Speeding Cars Chords

KeyC# Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays650

Speeding Cars by Imogen Heap is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C# with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords C, F, G, Am and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C#
Text
16
Speed
  			 

C                   F            G 
here's the day you hoped would never come 
                                Am 
don’t feed me violence just run with me  
    F                  G 
through rows of speeding cars 
C                     F 
the paper cuts, the cheating lovers 
G                         G 
the coffee’s never strong enough 
Am                     F               G 
I know you think it’s more than just bad luck 

Estribillo 

Am                 
There, there, baby 
         G 
It’s just text book stuff 
             F                E 
it’s in the abc's of growing up 
Am  
now, now, darlin’ 
        G 
oh don’t lose your hay 
             F 
'cause none of us were angels 
     E                  Am 
and you know i love you, yeh 

C                   F            G 
Sleeping pills know sleeping dogs lie 
G                    
Never far enough away 
Am                F              
Glistening in the cold sweat of guilt 
             C            F              G                    
I've watched you slowly winding down for years 
G                       Am 
you can't keep on like this... 
   G                E 
now's a bad a time as any 

Estribillo 
Am                 
There, there, baby 
         G 
It’s just text book stuff 
             F                E 
it’s in the abc's of growing up 
Am  
now, now, darlin’ 
     G    
don't kill yourself 

             F 
cause none of us were angels 
     E                  Am 
and you know i love you, yeh 
    	

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