Before The Rain Chords
by Duran Duran
Before The Rain by Duran Duran is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Bm. It uses the chords Bm, Em, A, G, F#7, Bb and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Solo: Bm Em A Bm Bm Em G A
Bm Em A Bm
A stormy summer is rolling close
Bm Em G A
Lighting up this holy smoker
Bm Em A Bm
And if this drinking could ease the thinking
Bm Em G A
I toast to my home truth with this glass
Em G A Bm Em G A Bm
All rise you promises broken call my lovers by their names
Bm Em G Em A
Lost hearts and words that are spoken to the wind
F#7 Bm
Which blows before the rain
Solo: Bm Em A Bm Bm Em G A
Bm Em A Bm
Little pin-pricks and how my ears bleed
Bm Em G A
On the bomb ticks that is my heartbeat
Bm Em A Bm
In every life-flash in every car crash
Bm Em G A
I hear the silence waiting to fall
Em G A Bm Em G A Bm
All rise you promises broken call my lovers by their names
Bm Em G Em A
Lost hearts and words that are spoken to the wind
F#7 G Em Bb Am
Which blows before the rain
Solo: G Em Bb Am (3x)
Bm Em A Bm
For all I carry are murdered secrets
Bm Em G A
The price of my blue star-eyed weakness
Bm Em A Bm
And so we travel and we unravel
Bm Em A Bm
Towards the place where all loose ends go
Em G A Bm Em G A Bm
All rise you promises broken call my lovers by their names
Bm Em G Em A
Lost hearts and words that are spoken to the wind
F#7 Bm
Which blows before the rain
Solo: Bm Em A Bm Bm Em G A