When Your Colours Go Chords
by Josh Pyke
When Your Colours Go by Josh Pyke is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Am, Dm, G, Em, Bb, F/E and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C | | F Am | | | C | | F Am | |
Verse: 1
C F Am
I am the colour of an autumn flurry of leaves in a breeze for you
Dm Am G F
And I am a study in hues of grey and the blue of a broken day for you
C F Am
Oh the hurry, the press of your body in the embers of an afternoon
Dm Am G Dm G
Now I spend my money on something stupid, trying to believe I belong to you
G C F
Oh when the colours go, when the colours go they won't come back
C G C F
You strip me right, you strip them right out so maybe you would welcome that
C G C F
And I don't know where your colours go, but if your colours go I won't come back
C F Em G
I won't come back, but maybe you would welcome that
Interlude: C | | F Am | | F C | | F Am | | |
Verse: 2
C F Am
Oh we linger in the cold comfort of each other in your bedroom
Dm Am G Dm
And we are the colour of something borrowed, trying to believe we're something new
G C F
And oh when the colours go, when the colours go they won't come back
C G C F
You strip me right, you strip them right out so maybe you would welcome that
C G C F
And I don't know where your colours go, but when your colours go I won't come back
C G C F
You strip me right, you strip me right out so maybe you would welcome that
C F Em G
I won't come back, but maybe you would welcome that
Bridge
Bb Am C F F/E
And in this garden we were barely kept
Bb Am D D
So maybe more should be less
F Em Am D C C
We're only antique blooms, on an unmade bed
G C F
And oh when your colours go, when your colours go I won't come back
C G C F
You strip me right, you strip them right out so maybe you would welcome that
C G C F
And I don't know where your colours go, but when your colours go they won't come back
C G C F
You strip me right, you strip me right out so maybe you would welcome that
C G C F
And I don't know where your colours go, but when your colours go they won't come back
C F Em G
They don't come back, and maybe you would welcome that
Interlude: C | | F Am | | F C | | F Am | | |
Outro
C F Am
And I am the colour of an autumn flurry of leaves in a breeze for you
Dm Am G C
And I am a study in hues of grey and the blue of a broken day for you