Suede Chords
Suede by Melissa Etheridge is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, G, D, C, Am and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:
Em G D C
Em G D C
Verse:
Em G D C
I never understood your skin
Em G D C
Sharp and hard like leather never ever broken in
Em G D C
Discarded on the path of your perfection
Am C
I learned that beauty lies in the eyes of the deception
Em G D C
Fingers like a silver chain, yeah
Em G D C
Soft around my neck can I ever trust again?
Em G D C
Lying in the path of your destruction
Am C
Sifting through the rubble for the ghost of your seduction
G D Em
Just like the marks on my guitar
Em C G
Just like the scratches on my heart
G D Am C D G
Some things ain't ever gonna fade
G D Em
I'll never get back all those years
C G
But now, I'm taking back those tears
D Am Am Am Am
Tonight, I'm falling into suede, yeah
Verse:
Em G D C
Deep in the night, I see my fears
Em G D C
And if I try to touch them, they only disappear
Em G D C
The needle and the thread, just a temporary mend
Am C
Days and days are never put together again
G D Em
Just like the marks on my guitar
Em C G
Just like the scratches on my heart
G D Am C D G
Some things ain't ever gonna fade yeah
G D Em
I'll never get back all those years
C G
But now, I'm taking back those tears
D Am Am Am Am
Tonight, I'm falling into suede, oh oh
BREAK:
Em Bm
All the smoke, all the wine
Am
The stains deep in my mind, yeah
Em Bm
Oh, I am fringe in the breeze
Am C
Oh, that tears like denim on my knees
G D Em
Just like the marks on my guitar
Em C G
Just like the scratches on my heart
G D Am C D G
Some things ain't ever gonna fade
G D Em
I'll never get back all those years
C G
But now, I'm taking back those tears
D Am C
Tonight, I'm falling into sue-ede,
G D Em
Just like the marks on my guitar
Em C G
Just like the scratches on my heart
G D Am C D G
Some things ain't ever gonna fa-ade
G D Em
I'll never get back all those years
C G
But now, I'm taking back those tears
D Am Am
Tonight, I'm falling into sue-ede
Am C G
Tonight, I'm falling into suede