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Bury A Friend

Billie Eilish

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How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×○○
GmDiagram coming soon
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D××○

Chords & lyrics

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Capo on 3rd fret
              
 
 
Intro 
N.C.    (Gm) 
(Billie) 
 
            Gm 
What do you want from me? 
              Cm 
Why don't you run from me? 
             D 
What are you wondering? 
            Gm 
What do you know? 
 
               Gm 
Why aren't you scared of me? 
           Cm 
Why do you care for me? 
            D 
When we all fall asleep, 
N.C. 
Where do we go? 
 
verse 1 
N.C. 
    (Come here) 
(Gm)                           N.C. 
     Say it, spit it out, what is it exactly? 
(Gm) 
     You're payin'? Is the amount cleaning you out, am I satisfactory? 
(Gm) 
     Today I'm thinking about the things that are deadly 
(Gm) 
     The way I'm drinking you down 
 
     Like I wanna drown, like I wanna end me 
 
Pre-Chorus 
Gm                    Cm 
   Step on the glass, staple your tongue (ah-ah) 
D                 Gm 
   Bury a friend, try to wake up (ah-ah) 
Gm                 Cm 
   Cannibal class, killing the sun (ah-ah) 
D               N.C. 
   Bury a friend    I wanna end me 
 
Gm N.C. Gm N.C. 
 
N.C. 
   I wanna end me 
Gm                           N.C. 
   I wanna, I wanna, I wanna end me 
Gm                           N.C. 
   I wanna, I wanna, I wanna 
 
            Gm 
What do you want from me? 
              Cm 
Why don't you run from me? 
             D 
What are you wondering? 
            Gm 
What do you know? 
 
               Gm 
Why aren't you scared of me? 
           Cm 
Why do you care for me? 
            D 
When we all fall asleep, 
N.C. 
Where do we go? 
 
 
verse 2 
N.C. 
    (Listen) 
(Gm)                     N.C. 
     Keep you in the dark, what, had you expected 
(Gm) 
     Me to make you my art and make you a star 
 
     And get you connected? 
(Gm) 
     I'll meet you in the park, I'll be calm and collected 
(Gm) 
     But we knew right from the start that you'd fall apart 
 
     Cause I'm too expensive 
 
(Gm)                                           N.C. 
     It's probably something that shouldn't be said out loud 
(Gm)                                     N.C. 
     Honestly, I thought that I would be dead by now (wow) 
(Gm)                              N.C. 
     Calling security, keeping my head held down 
(Gm)                               N.C. 
     Bury the hatchet or bury your friend right now 
 
Bridge 
    Gm                Cm 
The debt I owe, gotta sell my soul 
        D                   Gm 
Cause I can't say no, no, I can't say no 
       Gm                     Cm 
And my limbs are froze and my eyes won't close 
      D               Gm 
And I can't say no, I can't say no 
N.C. 
(Careful) 
 
Pre-Chorus 
Gm                    Cm 
   Step on the glass, staple your tongue (ah-ah) 
D                 Gm 
   Bury a friend, try to wake up (ah-ah) 
Gm                 Cm 
   Cannibal class, killing the sun (ah-ah) 
D               N.C. 
   Bury a friend    I wanna end me 
 
Gm N.C. Gm N.C. 
 
N.C. 
   I wanna end me 
Gm                           N.C. 
   I wanna, I wanna, I wanna end me 
Gm                           N.C. 
   I wanna, I wanna, I wanna 
 
            Gm 
What do you want from me? 
              Cm 
Why don't you run from me? 
             D 
What are you wondering? 
            Gm 
What do you know? 
 
               Gm 
Why aren't you scared of me? 
           Cm 
Why do you care for me? 
N.C. 
When we all fall asleep, 
 
Where do we go?

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C · Gm · Cm · D

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.