Matchbox Twenty - Back 2 Good Chords & Tabs

 

Back 2 Good Chords & Tabs

Matchbox Twenty Chords & Tabs

Version: 1 Type: Chords

Back 2 Good Chords

   
The other submissions sound a little off in the second to last chorus as well as 
another part.  Try this.

Tuning: standard(EADGBe)

No capo

CHORDS:
      D    C   C9    G    A   Bm
e|----2----0----0----3----0----2------|
B|----3----1----3----3----2----3------|
G|----2----0----0----0----2----4------|
D|----0----2----2----0----2----4------|
A|----x----3----3----2----0---(2)-----|
E|----x----x----x----3----x----x------|

 (Riff 1)                             (Riff 2)
e|----------------------0-------------|------------------|
B|------3--------3--------3--------3--|----------3-------|
G|----2--------0-----------------0----|--------0---------|
D|--0--------2-------0---------2------|------0-----------|
A|---------3-----------------3--------|------------------|
E|------------------------------------|----3-------------|

  Riff 3                        Riff 4a+b (the reeds' part)
e|----2---0-------------2---3--|-a--3--------|-b--------10-------|
B|------3---3-------------3----|------3------|----7-8-10--7------|
G|------------2----------------|--------0----|--------------9-7--|
D|--0-----------0----0---------|-------------|-------------------|
A|-----------------------------|-------------|-------------------|
E|-----------------------------|-------------|-------------------|


INTRO:

(Riff 1)
D  C9  D  C9

(Riff 1)
D  C9  D  C9


VERSE 1:
D    C        D       C
it's nothing, it's so normal
                                    (Riff 2)
D        C            D       C      G
you just stand there, i could say so much
   (Riff 2)                                  
G                        G                 D  C  D  C
but i don't go there cuz i don't want to

D     C           D        C
i was thinkin if, you were lonely
                                          (Riff 2)
D     C        D              C            G
maybe we could leave here and no one would know
(Riff 2)                              
G                   G                   D        C  D  C
at least not to the point that we would think so


CHORUS:

G        A                           D                     G
everyone here knows everyone here is thinkin bout somebody else
G                    A             D A  Bm         Bm A G
well it's best if we all keep this under our heads
G          A                        D                 G
i couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way i do
              (Riff 4a)
G                      G
but i'm lonely now,    and i don't know how
              (Riff 1)            (Riff 1)
               D  C         D  C   D C D C
to get it back      to good

[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/matchbox_twenty/back_2_good_crd.html ]
VERSE 2:
(Riff 1)
D    C                D   C
this don't mean that, you own me well,
(Riff 1)                                 (Riff 2)
D    C              D  C                  G
this ain't no good, in fact it's phony as hell
(Riff 2)                              (Riff 1) 
G                     G                 D  C   D  C
but things worked out just like you wanted to
(Riff 1)
D      C          D         C
if you see me out you don't know me
(Riff 1)                                  (Riff 2)
D      C               D      C            G
try to turn your head, try to give me some room
(Riff 2)                         (Riff 1)
G             G                   D C  D C
to figure out just what i'm gonna do


CHORUS:

G            A                            D                   G
cuz everyone here hates everyone here for doin just like they do
G                A             D A  Bm        Bm A G
and it's best if all keep this quiet instead
G          A                           D                 G
i couldn't tell, why everyone here was doin me like they do
             (Riff 4a)
G                     G
but i'm sorry now,    and i don't know how
             (Riff 1)        (Riff 1)
              D   C     D C   D C D C
to get it back to good


CHORUS:
Em        A                           D                   G
everyone here is wondering what it's like to be with somebody else
                       G               A 
and everyone here's to blame, everyone here
                      D               
gets caught up in the pleasure of the pain
                       Em               A  
yea well everyone here hides shades of shame
        D                       G     
yea but lookin inside we're the same, we're the same
G                        G                   
and we're all grown now, but we don't know how
         (Riff 1)        (Riff 1)
G             D  C        D C D C
to get it back    to good


CHORUS:

G        A                           D                     G
everyone here knows everyone here is thinkin bout somebody else
G                    A             D A      Bm                     Bm A G
well it's best if we all keep this under our heads, hell our heads yea
G          A                        D                 G
i couldn't tell, if anyone here was feeling the way i do
              (Riff 4a)                 (Riff 4b)
G                      G
but it's over now,     and i don't know how
                                        (Riff 3)
G                                        D  C
yes it's over now there's no getting back    to good


OUTRO:

(Riff 3) x3
D  C     x6

End on D