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Pocketful Of Dreams

Billy Talent

MetalAdvanced for beginners7 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

GmDiagram coming soon
D××
CmDiagram coming soon
BbDiagram coming soon
F
Dm××
EbDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: 
 
Silence: Gm D Cm Bb D 
 
Distotion: Gm Cm  x2 
 
 
Verse 1: 
Gm        Cm 
  Vanities  are only charity 
Gm                Cm 
  And she makes donations  
at the Tiffany's 
Gm               F 
  Life is hard without a credit  
            Dm     Eb F 
card to get by get by 
Gm                   Cm 
  She sold her dreams  for security 
Gm              Cm 
  To a man that now she  
hardly ever sees 
Gm                 F 
  With a cold martini in her hand 
          Dm         Eb  F 
she don't mind don't mind 
 
 
 
Eb 
  So throw all your  
Gm        Eb 
luxuries aside 
You can't take them  
Gm                Eb 
with you when you die 
             Gm 
Still when I look into your 
Bb               D 
Eyes are full of dollar signs 
 
 
Chorus 1: 
   Gm 
Oh reach into a  
pocketful of dreams 
   D 
Oh now before they  
fall out of the seams 
   Cm 
Oh take a chance don't  
matter if you fail 
       Bb 
you're too scared to try 
          D 
cause you might break a nail oh 
 
 
Post Chorus: Gm--Cm-- x2 
 
 
Verse 2: 
Gm             Cm 
  If you design  a  
plastic happiness 
Gm 
  Then climb the social  
Cm 
ladder to the top my friend 
Gm                    F 
  And don't forget to thank the  
                   Dm    Eb  F 
piggy bank in the sky so high 
 
 
(Repeat Refrain) 
(Repeat Chorus 1 twice) 
 
 
Guitar Solo: Gm Dm Cm Bb D
 
Woah-oh-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh-oh 
 
 
Interlude:  
 
Silence: Gm Dm Cm Bb D 
 
 
Chorus 2: Silence 
   Gm 
Oh reach into a  
pocketful of dreams 
   D 
Oh now before they  
fall out of the seams 
   Cm 
Oh take a chance don't  
matter if you fail 
       Bb 
you're too scared to try 
          D 
cause you might break a nail oh 
 
 
(Repeat Chorus 1 twice) 
 
 
Outro: Gm 
          
 

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Chord set

Gm · D · Cm · Bb · F · Dm · Eb

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.