Cassiopeia Chords

KeyC Capo6st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays473

Cassiopeia by Sara Bareilles is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 6st fret. It uses the chords C, Dm, Em and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Capo on the 6th fret  

C                        C 
Come in close now, it's time to tell a story 
C                C 
Long ago and so many years before we 
Dm               Dm 
Ever were, ever dreamed we even could be 
Em        G            G     
There was her and her very first heartbeat 
C                  C 
All alone in the corner of the night sky 
C                  C 
Spiral bones of a supernova starlight 
Dm                 Dm 
Fell in love with another burning bright 
     Em      G  
She dreamed of a way to ignite 

           C          C                   Dm 
She said, "Tonight, come on, come on, collide 
                    G 
Break me to pieces, I, I think you're just like heaven 
 C    C                    Dm 
Why, come on, come on,  collide 
      Dm                     G 
Let's see what a fire feels like 
            G 
I bet it's just like heaven" 
C 
(Just like heaven) 
C 
(Just like heaven) 

C                      C 
Such a shame, nowhere near, even a near miss 
C                          C 
Light years away from the hope of being sun-kissed 
Dm                    Dm 
Anchored home in her interstellar sea 
      Em   G 
But, poor lonely Cassiopeia 
C                     C 
So she sighs and she burns with desperation 
C                   C 
Learns to cry over love of constellations 
Dm                     Dm 
Then the spark from a star shooting too close 
      Em    G 
They both smiled, what a day to explode 
           C          C                   Dm 
She said, "Tonight, come on, come on, collide 
                    G 
Break me to pieces, I, I think you're just like heaven 
 C    C                    Dm 
Why, come on, come on,  collide 
      Dm                     G 
Let's see what a fire feels like 
            G 
I bet it's just like heaven" 
C 
(Just like heaven) 
C 
(Just like heaven) 

C              C 
Long ago in a sky built before us 
   C             C 
A supernova grew up to be stardust 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante