Black and White People Chords
Black and White People by Matchbox Twenty is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Em, D5 and Cadd9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
VERSE 1:
G C G C
One more day down, Everybody has those days
G C G C
Where one soft sweet song is just enough to clear my head
In between "head" and the chord change is this on horns:
G C
Fall on real life, (fall on real life)
G C
Is anybody left here sane?
Em D5 Cadd9
And we’ll slide on over, the accept fate
G
Man it’s bound to be a powerful thing
G C
And if it’s just that you’re weak, can we talk about it?
G C
It’s gettin so damn creepy just nursing this
D5
Ghost of a chance
Cadd9
The fiction, the romance, and the Technicolor dreams
G C G C
Black and white people
VERSE 2:
G C
One boy headstrong
G C
He thinks everything here is just plain
G C G C
He’s pushed down so hard you can hear him start to sink
G C G
And it’s one last round of this petty conversation
C Em
You hold on boy, cuz you won’t go down like this
D5 Cadd9
You just roll on over and lay down till it’s more that you can take
CHORUS: same as last time
G C G C
So one more day down, everybody’s changing
G C D5
One soft sweet song is just enough to clear my....
Cadd9
My head
CHORUS: same as last time