High Enough To Carry You Over Chords

KeyC Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays694

High Enough To Carry You Over by Chvrches is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords C, Em, D, G and Am. 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
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Intro: C    Em  D 

C 
No more barricades, slowly diffusing 
Em                  D 
I'll be leaving now, nobody's losing 
C 
If you could play a part, stay in resistance 
Em                  D 
Every fault would fade into the distance 


C 
Run if you like 
G                      D 
All of the things that you left behind 
C 
Hold me down 
G                  D 
You can't deny and I can't deny 
C 
Open your eyes 
G                   D 
I'll look away and you come around 
C 
To build your words 
G                D 
High enough to carry you over 


Am 
And I never would've given you up (Never would've given you up, you up) 
Em   
If you only hadn't given me up (Only hadn't given me up, me up) 
Am 
Then I never would've given you up (Never would've given you up, you up) 
Em                               D 
If you only hadn't given me up (Only hadn't given me up, me up) 


C 
No more clarity, only confusion 
Em                      D 
Every focused thought, just an illusion 
C 
If I could see you now, if you would listen 
Em                   D 
Every fault would fade into the distance 


C 
Run if you like 
G                      D 
All of the things that you left behind 
C 
Hold me down 
G                  D 
You can't deny and I can't deny 
C 
Open your eyes 
G                   D 
I'll look away and you come around 
C 
To build your words 
G                D 
High enough to carry you over 


Am 
And I never would've given you up (Never would've given you up, you up) 
Em   
If you only hadn't given me up (Only hadn't given me up, me up) 
Am 
Then I never would've given you up (Never would've given you up, you up) 
Em                               D 
If you only hadn't given me up (Only hadn't given me up, me up) 


        C     Em   D 
And you are 
      C                       Em   D 
If I only hadn't given you up 
       C                       Em  
If you only hadn't given me up 
        D 
And you are 
     C                         Em 
If I only hadn't given you up 
D 
Losin' my breath and leaving' the rest 


C 
Run if you like 
G                      D 
All of the things that you left behind 
C 
Hold me down 
G                  D 
You can't deny and I can't deny 
C 
Open your eyes 
G                   D 
I'll look away and you come around 
C 
To build your words 
G                D 
High enough to carry you over 


Am 
And I never would've given you up (Never would've given you up, you up) 
Em   
If you only hadn't given me up (Only hadn't given me up, me up) 
Am 
Then I never would've given you up (Never would've given you up, you up) 
Em                               D 
If you only hadn't given me up (Only hadn't given me up, me up) 

Am 
Then I never would've given you up (Never would've given you up, you up) 
Em   
If you only hadn't given me up (Only hadn't given me up, me up) 
Am 
Then I never would've given you up (Never would've given you up, you up) 
Em                               D 
If you only hadn't given me up (Only hadn't given me up, me up) 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

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