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I Wanna Get Better Ukulele

Bleachers

RockAdvanced for beginners6 chords

How to play it

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

E
Bsus4Diagram coming soon
A×
BsusDiagram coming soon
F#Diagram coming soon
C×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: E Bsus4 A Bsus4 (2x) 
 
Couplet 1 
E                          Bsus4 
Hey I hear the voice of a preacher from the back room 
 
A                      Bsus4 
Calling my name and I follow just to find you 
 
E                          Bsus4              A                 Bsus4 
I trace the faith to a broken down television and put on the weather 
 
E                              Bsus4 
And i've trained myself to give up on the past 
 
A                               Bsus4 
Cause I frozen time between hearses and caskets 
 
E                       Bsus4 
Lost control when I panicked at the acid test 
 
A               Bsus4 
I wanna get better 
 
E                            Bsus4                                A 
While my friends were getting high and chasing girls down parkway lines I was 
 
   Bsus4 
losing my mind 
 
E                                     Bsus4                     A     Bsus4 
Cause the love the love the love the love the love that I gave wasted on a nice face 
 
E              Bsus4                     A                            Bsus4 
In a blaze of fear I put a helmet on a helmet counting seconds through the night and got 
carried away 
 
N.C. 
So now I'm standing on the overpass screaming at the cars Hey I wanna get better 
 
 
E        Bsus4         A          Bsus4          E 
I didn't know I was lonely til I saw your face 
 
             Bsus4    A               Bsus4               E 
I wanna get better better better better I wanna get better 
 
E          Bsus4        A           Bsus4         E 
I didn't know I was broken til I wanted to change 
 
             Bsus4    A               Bsus4               E 
I wanna get better better better better I wanna get better 
 
Couplet 2 
E                                Bsus4 
I go up to my room and there's girls on the ceiling 
 
A                             Bsus4 
Cut out their pictures and I chase that feeling 
 
E                                Bsus4 
of an eighteen year old who didn't know what loss was 
 
A                   Bsus4 
Now I'm a stranger 
 
E                           Bsus 
And I miss the days of a life still permanent 
 
A                 Bsus4                     E 
Mourn the years before I got carried away 
 
N.C. 
So now I'm staring at the interstate screaming at myself hey I wanna get better 
 
 
E        Bsus4         A          Bsus4          E 
I didn't know I was lonely til I saw your face 
 
             Bsus4    A               Bsus4               E 
I wanna get better better better better I wanna get better 
 
E          Bsus4        A           Bsus4         E 
I didn't know I was broken til I wanted to change 
 
             Bsus4    A               Bsus4               E 
I wanna get better better better better I wanna get better 
 
Bridge 
F#                                   Bsus4 
Cause I'm sleeping in the back of a taxi 
 
                                 F# 
I'm screaming from my bedroom window 
 
                    Bsus4 
Even if it's gonna kill me 
 
E Bsus4 A Bsus4 (4x) 
 
E                      Bsus4 
Woke up this morning early before my family 
 
A                        Bsus4 
From this dream where she was trying to show me 
 
E                Bsus4               A                   Bsus4 
How a life can move from the darkness she said to get better 
 
   E                       Bsus4                     A                  Bsus4 
So I put a bullet where I shoulda out a helmet and I crash my car cause I wanna get 
carried away 
 
E                                         Bsus4              N.C. 
That's why I'm standing on the overpass screaming at myself hey I wanna get better 
 
 
E        Bsus4         A          Bsus4          E 
I didn't know I was lonely til I saw your face 
 
             Bsus4    A               Bsus4               E 
I wanna get better better better better I wanna get better 
 
E          Bsus4        A           Bsus4         E 
I didn't know I was broken til I wanted to change 
 
             Bsus4    A               Bsus4               E 
I wanna get better better better better I wanna get better 
 
Outro 
E Bsus4 A Bsus4 
          
 

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Chord set

E · Bsus4 · A · Bsus · F# · C

Practice tip

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