Needle Thread Chords

KeyBb Capo5st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays410

Needle Thread by Sleeping At Last is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Bb with a capo on the 5st fret. It uses the chords C, Cm, G, Bb, Am and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Bb
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Intro: C 
                                         Cm        G           Bb 
   When the world welcomes us in, we're closer to Heaven than we'll ever  
 C                                              Cm         G   
know. And they say this place has changed, but strip away all of the  
 Bb    Am               Em          Bb        G      Am            C 
technology and you will see that we are all hunters hunting for something  
         G       C 
that'll make us okay. 
                          Cm      G            Bb          Am 
   Here we lay alone in hospital beds tracing life in our heads, but all  
         Em           Bb            G           Am        C            G 
that is left is that this was our entrance and now it's our exit as we find  
         C 
our way home. 
                Bb        G       Am        G    Bb      G     Am 
   And all the blood and all the sweat that we invested to be loved follows  
Bb  G       Am        G    Bb      G    C 
us into our end where we begin to understand. 
        Bb              G   Bb                 C                 Bb 
   That we are made of love and all the beauty stemming from it. We are made  
  G     Bb                 C                     G 
of love and every fracture caused by the lack of it.  
               C                            Cm           G           Bb 
   "You were a million years of work," said God and his angels with needle  
     C                  Em             Bb     G        Am              Em 
and thread. They kissed your head and said, "You're a good kid and you make  
          C                Bb              G        Am       G 
us proud, so just give your best and the rest will come and we'll see you  
 C 
soon." 
                Bb        G       Am        G     Bb    G      C 
   And all the blood and all the sweat that we invested to be loved follows  
Bb  G        Am       G     Bb     G    C 
us into our end where we begin to understand. 
      
   Maybe Hollywood was right when the credits have and our tears have dried  
          Am         G             Bb       Em   C 
and the answers that we have been dying to find are pieced together and,  
 Bb            C         G     Bb    Am         Bb        G 
somehow, made perfectly mine, mine, mine, made perfectly mine. 
   C                       Bb             C 
   We are made of love and all the beauty stemming from it. We are made of  
 Bb                      C                     G           C       Bb 
love and every fracture caused by the lack of love, caused by the lack of  
 C 
love. 


I tried my best and this sounded right. Hope y'all like it! 
    	

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