21st Century Boy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[F](You wanna count it?)

[Verse 2]
He's just wan[Am]derin'[F]
[Dm]Got no place to go,
No place to [F]go.[Am][Em][F]
[Dm]Don't nobody know,
Nobody [F]knows [Am]him.[F]
But he [Am]knows [F]the world
[Dm]And his paintings show all of it's
[F]charms.

[Interlude 1]
[Am][F][Am][F][Dm][F]

[Verse 3]
[Bm]When he plays [Em]the [G]guitar
[Bm]He d[G]on't n[Cm]eed to be witty.
[Bm]He takes a[Em]ll hi[G]s sadne[Bm]ss
[F]Makes it [Cm]sound so pretty.
[Bm]People [G]clo[Bm]se the[G]ir
[Bm]eyes [G]when the[Cm]y listen.
[Bm]Suffer [G]the [Bm]moder[G]n [Em]world[G]
[Bm]with[G] him[Cm].
[G][F][Dm]

[Verse 4]
[F]
He went to [Am]the doctor
[F]Who gav[Dm]e him a prescription.
Gave him a prescrip[F]tion.[Am]
[F]He lost all of [Am]his fri[Em]ends
[Dm]Kept up his rhythm.
Kept his rhyth[F]m.[Am]
[F]He picked up the gui[Am]tar[Em]
[Dm]Tells it everything his tongue
can't [F]say.
He picked up the [Am]guitar
[F]And [Dm]he tells it everything his
tongue can't [Em]say.

[Verse 5]
[Bm]When he [G]plays [Bm]the guitar
[G]He don[Cm]'t need to be witty.
[Bm]He takes a[G]ll his s[Bm]adness
[Am]Makes it s[Cm]ound so pretty.
[Bm]People [Em]close [G]the[Em]ir
[Bm]eyes [G]when the[Cm]y listen.
[Bm]Suffer [G]the [Bm]moder[G]n worl[Em]d wi[G]th[Bm][F][Cm]

[Interlude 2]
him.
[G][F][Dm][Bb][F][Dm][F][Gm][Bb][Dm]
He sees people [F]walking

[Verse 6]
by
With their skateboards in their [Dm]eyes
And their [Gm]clothes that say
[Dm]“We're not alone.”
He sees the history [F]in their face,
History that they can't erase.
[Gm]It's to these lines

[Outro 1]
That he relates
[Bb][Gm][Dm][F][Dm][F][Bb][Gm][Dm]
[F][Gm][F][Bb][Gm][Dm][Gm][Dm]
[Dm][Dm]