Chords for BoyWithUke “Understand” Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified
Tempo:
84.7 bpm
Chords used:
D
A
Em
E
C#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I'm boy with uke.
Uke as in ukulele.
I don't have the ukulele right now, but I make music with the ukulele
on my iPad in [Em] GarageBand.
I don't know.
I guess that's it.
I'm just a boy with a ukulele.
[E] [Em]
[N] As with a lot of my songs,
Understand started with girls.
As I was like writing it, it started like developing into a song more about like my past
boy with uke lore.
Like some of it was a result of like
relationships I've had.
Not just with girls, but like with like family, friends, stuff like that.
Girl, I hope you understand I wanted to hold your hand, but I can't wanted to be your man back then.
And you knew I fell for you, but you just broke my heart in two.
I was sad, mad, and broken on my bed,
hoping I'd get rid of all the voices in my head.
I don't have literal voices in my head,
but I do have like, I tend to think that like it's very self-hate.
It's very like self-loathing.
Like I always have this thing in my head where it's like, oh like you're a piece of shit.
Like
fuck you.
You're so bad at everything.
That type of thing.
I was opening a packet of an undeveloped med when I was met with a prescription of a bullet made a letter when I woke
up in an hour in a pool of mouth sweat.
I said I swear to God I'll never even try to sleep again.
So instead I took my pen and started writing evidence.
So when I started making sense found that I had reached the end.
Oh, I'm upset.
I have no friends.
You want to bet?
You're just pretend.
You're just a peck of fire within the lines of writing.
You're not shit.
I started journaling, like writing my feelings every day and like that helped me a bit.
Like I started to realize like, oh these thoughts I have are not normal.
I am not a piece of shit.
I fell back into depression and all these suicidal thoughts.
I had started talking to a like a psychologist.
I thought, oh like all I got to do is talk to a psychologist and I'll be like better just like that.
But it was not the case.
The second chorus is like part of the same story, but it's a different chapter.
It's about a different person.
This person I actually didn't like have a romantic relationship with.
It was more so of like a yearning type of thing.
Like I want to.
Crying is like a powerful emotion.
And I'm a very emotional person.
Back in high school, I had a lot of like pent up emotions, angst, you know, puberty.
And that's when I started making songs around sophomore year.
So that is a reference Josh Dunn and Tyler Joseph from 21 Pilots.
It's just kind of saying like, oh, I listened to 21 Pilots during this time.
Oh, the sun don't shine and skies turn gray.
I feel it coursing through my veins.
I've said before I'm not okay, but you don't listen anyway.
You know I tried, you turned away.
Straight up like rats in my face.
You fucked my life, ruined my day.
But you don't know, so I'll say.
When I tell someone how I feel and they brush it off as like, oh, okay.
They don't try to understand.
It like can upset me more than the other person may know.
Really like messes me up.
And the other person, they're not even like aware that it is happening, which is kind
of my fault.
Should be a better communicator, but really messes up my day.
I'm going to be honest.
I don't know what a bridge is.
I might be completely transparent with you.
I'm sorry.
A bridge is a section of a song that's intended to provide contrast to the rest of the composition.
Yeah, that part's a bridge.
Girl, I hope you understand.
I wanted to hold your hand, but I can't.
Wanted to be your man back then.
And too bad I know I can't wake up because I've lost my way and you don't give a fuck about me.
This could be a dream.
I can't see the things that you see, so please, oh.
I'm sort of accepting like, oh, like I'm not going to be able to change who I am.
Maybe this is like in my dreams, like my melatonin vivid dreams.
It's just questioning a lot of things like entering a psychosis.
I brought you songs, now you're dead to me.
Effectively removed yourself outside my dreams.
I like removed the past traumas out of my like dream.
Boy With U has woken up and has come to terms with his past.
[D] [Em] So actually I have my first ever recorded song.
First to ever hear this.
[D] [C#m]
[A] [E] [D] [C#m]
[Em] I'm trying to find my room.
[F#m] Excuse me.
Told [C#m] myself that I didn't need it.
Then only I [E] tried to [F#m] reason with myself.
[E]
[A] This part's good.
[D] [F#] I began [C#] to trick [A] dark times with no peach limes.
For these no time for bus [D] rides with [F#m] sad [C#] rhymes.
So I had [A] to go rock on the sad dark times.
I passed my quad with [D] Fortnite.
Wait, what?
No, for real.
[C#] That's what got me [A] through this ordeal.
Oh my God.
Just had an epiphany.
[D] Maybe [C#] she's listening. Yeah.
Uke as in ukulele.
I don't have the ukulele right now, but I make music with the ukulele
on my iPad in [Em] GarageBand.
I don't know.
I guess that's it.
I'm just a boy with a ukulele.
[E] [Em]
[N] As with a lot of my songs,
Understand started with girls.
As I was like writing it, it started like developing into a song more about like my past
boy with uke lore.
Like some of it was a result of like
relationships I've had.
Not just with girls, but like with like family, friends, stuff like that.
Girl, I hope you understand I wanted to hold your hand, but I can't wanted to be your man back then.
And you knew I fell for you, but you just broke my heart in two.
I was sad, mad, and broken on my bed,
hoping I'd get rid of all the voices in my head.
I don't have literal voices in my head,
but I do have like, I tend to think that like it's very self-hate.
It's very like self-loathing.
Like I always have this thing in my head where it's like, oh like you're a piece of shit.
Like
fuck you.
You're so bad at everything.
That type of thing.
I was opening a packet of an undeveloped med when I was met with a prescription of a bullet made a letter when I woke
up in an hour in a pool of mouth sweat.
I said I swear to God I'll never even try to sleep again.
So instead I took my pen and started writing evidence.
So when I started making sense found that I had reached the end.
Oh, I'm upset.
I have no friends.
You want to bet?
You're just pretend.
You're just a peck of fire within the lines of writing.
You're not shit.
I started journaling, like writing my feelings every day and like that helped me a bit.
Like I started to realize like, oh these thoughts I have are not normal.
I am not a piece of shit.
I fell back into depression and all these suicidal thoughts.
I had started talking to a like a psychologist.
I thought, oh like all I got to do is talk to a psychologist and I'll be like better just like that.
But it was not the case.
The second chorus is like part of the same story, but it's a different chapter.
It's about a different person.
This person I actually didn't like have a romantic relationship with.
It was more so of like a yearning type of thing.
Like I want to.
Crying is like a powerful emotion.
And I'm a very emotional person.
Back in high school, I had a lot of like pent up emotions, angst, you know, puberty.
And that's when I started making songs around sophomore year.
So that is a reference Josh Dunn and Tyler Joseph from 21 Pilots.
It's just kind of saying like, oh, I listened to 21 Pilots during this time.
Oh, the sun don't shine and skies turn gray.
I feel it coursing through my veins.
I've said before I'm not okay, but you don't listen anyway.
You know I tried, you turned away.
Straight up like rats in my face.
You fucked my life, ruined my day.
But you don't know, so I'll say.
When I tell someone how I feel and they brush it off as like, oh, okay.
They don't try to understand.
It like can upset me more than the other person may know.
Really like messes me up.
And the other person, they're not even like aware that it is happening, which is kind
of my fault.
Should be a better communicator, but really messes up my day.
I'm going to be honest.
I don't know what a bridge is.
I might be completely transparent with you.
I'm sorry.
A bridge is a section of a song that's intended to provide contrast to the rest of the composition.
Yeah, that part's a bridge.
Girl, I hope you understand.
I wanted to hold your hand, but I can't.
Wanted to be your man back then.
And too bad I know I can't wake up because I've lost my way and you don't give a fuck about me.
This could be a dream.
I can't see the things that you see, so please, oh.
I'm sort of accepting like, oh, like I'm not going to be able to change who I am.
Maybe this is like in my dreams, like my melatonin vivid dreams.
It's just questioning a lot of things like entering a psychosis.
I brought you songs, now you're dead to me.
Effectively removed yourself outside my dreams.
I like removed the past traumas out of my like dream.
Boy With U has woken up and has come to terms with his past.
[D] [Em] So actually I have my first ever recorded song.
First to ever hear this.
[D] [C#m]
[A] [E] [D] [C#m]
[Em] I'm trying to find my room.
[F#m] Excuse me.
Told [C#m] myself that I didn't need it.
Then only I [E] tried to [F#m] reason with myself.
[E]
[A] This part's good.
[D] [F#] I began [C#] to trick [A] dark times with no peach limes.
For these no time for bus [D] rides with [F#m] sad [C#] rhymes.
So I had [A] to go rock on the sad dark times.
I passed my quad with [D] Fortnite.
Wait, what?
No, for real.
[C#] That's what got me [A] through this ordeal.
Oh my God.
Just had an epiphany.
[D] Maybe [C#] she's listening. Yeah.
Key:
D
A
Em
E
C#
D
A
Em
I'm boy with uke.
Uke as in ukulele.
I don't have the ukulele right now, but I make music with the ukulele
on my iPad in [Em] GarageBand.
I don't know.
I guess that's it.
I'm just a boy with a ukulele.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [N] As with a lot of my songs,
Understand started with girls.
As I was like writing it, it started like developing into a song more about like my past
boy with uke lore.
Like some of it was a result of like
relationships I've had.
Not just with girls, but like with like family, friends, stuff like that.
Girl, I hope you understand I wanted to hold your hand, but I can't wanted to be your man back then.
_ And you knew I fell for you, but you just broke my heart in two.
I was sad, mad, and broken on my bed,
hoping I'd get rid of all the voices in my head.
I don't have literal voices in my head,
but I do have like, I tend to think that like it's very self-hate.
It's very like self-loathing.
Like I always have this thing in my head where it's like, oh like you're a piece of shit.
Like
fuck you.
You're so bad at everything.
That type of thing.
I was opening a packet of an undeveloped med when I was met with a prescription of a bullet made a letter when I woke
up in an hour in a pool of mouth sweat.
I said I swear to God I'll never even try to sleep again.
So instead I took my pen and started writing evidence.
So when I started making sense found that I had reached the end.
Oh, I'm upset.
I have no friends.
You want to bet?
You're just pretend.
You're just a peck of fire within the lines of writing.
You're not shit.
I started journaling, like writing my feelings every day and like that helped me a bit.
Like I started to realize like, oh these thoughts I have are not normal.
I am not a piece of shit. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I fell back into depression and all these suicidal thoughts.
I had started talking to a like a psychologist.
I thought, oh like all I got to do is talk to a psychologist and I'll be like better just like that.
But it was not the case. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The second chorus is like part of the same story, but it's a different chapter.
It's about a different person.
This person I actually didn't like have a romantic relationship with.
It was more so of like a yearning type of thing.
Like I want to. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Crying is like a powerful emotion.
And I'm a very emotional person.
Back in high school, I had a lot of like pent up emotions, angst, you know, puberty.
And that's when I started making songs around sophomore year. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So that is a reference Josh Dunn and Tyler Joseph from 21 Pilots.
It's just kind of saying like, oh, I listened to 21 Pilots during this time.
Oh, the sun don't shine and skies turn gray.
I feel it coursing through my veins.
I've said before I'm not okay, but you don't listen anyway.
You know I tried, you turned away.
Straight up like rats in my face.
You fucked my life, ruined my day.
But you don't know, so I'll say.
When I tell someone how I feel and they brush it off as like, oh, okay.
They don't try to understand.
It like can upset me more than the other person may know.
Really like messes me up.
And the other person, they're not even like aware that it is happening, which is kind
of my fault.
Should be a better communicator, but really messes up my day. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'm going to be honest.
I don't know what a bridge is.
_ I might be completely transparent with you.
I'm sorry.
A bridge is a section of a song that's intended to provide contrast to the rest of the composition.
Yeah, that part's a bridge.
_ _ Girl, I hope you understand.
I wanted to hold your hand, but I can't.
Wanted to be your man back then. _
And too bad I know I can't wake up because I've lost my way and you don't give a fuck about me.
This could be a dream.
I can't see the things that you see, so please, oh.
I'm sort of accepting like, oh, like I'm not going to be able to change who I am.
Maybe this is like in my dreams, like my melatonin vivid dreams.
It's just questioning a lot of things like entering _ a _ _ psychosis.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I brought you songs, now you're dead to me.
Effectively removed yourself outside my dreams.
I like removed the past traumas out of my like dream.
Boy With U has woken up and has come to terms with his past.
[D] _ [Em] _ So actually I have my first ever recorded song.
First to ever hear this.
[D] _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [Em] I'm trying to find my room.
[F#m] Excuse me.
Told [C#m] myself that I didn't need it.
Then only I [E] tried to [F#m] reason with myself.
[E] _
_ [A] _ This part's good.
[D] [F#] I began [C#] to trick [A] dark times with no peach limes.
For these no time for bus [D] rides with [F#m] sad [C#] rhymes.
So I had [A] to go rock on the sad dark times.
I passed my quad with [D] Fortnite.
Wait, what?
No, for real.
[C#] That's what got me [A] through this ordeal.
Oh my God.
Just had an epiphany.
[D] Maybe [C#] she's listening. Yeah.
Uke as in ukulele.
I don't have the ukulele right now, but I make music with the ukulele
on my iPad in [Em] GarageBand.
I don't know.
I guess that's it.
I'm just a boy with a ukulele.
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [N] As with a lot of my songs,
Understand started with girls.
As I was like writing it, it started like developing into a song more about like my past
boy with uke lore.
Like some of it was a result of like
relationships I've had.
Not just with girls, but like with like family, friends, stuff like that.
Girl, I hope you understand I wanted to hold your hand, but I can't wanted to be your man back then.
_ And you knew I fell for you, but you just broke my heart in two.
I was sad, mad, and broken on my bed,
hoping I'd get rid of all the voices in my head.
I don't have literal voices in my head,
but I do have like, I tend to think that like it's very self-hate.
It's very like self-loathing.
Like I always have this thing in my head where it's like, oh like you're a piece of shit.
Like
fuck you.
You're so bad at everything.
That type of thing.
I was opening a packet of an undeveloped med when I was met with a prescription of a bullet made a letter when I woke
up in an hour in a pool of mouth sweat.
I said I swear to God I'll never even try to sleep again.
So instead I took my pen and started writing evidence.
So when I started making sense found that I had reached the end.
Oh, I'm upset.
I have no friends.
You want to bet?
You're just pretend.
You're just a peck of fire within the lines of writing.
You're not shit.
I started journaling, like writing my feelings every day and like that helped me a bit.
Like I started to realize like, oh these thoughts I have are not normal.
I am not a piece of shit. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I fell back into depression and all these suicidal thoughts.
I had started talking to a like a psychologist.
I thought, oh like all I got to do is talk to a psychologist and I'll be like better just like that.
But it was not the case. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The second chorus is like part of the same story, but it's a different chapter.
It's about a different person.
This person I actually didn't like have a romantic relationship with.
It was more so of like a yearning type of thing.
Like I want to. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Crying is like a powerful emotion.
And I'm a very emotional person.
Back in high school, I had a lot of like pent up emotions, angst, you know, puberty.
And that's when I started making songs around sophomore year. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So that is a reference Josh Dunn and Tyler Joseph from 21 Pilots.
It's just kind of saying like, oh, I listened to 21 Pilots during this time.
Oh, the sun don't shine and skies turn gray.
I feel it coursing through my veins.
I've said before I'm not okay, but you don't listen anyway.
You know I tried, you turned away.
Straight up like rats in my face.
You fucked my life, ruined my day.
But you don't know, so I'll say.
When I tell someone how I feel and they brush it off as like, oh, okay.
They don't try to understand.
It like can upset me more than the other person may know.
Really like messes me up.
And the other person, they're not even like aware that it is happening, which is kind
of my fault.
Should be a better communicator, but really messes up my day. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'm going to be honest.
I don't know what a bridge is.
_ I might be completely transparent with you.
I'm sorry.
A bridge is a section of a song that's intended to provide contrast to the rest of the composition.
Yeah, that part's a bridge.
_ _ Girl, I hope you understand.
I wanted to hold your hand, but I can't.
Wanted to be your man back then. _
And too bad I know I can't wake up because I've lost my way and you don't give a fuck about me.
This could be a dream.
I can't see the things that you see, so please, oh.
I'm sort of accepting like, oh, like I'm not going to be able to change who I am.
Maybe this is like in my dreams, like my melatonin vivid dreams.
It's just questioning a lot of things like entering _ a _ _ psychosis.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I brought you songs, now you're dead to me.
Effectively removed yourself outside my dreams.
I like removed the past traumas out of my like dream.
Boy With U has woken up and has come to terms with his past.
[D] _ [Em] _ So actually I have my first ever recorded song.
First to ever hear this.
[D] _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ [Em] I'm trying to find my room.
[F#m] Excuse me.
Told [C#m] myself that I didn't need it.
Then only I [E] tried to [F#m] reason with myself.
[E] _
_ [A] _ This part's good.
[D] [F#] I began [C#] to trick [A] dark times with no peach limes.
For these no time for bus [D] rides with [F#m] sad [C#] rhymes.
So I had [A] to go rock on the sad dark times.
I passed my quad with [D] Fortnite.
Wait, what?
No, for real.
[C#] That's what got me [A] through this ordeal.
Oh my God.
Just had an epiphany.
[D] Maybe [C#] she's listening. Yeah.