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Fade (acoustic)

Aaron Lewis

RockAdvanced for beginners5 chords

How to play it

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

Em7
D××
G5Diagram coming soon
Fmaj7Diagram coming soon
C×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: Em7  D 
 
Em7                 D 
   I try to breathe 
Em7                    D 
   These memories overtaking me 
Em7                    D 
   I try to face them but 
      Em7                      D 
The thought is too much to conceive 
 
Em7                 D        Em7 
   I only know that I can change 
                       D         Em7 
Everything else just stays the same 
                  D       Em7 
So now I step out of the darkness 
                D 
that my life became 'cause 
 
 
G5 
   I just needed someone to talk to 
Fmaj7/C            C             G5 
You were just too busy with yourself 
           
You were never there for me 
       Fmaj7/C  
To express how I felt 
C                   G5 
I just stuffed it down 
 
Now I'm older and I feel like 
Fmaj7/C          C              G5 
I could let some of this anger fade 
                                 Fmaj7/C 
But it seems the surface I am scratching 
        C          Em7   D 
Is the bed I have made 
 
Em7  D 
 
 
Em7                    D 
   So where were you? 
Em7                      D 
   When all this I was going through 
Em7                    D 
   You never took the time 
   Em7                         D 
To ask me just what you could do 
 
 
Em7                 D        Em7 
   I only know that I can change 
                       D         Em7 
Everything else just stays the same 
                  D       Em7 
So now I step out of the darkness 
                D 
that my life became 'cause 
 
 
 
G5 
   I just needed someone to talk to 
Fmaj7/C            C             G5 
You were just too busy with yourself 
           
You were never there for me 
       Fmaj7/C  
To express how I felt 
C                   G5 
I just stuffed it down 
 
Now I'm older and I feel like 
Fmaj7/C          C              G5 
I could let some of this anger fade 
                                 Fmaj7/C 
But it seems the surface I am scratching 
        C          Em7  G5  D 
Is the bed I have ma-A-A-A-ade 
 
 
 
       Em7      G5   D 
Never meant to fa-a-ade... 
  Em7  G5   D 
Away 
       Em7      G5    D 
Never meant to fade away... 
 
 
G5 
   I just needed someone to talk to 
Fmaj7/C            C             G5 
You were just too busy with yourself 
           
You were never there for me 
       Fmaj7/C  
To express how I felt 
C                   G5 
I just stuffed it down 
 
Now I'm older and I feel like 
Fmaj7/C          C              G5 
I could let some of this anger fade 
                                 Fmaj7/C 
But it seems the surface I am scratching 
        C          Em7   D 
Is the bed I have made 
 
Em7  D 
 
 
Em7                  D 
   I try to breathe... 
 
Em7  D ... 
          
 

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Chord set

Em7 · D · G5 · Fmaj7 · C

Practice tip

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