Faultlines Chords
by Suede
Faultlines by Suede is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of F#m. It uses the chords F#m, Bm, D, C#m and C#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: F#m Bm D C#m C#
Verse (0:16)
F#m Bm
With the sunrise burning into your green eyes,
D C#m C#
Adam and Eve on faultlines greet the golden dawn.
F#m Bm
Is it birdsong or is it just the car alarms
D C#m C#
Making us feel so young, naked as the faun?
Chorus (0:52)
F#m C#m C#m F#m
Celebrate the pale dawn, celebrate the birdsong,
F#m C#m
Celebrate, this is your time,
C#m F#m
Although we live in the wreckage and on the faultlines.
Guitar break (1:25)
e---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------------|
B---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------------|
G---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------------|
D---------------|---------------|---------------|--------0-2----------|
A--------0-2----|--------0-2-4--|--------0-4-2--|--2-2-4-----4-4-5-4--|
E--2-2-4-----2--|--2-2-4--------|--2-2-4--------|---------------------|
F#m C#
And everything we own is not everything we are,
Bm C#
With every word we breathe, we live, we live again.
Verse with piano (1:43)
e---------7--9--|---------7--|----------7-10-9--|
B--7-9-10-------|--7-9-10----|--7-9-10----------|
G---------------|------------|------------------|
D---------------|------------|------------------|
A---------------|------------|------------------|
E---------------|------------|------------------|
x2 x2
F#m Bm
And you love me more than I deserve to be,
D C#m C#
The palace of cards you built for me is all just paper now.
F#m Bm
Is it birdsong or is it just the car alarms
D C#m C#
Making me feel so young and savage like the dawn?
Chorus (2:18)
F#m C#m C#m F#m
Celebrate the pale dawn, celebrate the birdsong,
F#m C#m
Celebrate, this is your time,
C#m F#m
Although we live in the wreckage and on the faultlines.
Guitar break (2:50)
e---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------------|
B---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------------|
G---------------|---------------|---------------|---------------------|
D---------------|---------------|---------------|--------0-2----------|
A--------0-2----|--------0-2-4--|--------0-4-2--|--2-2-4-----4-4-5-4--|
E--2-2-4-----2--|--2-2-4--------|--2-2-4--------|---------------------|
F#m C#
And everything we own is not everything we are,
Bm C#
With every word we breathe, we live, we live again.
Chorus (3:10)
F#m Bm
Celebrate, there is no fear now,
D C#m C#
There is no fear now for us to feel.
Chorus with piano (3:29)
e---------7--9--|---------7--|----------7-10-9--|
B--7-9-10-------|--7-9-10----|--7-9-10----------|
G---------------|------------|------------------|
D---------------|------------|------------------|
A---------------|------------|------------------|
E---------------|------------|------------------|
x2 x2
F#m Bm
Celebrate, there is no fear now,
D C#m C#
There is no fear now for us to feel.
End on (3:45):
F#m
For us to feel.