You Are An Airplane Chords
by Of Montreal
You Are An Airplane by Of Montreal is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C#. It uses the chords C#, F#, B, B/A#, G#m, G#, Bm, D#, G, A#, Cm, Am, F, A and Gm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
guitar riff #1:
e|------------------------------|
B|------------------------------|
G|------------------------------|
D|------3-3-3-4-6-----4-4-4-3-1-|
A|-4-4-4-4-4--------------------|
E|---------------2-2-2-2-2------|
guitar riff #2:
e|-------------|
B|-4-2---------|
G|----4-3-1----|
D|---------4-1-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
guitar riff #3:
e|----------------------------------|
B|-11-11-11-13-10-8-10-11-11-10-8-7-|
G|----------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------|
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| C# | F# | C# | F# |
(guitar riff #1 x2)
C# F#
just before the afternoon creeps in
C# F#
just before it gets too hot to be outside
B B/A# G#m
I like to lay on my back in the grass and
B B/A# G#m G#
watch the airplanes go by and I dream
Bm F# B C#
that you are an airplane shooting across the sky
D# G
you are an airplane
G# A# G#m
you’re a strong and dangerous machine
D# G
when you fall you’ll fall down so fast
G# A# Cm
when you crash I want to go down with you
G# A#
we’ll make such a horrible mess
| C# | F# | C# | F# |
(guitar riff #1 x2)
C# F#
just before the eyeball appears
C# F#
just before the little birds go to sleep
B B/A# G#m
I like to stand on my head and pretend
B B/A# G#m G# Bm F#
that I am a control tower and that you are an airplane
B C#
and I talk you safely to the ground
D# G
you are an airplane
G# A# G#m
you’re a strong and dangerous machine
D# G
when you fall you’ll fall down so fast
G# A# Cm
when you crash I want to go down with you
G# A#
we’ll make such a horrible mess
Am G F
the way you live your life makes me nervous
F
if you were to die
| A# |
F A A# Am
I’d have no reason to be alive
Am Gm
'cause you are my only friend
(guitar riff #2 x2)
D# G
you are an airplane
G# A# G#m
you’re a strong and dangerous machine
D# G
when you fall you’ll fall down so fast
G# A# Cm
when you crash I want to go down with you
G# A#
we’ll make such a horrible mess
| A# |
(guitar riff #3)