We Are Real Chords
by Silver Jews
We Are Real by Silver Jews is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7, F, C7, Dm, D7/F#, A, Asus4, G, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verso 1:
C G7 C F
Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left,
C G7 F G7 C
and I will see you soon my friend if these old directions still direct (oh yeah)
F G7 C
If these old directions still direct.
C G7 C F
Is the problem that we can't see or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?
C G7
The birds of Virginia are flying within you
F G7 C
and like background singers they all come in threes.
F G7 C C7
And like background singers they all come in threes.
Pré-Refrão
Dm
Won't soul music change
C C7
now that our souls have turned strange.
F D7/F#
Once a day, twice a day...
Dm
And when on and off collide
C C7 F
we'll set our souls aside and walk away.
A Asus4 A Dm
We've been raised on replicas of fake and winding roads
G
and day after day up on this beautiful stage
Em
we've been playing tambourine for minimum wage
Am
but we are real,
Em
We are real,
Am
I know we are real.
Verso 2:
C G7 C F
Repair is the dream of the broken thing.
C G7
Like a message broadcast on an overpass
F G7 C
all my favorite singers couldn't sing.
F G7 C
All my favorite singers couldn't sing.
C G7 C
My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors
F
and they help me see,
C G7
that everything in this room right now
F G7 C
is a part of me.
F G7 C C7
is a part of me.
Pré-Refrão
Dm
Won't soul music change
C C7
now that our souls have turned strange.
F D7/F#
Once a day, twice a day...
Dm
And when on and off collide
C C7 F
we'll set our souls aside and walk away.
A Asus4 A Dm
Realizing is how it feels inside when it happens to you.
G
So I took a shot of sugar like snow dumped into the blood
Em
and children wander off into the ultra-economic
Am
but we are real,
Em
We are real
Am
I know we are real,
Em
I know we are real,
Am Em
I know we are real, real, real, real, real, real, real...
Am
I know we are real.