Faded ukulele

Faded

• D5

Faded by Kate DeAraugo


CHORDS:
    D5  E5  F5  F#m  D   A  E/G#  A*  E   B5  G5  A5

VERSE:
Keyboards add extra notes forming full harmony of:
|Dmaj7         |E      Esus4  |
Lead-in to chorus:
|D      D(#11) |Esus4  F      |

CHORUS:
Half-barre throughout  F#m D A E/G#  sequence
using thumb on 6th-string
...or use power chords throughout!


VERSE:
D5          `    E5               `
  You never take take the time to really look
D5            `       E5    `
  Look at the one the one I really
D5            `      E5          `
Am you try to fit to fit me in a perfect box
D5           `       E5        F5
  You let me slip be-tween the cracks now I'm

CHORUS-1:
F#m  D      A       E/G#
Faded  into someone else made me
F#m       D           A*  E
Someone I don't wanna be    yeah I'm
F#m  D         A       E/G#
Faded  my true colours gone like a
F#m     E      D   `
Picture nobody sees

VERSE:
D5             `           E5           `
  I'll bet you don't don't even know my favourite song
D5            `       E5       `
  You tell me how how I should wear my
D5             `      E5           `
Hair you wanna change everything I ever was
D5         `           E5      F5
  Try to e-rase me til I'm not there now I'm

CHORUS-1:
F#m  D      A       E/G#
Faded  into someone else made me
F#m       D           A*  E
Someone I don't wanna be    yeah I'm
F#m  D         A       E/G#
Faded  my true colours gone like a
F#m     E      D   ' 'F5
Picture nobody sees

CHORUS-2:
F#m  D        A     E/G#
Faded  like I never was til I
F#m        D       A*  E
Don't even know my-self  yeah I'm
F#m  D      A        E/G#
Faded  into what you want but I'm
F#m        E      D   `
Not taking it too well

BRIDGE:
B5            `              G5              `
I don't wanna be your little picture perfect pretty
D5             `          A5  `
Girl who's got nothing to say
B5            `           G5             `
I'm not gonna wait around let you run my whole life down so
D5              `        E5  `
You can watch me  fade a-way___

SOLO-CHORUS:
F#m   D    A     E/G#
Faded faded  you try to fit
F#m            D          A  E
Fit me in your perfect box
F#m   D    A     E/G#
Faded faded  you try to fit
F#m            E          D  `
Fit me in your perfect box

VERSE-HALF:
breakdown
D5           `   E5          `
  You try to fit fit me in a perfect box
D5           `        E5       F5
  You let me slip bet-ween the cracks now I'm

CHORUS-1:
      
F#m  D      A       E/G#
Faded  into someone else made me
F#m       D           A*  E
Someone I don't wanna be    yeah I'm
F#m  D         A       E/G#
Faded  my true colours gone like a
F#m     E      D   '    'F5
Picture nobody sees  now I'm

CHORUS-2:
F#m  D        A     E/G#
Faded  like I never was til I
F#m        D       A*  E
Don't even know my-self  yeah I'm
F#m  D      A        E/G#
Faded  into what you want but I'm
F#m        E      D   ' 'F5
Not taking it too well   I'm

CHORUS-AD-LIB:  (fade on repeat)
F#m   D       A          E/G#
Faded hate it slippin' a-way as I
Faded______________________

F#m   D           A*  E
Disap-pear in the dark  I'm
____________________

F#m   D       A        E/G#
Faded hate it so far a-way from
Faded____________________

F#m   E          D    ' 'F5
Who I was at the start   I'm
___________________

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