Days Are Numbers Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays606

Days Are Numbers by Alan Parsons Project is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
Text
16
Speed
  			C 
The traveller is always leaving town 
   Am 
He never has the time to turn around 
    F 
And if the road he's taken isn't leading anywhere 
   G 
He seems to be completely unaware 

The traveller is always leaving home 
The only kind of life he's ever known 
When every moment seems to be 
A race against the time 
There's always one more mountain left to climb 

C 
Days are numbers watch the stars 
Am 
We can only see so far 
    F                          G 
Someday, you'll know where you are 
Remember 
Days are numbers 
Count the stars 
We can only go so far 
One day, you'll know where you are 

The traveller awaits the morning tide 
He doesn't know what's on the other side 
But something deep inside of him 
Keeps telling him to go 
He hasn't found a reason to say no 

The traveller is only passing through 
He cannot understand your point of view 
Abandoning reality, unsure of what he'll find 
The traveller in me is close behind 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante