Random Rules Chords

KeyF CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays660

Random Rules by First Aid Kit is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, Am, Bb and Gm. 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
  			Verso 1:
F    Am        Bb                              F 
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection 
F                   Am                Bb                    F 
Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction 
F          Am                         Bb                         F 
Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake 
F                               Am                Bb                        F 
I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake 


Gm                 Bb 
I know you like to line dance 
Gm            Bb 
Everything so democratic and cool 
Gm                    Bb            F 
But, baby, there's no guidance when random rules 

Verso 2: 
F             Am                        Bb                        F 
I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls 
F                Am                           Bb                        F 
Well, maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls 
F               Am                      Bb              F 
But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed 
F             Am                    Bb               F 
That's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said:  

Ponte: 
Gm                   Bb 
"Yeah, you look like someone 
Gm                  Bb 
Yeah, you look like someone who up and left me low 
Gm                 Bb        F 
Boy, you look like someone I used to know" 

Verso 3: 
F           Am              Bb                F 
I asked the painter why the roads are colored black 
F                     Am 
He said, "Steve, it's because people leave 
       Bb                      F 
And no highway will bring them back" 
F               Am         Bb             F 
So if you don't want me, I promise not to linger 
F            Am                      Bb                                F 
But before I go, I've gotta ask you, dear, about that tan line on your ring finger 

Outro 
Gm                Bb 
No one should have two lives 
Gm               Bb 
Now you know my middle names are Wrong and Right 
Gm               Bb           F 
Honey, we've got two lives to give tonight 
F 
To give tonight 
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante