When You Wake Up Chords

KeyEm Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays701

When You Wake Up by Dead By April is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords Em, D/F#, C, G, D and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Em
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Verse 1: 

          Em       D/F#    C 
When you wake up (wake up, wake up) 

          Em       D/F#    C 
When you wake up (wake up, wake up) 


Em Em G D (2x) 


Em              D              C 
 I can see your hurt, See your sorry 

Em           D                 C 
 I know the face, I know the story 

      Bm             Em            G               D 
When hope is fading out, You can trust me I'll be there 

     C                       D 
When pain is screaming loud, I'll 




     Em   C        G            D 
I'm awake, To be watching over you 

           Em   C                     G           D 
Don't you worry, I'm never taking my eyes off of you 

         Em   C          G                 D 
Fall asleep now, I will be there when you wake up 

           Em  C G  D   Em      D/F# 
Don't you worry, I will be there 

 C 
(Yeah, yeah, yeah) 

          Em Em G D 
When you wake up 


Verse 2 

Em          D               C 
  Try to forget, Try to forgive 
(Hey) 

Em            D           C 
  Try to move on, Try to live 
      Bm            Em            G              D     
When hope is fading out, You can turn to me and say 

C                                 D 
This is more than I can possibly take 


 

     Em   C        G            D 
I'm awake, To be watching over you 

           Em   C                     G           D 
Don't you worry, I'm never taking my eyes off of you 

         Em   C          G                 D 
Fall asleep now, I will be there when you wake up 

           Em  C G  D 
When you wake up 

Bridge: 

                     C 
Keep fighting every day, 

                   Em 
It takes a lot of time 

                   D 
It's only in your mind 

                     C 
Keep fighting every day 

                           Em 
Look inside yourself, be strong 

                               D 
Because from here it won't take long 

           C     Em 
Until you wake up 
            
           D 
Until you wake up 

C           Em       D 
 Until you wake up, hey 




     Em   C        G            D 
I'm awake, To be watching over you 

           Em   C                     G           D 
Don't you worry, I'm never taking my eyes off of you 

         Em   C          G                 D 
Fall asleep now, I will be there when you wake up 

           Em  C G  D   Em      D/F# 
Don't you worry, I will be there 

 C                Em D/F# C 
(Yeah, yeah, yeah) 

          Em Em G D 
When you wake up 

          Em Em G D 
When you wake up 
    	

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