Real World Chords
Real World by Matchbox Twenty is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A#. It uses the chords Bb, F, Gm, G, Eb, C and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Bb F Gm F Bb F Gm F
I wonder what it's like to be the rainmaker
Bb F Gm F Bb F Gm F
I wonder what it's like to know I made the rain
Bb Gm Bb
I'd store it in boxes with little yellow tags on everyone
G Eb
And you can come and see them when I'm...done, when I'm done
(as first verse)
I wonder what it's like to be a super hero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown
>From some other planet, I get this funky high on yellow sun
Boy I bet my friends will all be...stunned, they're stunned
Bb Gm F
Straight up, what did you hope to learn about here
Bb Gm F
If I were someone else, would this all fall apart
Bb C F
Strange, where were you, when we started this gig,
Bb Gm F
I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me
(second guitar repeats a tone on the 13th fret on the high E)
(as first verse)
I wonder what it's like to be the head honcho
I wonder what I'd do if they all did just what I said
I'd shout out an order, I think we're out of this man get me some
Boy don't make me wanna change my...tone, my tone
(chorus)
Gm F Bb Bb
Please don't change, please don't break
Gm F Bb Bb
The only thing that seems to work at all is you
Gm F Bb Bb
Please don't change, at all from me
to you, and you to me Eb
(chorus)