Sad Old Life Chords

KeyC Capo8st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays578

Sad Old Life by Passenger is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 8st fret. It uses the chords Am, Fmaj7, G, C, Cmaj7/E, E and Am7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			
Am  
Kids sat smoking by the cinema doors 
Fmaj7 
Too young to drink, Too old to stay indoors 
G 
Complaining about their mum and dads giving them chores 
Am                           G 
It’s a hard old fucking life 
Am 
A man on the telly leaves a comical pause 
Fmaj7 
Telling some jokes about mother in laws 
G 
Everybody laughs, Everybody applaudes 
Am                            G 
Everybody apart from his wife 

Fmaj7 
Cause nothing ever changes 
C                  G 
but everything will 
Fmaj7 
Just a little older 
C                         G 
A little less time to kill 
Fmaj7              C 
You run your whole life 
   Cmaj7/E         Am 
To be standing still 


Am  Cmaj7/E  Am Fmaj7  G 



Am 
Girls taking pictures of themselves online 
Fmaj7 
They stick ’em up on every social media site 
G 
To prove themselves they’ve had the time of their lives 
Am                           G 
It’s a sad old fucking world 
Am 
Alpha males chase tails round beauty queens 
Fmaj7 
Like Japanese around a karaoke machine 
G 
We've all got tattoos but we don’t know what they mean 
Am                          G 
It’s a sad old fucking life 


Fmaj7 
Cause nothing ever changes 
C                 G 
nothing ever will 
Fmaj7 
We spend our whole life running 
C                       G 
But we're standing still 
Fmaj7 
Just a little older 
C                         G 
A little less time to kill 

Fmaj7 
We fly kites out 
C                  G 
In electrical storms 
Fmaj7 
We're burning all our fingers 
C                          G 
Just to keep our hands warm 
Fmaj7            
We've been dying  
C           E            Am7 
Since the day we were born 
    	

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante