step up (+2) and tune to D standard.
Change D#m to B.
Shape those chords, and pick pmiapm x4 (x1 for first 4 chords of chorus) starting on the root, then change to the next chord.
Not sure what the first bridge chord should be.
The A chord changes between 2nd fret on the 2nd string (B) and open on the 2nd string (A). Should be very easy to hear when it's which.
End last chorus and outro with a strum on the A (be mindful of above line).
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