Familiar Chords
by Agnes Obel
Familiar by Agnes Obel is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, C, G, Bm and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em C Em C
Can you walk on the water with I, you and I?
Em C Em C
"Because your blood's running cold" said the familiar, true to life
Em C Em C
Can you walk on the water with I, you and I?
Em C Em C
Or keep your eyes on the road and live there familiar, without you and I
Em C Em C
It glows with gates of gold, true to life
Em G Bm
And our love is a ghost that the others can't see
A7
It's a danger
Em G Bm
Every shade of us you fade down to keep
A7
Them in the dark on who we are
(Oh what you do to me)
Em G Bm
Gonna be the death of me
A7
It's a danger
Em G Bm A7
'Cause our love is a ghost that the others can't see
Em C Em C
We took a walk to the summit at night, you and I
Em C Em C
To burn a hole in the old grip of the familiar, you and I
Em C Em C
And the dark was opening wide, do or die
Em C Em C
Under a mask of a million, ruling eyes
Em G Bm
And our love is a ghost that the others can't see
A7
It's a danger
Em G Bm
Every shade of us you fade down to keep
A7
Them in the dark on who we are
(Oh what you do to me)
Em G Bm
Gonna be the death of me
A7
It's a danger
Em G Bm A7
'Cause our love is a ghost that the others can't see