Breathe Chords

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Breathe by Taylor Swift is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords C, G, D4, C9, D5, D, Em7 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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G
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  			INTRO                                                                                                  C = x32013  
G  D4  C9                                                                                                           D5 = xx0235  
VERSE1  
  G                   D4           C9  
I see your face in my mind as I drive away  
       G                         D4         C9  
'Cause none of us thought it was gonna end that way  
G                         D4                C9  
People are people and sometimes we change our minds  
         G                    D4              C9  
But it's killing me to see you go after all this time  

INTERLUDE  
G           D4            C9  
  Mm mm mm, mm mm mm mmm mmm  
G           D4            C9  
  Mm mm mm, mm mm mm mmm mmm  

VERSE2  
G                            D4          C9  
Music starts playin' like the end of a sad movie  
G                              D4            C9  
It's the kinda ending you don't really wanna see  
            G                D4           C9  
'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down  
    G                   D4               C9  D  D4  
Now I don't know what to be without you around  

PRE-Chorus  
C                         G     
   And we know it's never simple, never easy  
D                       Em7  
   Never a clean break, no one here to save me  
C                       G                        D5  
You're the only thing I know, like the back of my hand  

And I can't  

Chorus  
C       G  D           Em7  
   Breathe   without you, but I have to  
C       G  D           Em7  
   Breathe   without you, but I have to  
C       G  D  

VERSE4  
G                            D4          C9  
Never wanted this, never wanna see you hurt  
G                          D4          C9  
Every little bump in the road I try to swerve  
G                            D4             C9  
People are people and sometimes it doesn't work out  
G                       D4          C9    D  D4  
Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out  

PRE-Chorus  
C                         G     
   And we know it's never simple, never easy  
D                       Em7  
   Never a clean break, no one here to save me  
C                       G                        D5  
You're the only thing I know, like the back of my hand  

And I can't  

Chorus  
C       G  D           Em7  
   Breathe   without you, but I have to  
C       G  D           Em7  
   Breathe   without you, but I have to  
C       G  D           Em7  
C       G  D  

BRIDGE  
    Em                         C  
It's 2 am, feeling like I just lost a friend  
                       G              D  
Hope you know it's not easy, easy for me  
    Em                         C  
It's 2 am, feeling like I just lost a friend  
                         G              D  
Hope you know this ain't easy, easy for me  

PRE-Chorus  
C                         G  
   And we know it's never simple, never easy  
D                     Em7                 C  
  Never a clean break, no one here to save me  
G    D  
  Oh,  I canÂ’t...  

Chorus  
C       G  D           Em7  
   Breathe   without you, but I have to  
C       G  D           Em7  
   Breathe   without you, but I have to  
C       G  D           Em7        C  G  D  
Breathe without you, but I have to  
C       G      D          Em7  
  Sorry, sorry, sorry, yeah, sorry  
C       G      D       C  
  Sorry, sorry, sorry.  

    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante