Blue Chords
Blue by First Aid Kit is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 9st fret. It uses the chords D, G, A and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse 1
D G
In the morning on the train
D G
sitting and staring at the rain
D G A
or bury yourself in your books.
A D G D G
Don't look at no strangers, no don't give them any looks.
D G
Well you ask yourself why you're so afraid,
D G
why you hesitate when someone asks your name.
D G A
But they'll come too close if you tell them the truth.
A D G D G
Who's to say they want something from you?
Em A D G
Well your just a shell of your former youth.
Em A D G D G D G
That stranger in the mirror, oh, that's you. Why do you look so blue?
Verse 2
Then the only man you ever loved, he thought was going to marry you, died in a car
accident when he was only twenty-two. Then you just decided love wasn't for you.
And every year since then has proved it to be true.
Chorus
Now your just a shell of your former youth. That stranger in the mirror, oh,
that's you. Why do you look so blue?
Bridge:
Em A G D
Maybe tomorrow you will make a change.
Em A G D
Maybe some day soon you will find the strength.
Chorus
Now your just a shell of your former youth. That stranger in the mirror, oh,
that's you. Why do you look so blue?