• Song:

    Speed of sound

  • Artist:

    Coldplay

  • Album:

    X And Y

INTRO

Asus4  Em7  Em7  D

VERSE 1

    Asus4             Em7
How long before I get in?

                              D
Before it starts, before I begin?

    Asus4             Em7
How long before you decide?

                              D
Before I know what it feels like?

      Asus4         Em7 
Where to, where do I go?

                                D
If you never try, you'll never know,

    Asus4             Em7  
How long do I have to climb?

                                   D
Up on the side of this mountain of mine?

INSTRUMENTAL PART

Asus4  Em7  Em7  D

VERSE 2

     Asus4            Em7
Look up, I look up at night

                                    D
Planets are moving at the speed of light

      Asus4         Em7
Climb up, up in the trees

                                           D
Every chance that you get is a chance you seize

    Asus4            Em7
How long am I gonna stand

                              D
With my head stuck under the sand

     Asus4              Em7                    
I'll start before I can stop

                                  D
Before I see things the right way up

PRE-CHORUS

 G        A 
  All that noise

               Bm7 
  And all that sound 

 G          A            Bm7
  All those places I got found

CHORUS

   G                       Bm7 
And birds go flying at the speed of sound

   D                      G
To show you how it all began

                           Bm7
Birds came flying from the underground

             F#m                         G
If you could see it then you'd understand

INSTRUMENTAL

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VERSE

 Asus4                    Em7
Ideas that you'll never find

                                  D 
All the inventors could never design

    Asus4                  Em7
The buildings that you put up

                        D
Japan and China all lit up

  Asus4                 Em7
A sign that I couldn't read

                           D
Or a light that I couldn't see

      Asus4                Em7
Some things you have to believe

                             D
Others are puzzles, puzzling me

PRE-CHORUS

 G         A
  All that noise

               Bm7
  And all that sound

 G         A             Bm7  
  All those places I got found

CHORUS

    G                      Bm7
And birds go flying at the speed of sound

   D                     G
To show you how it all began

                            Bm7 
Birds came flying from the underground

            F#m                     G 
If you could see it then you'd understand

            F#m                     G
Ah, when you see it then you'd understand

INSTRUMENTAL

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PRE-CHORUS

 G          A                       Bm7
  All those signs, I knew what they meant

                  E
  Some things you can't invent

 G        A                 Bm7        E
  Some get made and some get sent, ooh

CHORUS

    G                      Bm7
And birds go flying at the speed of sound

   D                  G
To show you how it all began

                           Bm7
Birds came flying from the underground

             F#m                    G
If you could see it then you'd understand

             F#m                    G                  
Ah, when you see it then you'll understand

ENDING

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