[NOTE: There are 2 guitars playing (like in most Coldplay
songs) *G1 indicates guitar 1,
which is the acoustic guitar playing rhythm,
*G2 is guitar2, the electric, which plays lead.]
Standard Tuning
Chords Used
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EADGBe
Fmaj7 (133210) [NOTE: The 1 on the E string is played
by putting your thumb around the neck
so it's on the E string.]
Am (x02210)
C (x32010)
Dm (xx0231)
G (320003)
Intro [NOTE: just *G2 playing at first (nice clean sound)
----- but then *G1 joins in]
Fmaj7 2 bars [NOTE: alternate on the Fmaj7 by lifting
your 1st + 2nd fingers off and hammering
them back on, so it looks like this (x33000)
Also *G1 does this at points in the song.]
Verse [NOTE: Guitar 2 strums the same chords
----- lightly in the background (clean sound again)]
*G1
Am C Fmaj7
Born sinking like stones, all that we've fought for.
Am C Fmaj7
Homes, places we've grown, all of us are done for.
Chorus
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*G1
Dm Am
We live in a beautiful world,
G
Yeah we do, yeah we do,
Dm Fmaj7
We live in a beautiful world.
[NOTE: Guitar 2 plays this over the "we live....world" bit]
*G2
e|---5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--7-7-7--8-8-8-8-8--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--
B|-------------------------------------------------------
G|-------------------------------------------------------
D|-------------------------------------------------------
A|-------------------------------------------------------
E|-------------------------------------------------------
[NOTE: After the last line Guitar 2 plays this over the Fmaj7]
*G2
e|---0-1-5-0-1-0----0-1-5-0-1-0--
B|-------------------------------
G|-------------------------------
D|-------------------------------
A|-------------------------------
E|-------------------------------
Verse (same chords and words)
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Chorus (guess what, same chords and words again)
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Solo (over verse chords)
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[NOTE: it's part piano, part guitar with a slight phaser or
flanger effect or something,
so i've tabbed it out just for guitar]
*G2
e|---0-3-1-0--0-3-1-0--------0-3-1-0--0-3-1-0h1-0----
B|--------------------3-1----------------------------
G|------------------------------------------------2--
D|---------------------------------------------------
A|---------------------------------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------------
Chorus (same again, suprise suprise)
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2nd solo bit (over verse chords) Played twice
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*G2
e|---s12--12--12--12--12--12--12----
B|------13--13--13--13--13--13--13--
G|----------------------------------
D|----------------------------------
A|----------------------------------
E|----------------------------------
e|---0-1-5-0-1-0---0-1-5-0-1-0--
B|------------------------------
G|------------------------------
D|------------------------------
A|------------------------------
E|------------------------------
Outro (both guitars play the chords (clean electric)
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Am C Fmaj7
Oh, all that I know, there's nothing here to run from.
Am C Fmaj7
Cause yeah, everybody here's got somebody to lean on.
[NOTE: last chord is strummed twice (just twice!)]
