False Start Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays555

False Start by Bikini Kill is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, G, Db and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D 
On a point in time-present undefined  
A                        D 
And it's getting cold outside 
D  
Situation statical-for reasons you don't know  
Just short of indecision  
A                       D 
And it's getting cold outside 
A                       D  
And it's getting cold outside  
D 
For you own trepidation  
D 
Refer to new perspexion  
D 
See yourself as others see you  
D                          A   
In reverse red can appear blue  
A             D 
Wanna go outside  
A                   D  
Don't you wanna go outside  
A G A G 
A            G     A    G   
Been stuck inside your room  
A          G          D        G 
So stranded-like and full of doom  
G       D   Db 
All year  
A                    G 
Time out for good behavior  
A       G     A             D    Db 
Adds up to what you want it to  
A                G 
What you wanna, what you 
B  
Wanna do.  
D 
That informs a motivation-  
D 
Casual or obligation-fictitious circumstance  
D                           A 
Suspending all your future plans  
A              D 
Wait for you outside.  
D 
If this false started motion  
D 
Believes it's own propulsion  
D 
Tran-sending space and time,  
A                      D 
Then I'll wait for you outside  
A                       D 
Then I'll wait for you outside  

A G A G 

G              A 
Been so long since I've seen you  
G                    A                 D    Db 
So much has changed, you sound the same  
A        G      A                        G 
We're meeting at this place I wanna see you,  
A        G     D              Db 
See your face again  
A                   G                B 
We're all waiting, we're all waiting here. 
    	

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