Beautiful Times Chords

KeyG Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays541

Beautiful Times by Owl City is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G                C                        D 
 A spark soaring down through the pouring rain 
              Em          G 
and restoring life to the lighthouse 
G              C            
 A slow motion wave on the ocean 
D                Em        G 
Stirs my emotion up like a rain cloud 

G            Em        D     
When did the sky turn black? 
    D             Em          C  
And when will the light come back? 

G             C                  D 
 A cab driver turned to skydiver then 
             Em      G 
To survivor dying to breakdown 
G                 C 
 A blood brother, surrogate mother 
D                   Em           G 
Hugging each other, crying their eyes out 

G            Em        D     
When did the sky turn black? 
    D             Em          C  
And when will the light come back? 
G             C                  D               
 I'm ecstatic like a drug addict locked in the attic 
Em             G 
Strung out and spellbound 

Em                         
 I fought all through the night 
Am             D  
 Oh, oh, but I made it alive 
Em                      
 The sun's starting to rise 
Am                 D 
 Oh, oh, these are beautiful times 
Am                C          Em       D        Am 
 This fight of my life is so hard, so hard, so hard 
          C 
 But I'm gonna survive 
Em                 D 
 Oh, oh, these are beautiful times 

violin solo 

G              C 
 A bad feeling burns through the ceiling 
D                  Em           G 
leaving my healing heart with a new scar 
G            C 
 A dead fire rose and rose higher 
D              Em          G 
like a vampire up from the graveyard 

G            Em        D     
When did the sky turn black? 
    D             Em          C  
And when will the light come back? 
G              C 
 We all suffer but we recover 
D                Em            G 
Just to discover life where we all are 

Em                         
 I fought all through the night 
Am             D  
 Oh, oh, but I made it alive 
Em                      
 The sun's starting to rise 
Am                 D 
 Oh, oh, these are beautiful times 
Am                C          Em       D        Am 
 This fight of my life is so hard, so hard, so hard 
          C 
 But I'm gonna survive 
Em                 D 
 Oh, oh, these are beautiful times 

Am                C          Em       D        Am 
 This fight of my life is so hard, so hard, so hard 
          C 
 But I'm gonna survive 
Em                 D 
 Oh, oh, these are beautiful times 

G                   C                    D 
 My heart's burning bad and it's turning black 
                 Em        G 
but I'm learning how to be stronger 
G               C                  D 
 And sincerely, I love you dearly, oh  
                Em          G 
But I'm clearly destined to wander 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante