Darker Than Blood Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays387

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

Transpose
Em
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: Em C D (2x) 

Verse 
Em 
Don't you hold your breath 

D 
Cause I'm not coming down 

Em                                 D 
The battlefields have left me only scars 

Em 
I'm floating in the dark 

D 
I'm swimming in the sound 

Em                                   D 
Of voices that should never been apart 

                Am 
Darker than the blood 

C               Em 
Higher than the sun 

D               Am 
This is not the end 

C                Em D 
You are not the only one 

Instrumental 
Em   C   D (2x) 
Am   C   Em   D (2x) 

verse 2 
Em 
Venom on their tongues 

D 
They'll paint it on the walls 

Em                                   D 
Justice doesn't have the strength to hold 

Em 
The higher than they climb 

D 
The harder they will fall 

Em                                       D 
And we will break their bones until they fold 

                Am 
Darker than the blood 

C               Em 
Higher than the sun 

D               Am 
This is not the end 
C                Em D 
You are not the only one 

Instrumental 2 

Em     C   D (2x) 
Am   C   Em   D (4x) 

Bridge  
Em   G   D  A (2x) 

A               Am 
Darker than the blood (Darker than the blood) 

C               Em 
Higher than the sun (Higher than the sun) 

D               Am 
This is not the end (This is not the end) 

C                Em   D 
You are not the only one (You are not the only one) 

Instrumental 
Am   C   Em   D 
 
Am                  C 
This is not the end (You are not the only one) 

Em                   D    Am   C                Em 
You are not the only one       (Higher than the sun) 

D                     Am 
(This is not the end) This is not the end 

 C                         Em              D 
(You are not the only one) You are not the only one 

Outro  
Em      C   D (4x) 
    	

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.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante