Berlin chords by Amanda Palmer

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice

When used for piano: play chords backwards, note by note (e.g. E MajorE chord: B, Ab, E MajorE)
This song is about strippers.
Take as you will.

intro: E MajorE AbmAbm A augmentedA A minorAm

   E MajorE            AbmAbm       A augmentedA A minorAm
Your bicycle's chained to the fence outside
    E MajorE           AbmAbm    A augmentedA  A minorAm
There's plenty of offers, but you won't ride
    E MajorE          A augmentedA        C#C# A augmentedA
How you pedal in those is a miracle, miracle
     E MajorE            AbmAbm
And you laugh at yourself as you speed
            A augmentedA F#F#
Through the red lights

D MajorD  A augmentedA
Oh, Berlin
D MajorD             A augmentedA
Nobody knows where you've been
    E MajorE                AbmAbm     A augmentedA A minorAm
In the space where your brain and your heart collide
    E MajorE               AbmAbm        A augmentedA  A minorAm
You're convinced there's a practical place that you can hide
    E MajorE      A augmentedA
And you laugh at the bellhop
C#C#      A augmentedA
Hysterical, hysterical
     E MajorE            AbmAbm       A augmentedA F#F#
With your bag full of dresses and butcher's knives
D MajorD  A augmentedA
Oh, Berlin
D MajorD             A augmentedA
Nobody knows where you've been

     C# minorC#m
But they all look so ugly and mean when you're sober
    A augmentedA
You've auctioned away all your crimson and clover
   F#F#
When Ronnie leaves lines out and lights up the curtain
  A minorAm
You know what you're doing, you know it for certain
  C# minorC#m
The last thing I saw, they were reading your rights
     A augmentedA
If you're gonna go down, then you're going down fighting
  F#F#
As long as you're bent

And as long as they're watching
    A minorAm
You're gonna make rent
    F#F#        E MajorE A augmentedA
You got no other option

C# minorC#m
What?
            A augmentedA   F#F# F# minorF#m
Did you think you were worth my while?
           C# minorC#m  A augmentedA F#F#
Did you think I would cramp my style?
        C# minorC#m A augmentedA F#F#
That if I had a say in it
           C# minorC#m A augmentedA E MajorE    A augmentedA
That I'd sit here and bite my lip and listen

C# minorC#m
What? (What?)
          A augmentedA  F#F# F# minorF#m
Do you think that I come off bored?
         C# minorC#m A augmentedA F#F#
Paid a fortune to be ignored?
           C# minorC#m A augmentedA  F#F#
Did you think that I come here out
         C# minorC#m A augmentedA  F#F#
of the goodness of my own heart

      A augmentedA      F#F#       A augmentedA
To work on an assembly line of broken hearts?
F#F#       A augmentedA       F#F#         A augmentedA
Not supposed to fix them, only strip and sell the parts

C# minorC#m A augmentedA  F#F#      C# minorC#m A augmentedA  F#F#
Oh, oh, oh      Oh, oh, oh oh oh

(same as before)
It’s hard to work
On an assembly line of broken hearts
Not supposed to fix them, only strip and sell the parts

(same as intro)
Your bicycle's chained to the fence outside
There's plenty of offers, but you won't ride
How you pedal in those is a miracle
A augmentedA miracle

And you laugh at yourself