Calm Me Down chords by American Authors

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G minorGm

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
G7G7             G minorGm   F/CF/C  FF DmDm
I need you here to calm me do------------own
      Bb majorBb       G minorGm  F/CF/C FF DmDm
I need you here to calm me down

Verse 1:
Gm7Gm7       FF       Dm7Dm7
That day in New York, I spun out
             Eb MajorEb
I fell short, but I felt close to you
G minorGm       FF        Dm7Dm7
One night in Detroit, I thought there
       F/AF/A
Was no point but I felt close to you

Pre-Chorus:
G minorGm             F/CF/C
Everyone tellin' me what to do
        DmDm
What to think, where to be
                        Eb/GEb/G
But every day, every day, every day's fillin' up with my anxiety
        C minorCm
I can barely open up my eyes
            DmDm
Open up my eyes, eyes, eyes

Chorus:
            Bb majorBb   FF  DmDm
I need you here to calm me do------own
  Ebmaj9Ebmaj9         FF  D MajorD
I need you here to calm me do---wn
           G minorGm
I don't know if I can stay strong
         FF
Hold on, for too long
   DmDm
I've been lost
  Eb MajorEb          C9C9 FF   DmDm
I need you here to calm me  do----wn
  Eb MajorEb         Bb majorBb
I need you here to calm me

Verse 2:
     G7sus    FF
That day in Brooklyn, I spun out
   C minorCm               Bb majorBb
You jumped in and I felt close to you
         FF
One night in LA, I thought there
  Dm7Dm7     Eb MajorEb
Was no way but I felt close to you

Pre-Chorus:
     Gm9Gm9
Everyone tellin' me what to do
   Gm9Gm9
What to think, where to be
DmDm                            Bb majorBb
But every day, every day, every day's fillin' up with my anxiety
    Gm7Gm7       FF
I can barely open up my eyes
      FF
Open up my eyes, eyes, eyes

Chorus:
Eb MajorEb             FF   DmDm
I need you here to calm me do----own
          Ebmaj9Ebmaj9  Bb/FBb/F Dm7Dm7
I need you here to calm me do-----own
Bb/DBb/D            G minorGm
I don't know if I can stay strong
           DmDm
Hold on, for too long
DmDm
I've been lost
        Bb majorBb     FF  DmDm
I need you here to calm me do--wn

Post-Chorus:
Eb MajorEb             FF
I need you here to calm me
    D MajorD
Down, down
        G/BG/B
I need you here to calm me
FF
Down, down
Bb/DBb/D
I need you here to calm me

Instrumental:
|E minor 7Em7 |E minor 7Em7 |Bb/FBb/F

Bridge:
              C majorC
Everyone tellin' me what to do
C majorC
What to think, where to be
                E minor 7Em7               Gm/F#
But every day, every day, every day's fillin' up with my anxiety
            C/EC/E
I can barely open up my eyes
C/EC/E
Open up my eyes
             F/AF/A
All this paranoia's got my vision going blind
G minorGm              FF
Everybody tellin' me where to go

How to live, how to see
              G minorGm            FF
But every day's, every day's, every day's fillin' up with insecurities
G minorGm
I can barely open up my eyes
C minorCm
Open up my eyes, eyes, eyes
  Bb majorBb           FF  DmDm
I need you here to calm me do---wn
            Gm7Gm7 F/CF/C  FF
I need you here to calm me  do----wn

Chorus:
  Ebmaj9Ebmaj9         FF   D MajorD
I need you here to calm me do----wn
  Ebmaj9Ebmaj9       AbMaj9Abmaj9  FF   D MajorD
I need you here to calm me    do----wn
   Eb MajorEb
I don't know if I can stay strong
FF
Hold on, for too long
   D MajorD
I've been lost
  Eb MajorEb         G minorGm    FF   DmDm
I need you here to calm me do-----------own

Post-Chorus:
  Eb MajorEb         G/BG/B
I need you here to calm me
G+G      Bb/DBb/D
Down, down
            A7sus
I need you here to calm me
   FF
Down, down
  Ebmaj9Ebmaj9
I need you here to calm me

Outro:
|Dm/C# |Gm9Gm9 |G minorGm |Dm7Dm7 |C/EC/E |