Telling Lies Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays436

Telling Lies by David Bowie is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, D, Bm, G and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Am
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Intro: Am, D, Am, D 

Bm 
Gorgeous girls are bound to meet 
Am 
To talk of stars and kings and feet 
Bm                                     Am 
Through the chromosomes of space and time 
Bm 
Me I'm fast like bad infection 
Am 
Gasping for my resurrection 
Bm                                 Am 
Swear to me in times of war and stress 
(Am  D) 
Telling lies 
Telling lies 
Telling lies 
Telling lies 
            Am                             G 
Telling lies (Oh ah visionary oh ah visionary) 
                   C                                    D 
Telling lies (feels like somethings gonna happen this year)   (2x) 

Teeelliinggg Liiieesss 
Bm 
Shadow falls in shrinking smiles 
Am 
See me poised at the happy games 
Bm                                   Am 
Standing in the mouth of all that's pure 
Bm 
Come straggling in your tattered remnants 
Am 
You come to me with teras and blame 
Bm 
I'm your future 
I am tomorrow 
          Am 
I am the end 
(Am,G,C,D) 
Telling lies 
Telling lies 
Telling lies 
Telling lies 
            Am                             G 
Telling lies (Oh ah visionary oh ah visionary) 
                   C                         D 
Telling lies (feels like somethings gonna happen this year)   (2x) 

Am           G 
Telling lies 
            C     D 
Telling lies 
Am          G 
Oh ah oh 
C             D 
Oh ah oh 
Am            G 
Oh ah oh 
C                                            D 
Feels like somethings gonna happens this year 
(Am  G, C, D) 
Oh ah Teeelliinggg Liiieesss 
Feels like somethings gonna happens this year 
Oh ah Teeelliinggg Liiieesss 
Feels like somethings gonna happens this year 
Oh ah Teeelliinggg Liiieesss 
Oh ah 
Oh ah Teeelliinggg Liiieesss 
Feels like somethings gonna happens this year 
    	

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante