Racing Heart Chords
Racing Heart by Melanie Safka is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords F, Bb, C and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
st Fret
Intro: F Bb F
C F
Be the sky I long to fly through
C Bb
I'm a song for your breeze to sing
Dm C Bb
I'm in this play without a part
C F C F
And I stand silent with my racing heart
C F
Beauty cries out to everyone
C Bb
So few ever hear her sing
Dm C Bb
We live to play our souls out loud
C F
Yet we stand silent with a racing heart
C Dm
It has it's own life, it has it's own sun
Bb C
It has it's own god, it has it's own gun
F
It knocks at heaven's door and opens it as well
Bb C
It seeks its own truth, finds its own hell
F Dm Bb
I'm condemned to wander worlds apart
C F Bb
I stand silent with a racing heart
F Dm Bb
Condemned to wander worlds apart
C F Dm Bb F
I stand silent with my racing heart
C F
In these places of my longing
C Bb
Beyond isolation's door
Dm C Bb
In realms of dream I light the spark
C F
My soul shall burn beside my racing heart
C Dm
It has it's own life, it has it's own sun
Bb C
It has it's own god, it has it's own gun
F
It knocks at heaven's door and opens it as well
Bb C
It seeks its own truth, finds its own hell
F Dm Bb
I'm condemned to wander worlds apart
C F Bb
Standing silent with my racing heart
F Dm Bb
Condemned to wander worlds apart
I stand silent with my racing heart
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