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Speed Of Sound

by Coldplay · posted by TIN_MAN

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Tab
SPEED OF SOUND            COLDPLAY

KEY OF A


 6    5   5   4 -4  5  -5
How long be-fore I get in

-2  -5  -5   -5    -2  -5  5 -4  4
Be-fore it starts, be-fore I be-gin

 6    5   5   4  -4   5  -5
How long be-fore you de-cide

-5   5 -4   4    4 -3b  -4    -3b
Be-fore I know what it feels like

  6    5    4   -4 5 -5
Where to, where do I go

 4  4   -4  5  -5   -4    4     -5  5  -4
If you nev-er try, then you'll nev-er know.

 6    5   5 4  -4   5   -5
How long do I have to climb

-5  5  -4   4   4  -3b  -4   -3b -2  -3b
Up on the side of this moun-tain of mine

Verse 2 same as 1
Look up, I look up at night,
Planets are moving at the speed of light.
Climb up, up in the trees,
every chance that you get,
is a chance you seize.
How long am I gonna stand,
with my head stuck under the sand?
I'll start before I can stop,
before I see things the right way up.

(CHORUS)

 7    7    -6    -5  7    7    -5
All that noise, and all that sound,
 
 7    7    -7  -7 -7 7    -6
All those plac-es I got found.

 -5   -8  -8  -8  -8 -8  -8   7   -7   -6
And birds go fly-ing at the speed of sound,

 5  -8  -8   -8 -8  -8  5  -5
to show you how it all be-gan.

  -7   -7   -7  -7  -7   -7 -6  6    -5
Birds came fly-ing from the un-der-ground,

-5  -5   -4   5   5   5    5   -6  4   -4
if you could see it then you'd un-der-stand

Verse 3 same as 1
Ideas that you'll never find,
All the inventors could never design.
The buildings that you put up,
Japan and China all lit up.
The sign that I couldn't read,
or a light that I couldn't see,
some things you have to believe,
but others are puzzles, puzzling me.

(CHORUS)

Same as Chorus
All those signs, I knew what they meant.
Some things you can invent.
Some get made, and some get sent,
Ooh?
Birds go flying at the speed of sound,
to show you how it all began.
Birds came flying from the underground,
if you could see it then you'd understand,
ah, when you see it then you'll understand

ENJOY!!!
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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