Friends Chords

KeyG# CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays432

Friends by Red Car Wire is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G#. It uses the chords G#/G, D, D#, G#, Bb and Cm. 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#
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*Note: There's one chord in the bridge, the technical name of which I'm not sure,  
but I will call G#/G It is played like this: 
e|-----| 
B|-----| 
G|-----| 
D|--6--| 
A|--6--| 
E|--3--| 
   G#/G 

or for Drop D tuning: 
e|-----| 
B|-----| 
G|-----| 
D|--5--| 
A|--6--| 
D|--5--| 
   G#/G 

Intro: 
D#-D#-G# 
D#-D#-G#-Bb 

Verse: 
D# 
You're a mess 
D# 
Your life's off track but your heart beats still 
G# 
And you push away like I know you will 
Bb 
You go through the motions and lose motivation 
D# 
You're lost and exhausted but wont stop fighting 
D# 
You think that you're right but inside you're hiding it 
G#              Bb 
I'm on your side and I'll fight and I won't stop, I never will 


D#                          G# 
This is the last thing that I'll ever say 
D# 
I'll be there when the world falls down 
    G#                   Bb 
And all your friends are gone forever 


Verse: 
D# 
We've all moved on 
D# 
We've gone our separate ways 
G# 
But you were way to cool for us 
Bb 
But who needs us now 
D# 
You're lost and exhausted but wont stop fighting 
D# 
You think that you're right but inside you're hiding it 
G#              Bb 
I'm on your side and I'll fight and I won't stop, I never will 


D#                          G# 
This is the last thing that I'll ever say 
D# 
I'll be there when the world falls down 
G#                       Bb 
And all your friends are gone forever 


Bridge: 
Torn apart 
Live alone everyday  
A mile away, but who needs us now? 
(And I don't wanna be alone again) 
When you're gone, gone when you're gone 
     G# 
Torn apart 
     D# 
Live alone everyday  
       Cm            D#              
A mile away, but who needs us now? 
(And I don't wanna be alone again) 
            G#           G#/G 
When you're gone, you're gone 
                  Cm      D# 
Oh my God they're gone, yeah 


D#                          G# 
This is the last thing that I'll ever say 
D# 
I'll be there when the world falls down 
G#                       Bb 
And all your friends are gone forever 
    	

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