When You Sleep Chords
by Mary Lambert
When You Sleep by Mary Lambert is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, G, Am, C and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em G Am
One foot in front of the other
Em G Am
Keep breathing just like they taught you
Em G Am
You politely asked to take a walk with me
Em G Am
I would've married you there underneath the trees
Em G C
Is it real, this thing?
Em G C
Is it real, ooh, this thing?
Chorus
G
I could make you happy
D
I could make you love me
C
I could disappear completely
G
I could be your love song
D
I could be long gone
C
I could be a ghost in your eardrum
C D G
When you sleep, will it be with me?
C D G
When you sleep, will it be with me?
Em G Am
I swore I saw you in a dream
Em G Am
All dressed in white and wide smile
Em G Am
You politely asked to take a walk with me
Em G Am
And I married you there underneath the trees
Em G Am
Can you feel the beat of my heartbeat beat through me?
Em G C
Can you feel the beat of my heartbeat beat through?
Chorus
Em G C
How did I miss you, when I didn't know you? (Ooh)
Em G C
How did I miss you, when I didn't know you? (Ooh)
Em G C
How did I miss you, when I didn't know you? (Ooh)
Em G C
How did I miss you, when I didn't know you? (Ooh)
Chorus