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Familiar

Agnes Obel

PopMedium for beginners5 chords

How to play it

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

Em
C×
G
Bm×
A7×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Em                  C             Em       C 
Can you walk on the water with I, you and I? 
Em                                   C                   Em       C 
"Because your blood's running cold" said the familiar, true to life 
Em                    C           Em       C 
Can you walk on the water with I, you and I? 
Em                                 C                   Em              C 
Or keep your eyes on the road and live there familiar, without you and I 
Em                C          Em         C 
It glows with gates of gold, true to life 
 
Em                                 G            Bm 
And our love is a ghost that the others can't see 
             A7 
It's a danger 
Em                         G            Bm 
Every shade of us you fade down to keep 
                       A7 
Them in the dark on who we are 
(Oh what you do to me) 
Em           G          Bm 
Gonna be the death of me 
         A7 
It's a danger 
Em                                    G            Bm    A7 
'Cause our love is a ghost that the others can't see 
 
Em                      C             Em       C 
We took a walk to the summit at night, you and I 
Em                                  C            Em       C 
To burn a hole in the old grip of the familiar, you and I 
Em                         C   Em       C 
And the dark was opening wide, do or die 
Em                      C   Em       C 
Under a mask of a million, ruling eyes 
 
Em                                 G            Bm 
And our love is a ghost that the others can't see 
             A7 
It's a danger 
Em                         G            Bm 
Every shade of us you fade down to keep 
                       A7 
Them in the dark on who we are 
(Oh what you do to me) 
Em           G          Bm 
Gonna be the death of me 
         A7 
It's a danger 
Em                                    G            Bm    A7 
'Cause our love is a ghost that the others can't see 
          
 

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Chord set

Em · C · G · Bm · A7

Practice tip

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