Bad Books – Wheel Well Piano & Ukulele Chord Progression

This is the chord progression of Wheel Well by Bad Books on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

[Verse 1]
F                   C                          G                   F
The birds on my stoop, they don’t know the words
F                   C                   G                   F
For the pain in my tooth, or for other birds
F                   C                   G                   C                   G
The clouds they cut through on my way to work
F                                     G
And I do, what’s that worth?

[Verse 2]
F                   C                   G                   F
A name for all things, except for the cure
F                   C                   G                   F
To the sadness that sings, every night at your door
F                   C        G        C      G         F
At every door of every restless soul
F                   G
It’s all we all know

[Chorus]
C       G              F                   C
No peace, no calm, no coasting
F                   G                   C
No ‘There but for the grace of God, go I’
F                   C                   F                   C
We’re all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
F                   G                   Am
As one goes, so goes everybody else
F                                                       C
Around the wheel well, around the wheel well

[Verse 3]
F                   C                   G                   F
If the people you meet, are mostly you in disguise
F                                     C                   G                   F
Want what you want, something good in their lives
F                   C                   G                   C                   G         F
Is that a socialist song? An invocation of Christ, I guess
F                                     G
It’s whatever you like

[Chorus]
C                   G                   F     C
No peace, no calm, no coasting
F                   G                   C
No ‘There but for the grace of God, go I’
F                   C                   F                   C
We’re all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
F                   G                   Am
As one goes, so goes everybody else
F                   C                                     G
Around the wheel well, around the wheel well

[Bridge]
F                   F                   C
You left your body fading on your couch
G                   C                   G                   F
And felt I just might make it up
F/F#                                     G
Before I’m wasting underground

[Chorus 2]
C     G                   F                   C
So grieve your life spent hiding
F                   G                   C
The hours no one ever hands it back
F                                                       C
What’s the use? Who kept score?
F                   C
Medieval school yard tug of war
Am                   G                   F
No architect, we built the cage ourselves

[Chorus]
C G F C
No peace, no calm, no coasting
F G C
No ‘There but for the grace of God, go I’
F C F C
We’re all roped at the wrist, circle chains, hers and his
F G Am
As one goes, so goes everybody else
F C
Around the wheel well, around the wheel well
F C G F
Around the wheel well, around the wheel well

[Outro]
No one’s alone or it’s the one thing we are
Beasts with big brains, computers with hearts
Obsessed with control, or frightened and power starved
It will get you so far