Reach For The Light Chords

KeyG Capo6st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays534

Reach For The Light by Tim Be Told is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 6st fret. It uses the chords G, Em, C2, D/F#, D and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			 

Intro:  G   Em  C2 

Verso 1:
 
G	 	D/F#			Em			C2 
You cry yourself to sleep while you bury your emotions inside 
G	 	D/F#			Em			C2 
And dug yourself to deep and a part of you is starting to die 
G	 				D/F#	 
You called out from out from under the fallout  
		Em			    C2 
but none of the soldiers could hear a sound 
	G	 		D/F#			        Em			     C2 
Thinking maybe 'someone will save m'e but all of the lifeboats keep letting you drown 


G		D		Em		C 
So you try to save yourself but they rescued somebody else 
G		D		Em		C 
Hold tight it'll be alright reach for the light at the edge of the dark 


G	 		D/F#				Em			C2 
Their words won't break your bones but they'll drive your spirit into the ground 
G	 	   D/F#		 Em				C2 
THey took their sticks and stones, torch and tearing everything down 
G	 			   D/F#		 	Em			C2 
No one turned up so you were burned up, stuck in the fire you couldn't put out 
	G	 			 	 D/F#		 	 
Screaming "save me, send down some rain please" 
		Em			C2 
hoping the heavens could hear you shout 

Bridge:  
Em   D/F# 
Be not afraid 
G  	C 
Be not afraid 

Ending: 
G		  C 
Hope is alive,  Hope is alive 
    	

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