Departure Lounge Chords

KeyB CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays465

Departure Lounge by British India is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords B, G#m, E and C#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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B 
The lights on the freeway  
G#m 
The car that takes me home 
B 
The flight takes and hour  
G#m 
And every hour goes slow 

                                        E               B 
You colour you’re hair 
            C#m                                 E       B 
We are departing parting parting next year 
            C#m                                  
We are departing parting parting next year 

B 
Do you still think of me  
G#m 
Do you ever wish I could hear you breathe 
B 
Was October alone 
G#m 
Did you spend December wishing you were home  

                        E               B 
The colour of stars 
            C#m                                 E       B 
We are departing parting parting there on 
            C#m                  
We are departing  

B 
Are you falling asleep 
G#m 
As you wait for the shapes to catch your dreams 
B 
I could drive for a week 
G#m 
You could make up a place where we could meet 

                        E               B 
Driving all night 
            C#m                                 E       B 
We are departing parting parting day light 
            C#m                                          
We are departing  

B 
All these childhood streets  
G#m 
All these initials written in concrete  
B 
They mean nothing to me 
G#m 
I could watch it all bleed into the sea 

                        E               B 
Tied to the wheel 
            C#m                                 E       B 
We are departing parting parting next year 
            C#m                                          
We are departing parting parting next year 


B G#m 

                        E               B 
The colour of stars 
            C#m                                 E       B 
We are departing parting parting there on 
            C#m         B        
We are departing  

B 
Were parked at the airport 
G#m 
Over the city 
B 
Were not here, were nowhere 
G#m 
Were feathers on the breeze 

                                        E               B 
You colour you’re hair 
            C#m                                 E       B 
We are departing parting parting next year 
            C#m                                          
We are departing parting parting next year 

B  G#m 
And you never look back  x15?... 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

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

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante