Chasing The Sun Chords

KeyC Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays617

Chasing The Sun by Sara Bareilles is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords C, F, Em7, G, Am and Em. 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
  			 
 
Tuning: Standard EADGBe 


Intro: C - C     

C        
It's a really old city                                                    
F 
Stuck between the dead and the living  
Em7                             G                               
So I thought to myself, sitting on a graveyard shelf  
Am                                  F                                  Em7 
As the echo of heartbeats, from the ground below my feet  
                        G 
Filled a cemetery in the center of Queens  
C                                       F 
I started running the maze of  
                                Em7 
The names and the dates, some older than others  
G 
The skyscrapers, little tombstone brothers  
Am                                      F 
With Manhattan behind her, three million stunning reminders  
Em7                     G 
Built a cemetery in the center of Queens  
  
C                               Em                             F 
You said, remember that life is, not meant to be wasted  
G 
We can always be chasing the sun!  

C                       Em             F       
So fill up your lungs and just run  
G                                               C 
But always be chasing the sun!  

C                               F                                      Em7 
So how do you do it, With just words and just music, capture the feeling  
 G 
That my earth is somebody?s ceiling,  
Am                              F 
can I deliver in sound, the weight of the ground  
Em7                             G 
Of a cemetery in the center of Queens  
C 
There?s a history through her  
F                                               Em7 
Sent to us as a gift from the future, to show us the proof  
G 
More than that, it's to dare us to move  
Am                              F 
To open our eyes and to learn from the sky  
Em7                             G 
From a cemetery in the center of Queens  

C                               Em                             F                       
You said, remember that life is, Not meant to be wasted  
G 
We can always be chasing the sun!  

C                       Em             F 
So fill up your lungs and just run  
G 
But always be chasing the sun!  

C               F      G       
All we can do is try  
Am                            F          G 
And live like we're still alive  

C 
It's a really old city  
F 
Stuck between the dead and the living 
 Em7                            G 
So I thought to myself, sitting on a graveyard shelf  
Am                              F 
And the gift of my heartbeat sounds like a symphony  
Em7                             G 
Played by a cemetery in the center of Queens  

C                               Em                             F 
You said, remember that life is not meant to be wasted  
G 
We can always be chasing the sun!  
C                       Em                     F 
So fill up your lungs and just run 
G 
But always be chasing the sun!  
C               F      G 
All we can do is try  
Am                         F       G 
And live like we're still alive  
C               F      G 
All we can do is try  
Am                           F        G 
And live like we're still alive 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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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