Daylight Chords

KeyF# CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays632

Daylight by Coldplay is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F#. It uses the chords F#, F#7, E, D and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
F#
Text
16
Speed
  			F#  F#7 x 4
E D F# F#7 x 2

      E7    D    F#                E7   D         F#
To my sur - prise               My de - light
      E7    D    F#                    E7   D     F#
I saw sun rise                  I saw sun light
     E7  D    F#                        E7   D    F#
I am nothing                    In the dark
         E7    D    F#                   E7   D   F#
And the clouds burst            To show day light

E7            D                 F#
ooooh and the sun will shine    Yeah, on this heart of mine
E7            D                 F#
ooooh then I realise            Who cannot live without
E7            D                 F#
Ooooh come apart without        it

          E7   D      F#        E7   D     F#
On a hilltop                    on a sky rise
        E7    D    F#           E7    D     F#
Like a first born               Child
        E7    D    F#           E7     D    F#
And at full tilt                And in full flight
        E7 D    F#              E7  D     F#
defeat darkness                 breaking daylight

E7            D                F#
ooooh and the sun will shine   Yeah, on this heart of mine
E7            D                F#
ooooh and I realise            Who cannot live without
E7            D                F#
Ooooh and come apart without   Daylight

E7                      D            F#                     F#7
Slowly breaking through  a daylight  Slowly breaking through  a daylight    
(repeat to end)
    	

Chord diagrams

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