Better Chords

KeyF CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays494

Better by Maggie Rogers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, C, Dm, Em, Gm and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
F
Text
16
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Intro: 

        - RIFF -  
   F    C   Dm  
E ---------------------- 
B ---1----1-3--1h3p1---- 
G -2----2------------2-- 
D ---------------------- 
A ---------------------- 
E ---------------------- 

   F    C   Dm  
E ---------------------- 
B ---1----1-3--1h3p1---- 
G -2----2------------2-- 
D ---------------------- 
A ---------------------- 
E ---------------------- 


Verse: 
 F                        C           Dm 
Silence lays like lace around my mind 
 F                  C             Dm 
Delicate embrace I need sometimes 
  F                       C            Dm 
Guides me when I'm on my way back home 
 F                       C        Dm 
Tells me when I'm truly all alone 


Pre-Chorus 
Dm              Em 
And when I get sick of the silence 

I get back on the highway 
 Gm 
Could be going nowhere 
      F 
I can be going your way 
 C 
Sick of the silence  
                              Gm       Am 
But I'll be somewhere new by daw-aw-aw-awn 

They could be 

 C 
Better, better, better, better, better 
 Gm                      F 
Better, better, better, better, better 
 C 
Better, better, better, better, be-e-etter 
Gm         Dm 
Oh,  Oh-oh-oh 


   F    C   Dm  
E ---------------------- 
B ---1----1-3--1h3p1---- 
G -2----2------------2-- 
D ---------------------- 
A ---------------------- 
E ---------------------- 

Verse: 
     F 
And can you can recall that moment at all 
         C                  Dm 
When we warmed up way last June? 
     F 
And how many times do we talk through the night 
      C                Dm 
And sleep in way past noon? 


Pre-Chorus 
             Em 
But now I'm sick of the silence 

Getting back on the highway 
      Gm 
Could be going nowhere 
      F 
I can be going your way 
 C 
Sick of the silence 
                              Gm       Am 
But I'll be somewhere new by daw-aw-aw-awn 


BREAK: 
               C 
They could be better 
               Gm 
They could be better 
          F 
(Better, better, better)  
 C 
Better 

(Better, better, better) 
 Gm                      Dm             F 
Better, better, better, better, better 

F 

C               Dm     F 
Be-be-be-be-be-better,  

F 

C               Dm 
Be-be-be-be-be-better, Oh 

 F 
Better, better, better, better, better 
 C                       Dm 
Better, better, better, better, better 
 F                                         C 
Better, better, better, better, be-e-etter oh 
C               Dm 
Be-be-be-be-be-better,  

 F 
Better, better, better, better, better 
 C                       Dm 
Better, better, better, better, better 
 F                                         C 
Better, better, better, better, be-e-etter oh 
C               Dm 
Be-be-be-be-be-better, 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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