The Outsider Chords

by REM
KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays483

The Outsider by REM is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, D, G, A and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Em
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Chords :   Em D Em Em  
 
VERSE:  
 Em D Em Em  
You took me to the restaurant where we first met. 
 Em D Em Em  
You knocked a future shock crowbar upside my head. 
 Em D G A   
I got caught with the stop of the tick tock, tick tock clock 
 Em D Em Em  
When you told me what you knew. 
 Em D G A  
Lost in the moment, the day that the music stopped. 
 Em D Em Em  
And I do remember you. 
 
 
 C C D D  
DRAWING PATTERNS WITH A CORK ON THE TABLECLOTH. 
 G D Em Em  
PROMISING VOLCANIC CHANGE OF PLOT. 
 C C D D  
WHERE WILL THIS LEAD US? I'M SCARED OF THE STORM. 
 Em D Em Em 
THE OUTSIDERS ARE GATHERING. A NEW DAY IS BORN. 
 
tried to tell you I am not afraid 
you looked up and saw it all across my face 
so am I with you or am I against? 
I don't think it's that easy, we're lost in regret. 
now I'm trying to remember the feeling when the music stopped. 
when you told me what you knew. 
lost in the moment, the day that the music stopped. 
and I do remember you. 
 
{Same as the previous Chorus} 
 
 Em D Em Em 
THE OUTSIDERS ARE GATHERING, A NEW DAY IS BORN. 
THE OUTSIDERS ARE GATHERING. 
{Repete verse} 
A man walks away. when every muscle says to stay. 
how many yesterdays? they each weigh heavy. 
who says what changes may come. who says what we call home. 
I know you see right through me, my luminescence fades, 
the dusk provides an antidote, I am not afraid. 
I've been a million times, in my mind, and this is really just a technicality. 
frailty. reality. 
 
uh, It's time to breathe. Time to believe. Let it go and run towards the sea. 
they don't teach that, they don't know what you mean. 
they don't understand, they don't know what you mean. 
they don't get it, I want to scream. 
I want to breathe again, I want to dream. 
I want to float a quote from Martin Luther King 
 
I am not afraid I am not afraid I am not afraid 
I AM NOT AFRAID I AM NOT AFRAID I AM NOT AFRAID I AM NOT AFRAID 
 
 
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Contribuição: Luis Felipe Berchielli([email protected]) 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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100 BPM Andante