Coldplay - Square One guitar tab
TUNING
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|6|5|4|3|2|1|
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|E|A|D|G|B|E|
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E-----------------8----------
B----------8----------------- (intro trumpet thing)
G----5-----------------------
INTRO VERSE:
Eb Bb/D Cm7/Eb
You're in control is there anywhere you wanna go?
You're in control is there anything you wanna know?
The future's for discovering
The space in which we're traveling
CHORUS:
Cm Eb Ab
From the top of the first page
Cm Eb Bb/F
To the end of the last day
Cm Eb Ab
From the start in your own way
Bb7 Ab (riff 1) 4x
You just want somebody listening to what you say
F7 (riff 2) 4x
It doesn't matter who you are.
riff 1: riff 2:
B---9-8-6---9-8-6--- B--10-8-6---10-8-6---
G---------8-------8- G---------8--------8-
4 measures of Cm
VERSE: same chords as intro verse, with this riff after each line:
A--3-3-3-6b---3-3-3-3-3-3-6b---3-3-3---
Under the surface trying to break through
Deciphering the codes in you
I need a compass,draw me a map
I'm on the top I can't get back
Whoah. Woah. (some high riff here, i cant get it down)
CHORUS:
First line of the first page
To the end of the last day
You were looking
From the start in your own way
You just want somebody listening to what you say
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are
riff 4: (total 3x)
G------------------| --------3-3-3-5-5--
D--------------5-5-| 3x, then -------------------
A--3-3-3-6-6-6-----| --3-3-3------------
(riff 1)
You just want somebody listening to what you say
You just want somebody listening to what you say
(riff 2)
It doesn't matter who you are
It doesn't matter who you are
the OUTRO is done on an acoustic tuned like this:
TUNING
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|6|5|4|3|2|1|
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|E|A|D|G|C|C|
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Ab Bb
Is there anybody out there who is lost and hurt and lonely too
Cm Bb
But they're bleeding all your colours into one
Ab
And if you come undone as if you'd been run through
Bb
Some catapult it fired you
Cm Bb
You wonder if your chance will ever come
Cm
And if you're stuck in square one.
Ab Bb Cm
C---0----0----0---
C---0----0----0---
G---5----7----8---
D---6----8---10---
A---6----8---10---
E---4----6----8---
The style of acoustic playing (a particuar fretted pattern sliding across the neck and accompanied by a drone notes is similar to other Coldplay songs such as Spies and See You Soon.
send comments, questions, to
Peter House
rockhouse67@hotmail.com
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