Speed Of Sound
Coldplay
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Tom:
[Intro] A Em Em D
A Em Em D
G|---7-----------7-----------7-----------7--------| (2x)
A Em7
How long before I get in
D
Before it starts, before I begin
A Em7
How long before you decide
D
Before I know what it feels like
A Em7
Where to? Where do I go?
D
If you've never tried then you'll never know
A Em7
How long do I have to climb
D
Up on this side of this mountain of mine
[A Em Em D]
[A Em Em D]
A Em7
Look up, I look up at night
D
Planets are moving at the speed of light
A Em7
Climb up, up in the trees, every chance that you get
D
is a chance you seize
A Em7
How long am I gonna stand
D
With my head stuck under the sand?
A Em7
I start before I can stop
D
Before I see things the right way up
[Refrão]
G A Bm7
All that noise, all that sound
G A Bm7
All those places that I have found
G Bm
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
D G
To show you how it all began
G Bm
Birds came flying from the underground
F#m G
If you could see it then you'd understand
[A Em Em D]
[A Em Em D]
A Em7
Ideas that you'll never find
D
Or the inventors could never design
A Em7
The buildings that you put up
D
Japan and China... All lit up
A Em7
The sign that I couldn't read
D
Or the light that I couldn't see
A Em7
Some things you have to believe
D
But others are puzzles, puzzling me
[Refrão] (repetir)
[Próxima Parte]
F#m G
Ah, when you see it then you'll understand
D G A Bm
All those signs I knew what they meant
E
Some things you can't invent
G A Bm
Some get made, and some get sent
E
Uh Uh
G Bm
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
D G
To show you how it all began
G Bm
Birds came flying from the underground
F#m G
If you could see it then you'd understand
F#m G D
Ah, when you see it then you'll understand
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