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GUITAR CHORDS

Chasing Cars

Snow Patrol
Easy songs Rock & alternative 90s & 2000s Slow & emotional
KeyA
Capo—
LevelEasy
Transpose A 0
Text
Chord sheet
Chords are positioned above the lyric change point

Chords

A xx79xx
E/G# xx69xx
DDsus2)
 

Intro

A
e|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|
G|---9---9---9---9-|---9---9---9---9-|
D|-7---7---7---7---|-7---7---7---7---|
A|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|
 

Verse 1

AE/G#DA
We'll do it all, everything, on our own.
AE/G#DA
We don't need anything, or anyone.
 

Chorus

AE/G#
If I lay here, if I just lay here
Dmaj7A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
 

Verse 2

AE/G#DA
I don't quite know how to say how I feel
AE/G#DA
Those three words, are said too much, they're not enough.
 

Chorus

AE/G#
If I lay here, if I just lay here
Dmaj7A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
AE/G#
Forget what we're told, before we get too old
Dmaj7A
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.
 

Verse 3

AE/G#DA
Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads.
AE/G#DA
I need your grace to remind me, to find my own.
 

Chorus

AE/G#
If I lay here, if I just lay here
Dmaj7A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
AE/G#
Forget what we're told, before we get too old
Dmaj7A
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.
 
AE/G#
All that I am, all that I ever was
Dmaj7A
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
AE/G#
I don't know where, confused about how as well
Dmaj7A
just know that these things will never change for us at all.
 

Outro

AE/G#
If I lay here, if I just lay here
Dmaj7
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
 

Outro

A
e|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|
G|---9---9---9---9-|---9---9---9---9-|
D|-7---7---7---7---|-7---7---7---7---|
A|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|
End

How to play Chasing Cars chords

This Chordsurf arrangement of Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol is presented in the key of A. Use the transpose controls above the sheet to move every chord together while keeping the lyric-change positions aligned.

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