I'll Keep You Safe Chords

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I'll Keep You Safe by Sleeping At Last is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Em, Am, Bm and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Intro G 

G 
I’ll keep you safe 
Try hard to concentrate 
C             G 
Hold out your hand 
Can you feel the weight of it 
                        C  
The whole world at your fingertips 
Em        Am       Bm      D   C  Am 
Don’t be, don’t be afraid 
       G               C        Bm   
Our mistakes they were bound to be made 
      D                        G 
But I promise you I’ll keep you safe 
G            Em       G   Em           G    
You’ll be an architect so pull up your sleeves 
                Em         G 
And build a new silhouette 
       C 
In the skylines up ahead 
                   G       D    C  
Don’t be, don’t be afraid 
                                Bm   
Our mistakes they were bound to be made 
      D                     G      
But I promise you I’ll keep you safe 
              Bm      D 
I’ll keep you safe 

    G 
Darkness will be rewritten  
                               Bm 
Into a work of fiction, you’ll see 
       G  
As you pull on every ribbon  
                            Bm 
You’ll find every secret it keeps 
    C                              G 
The sound of the branches breaking under your feet 
The smell of the falling and burning leaves 
C   
The bitterness of winter 
       G 
Or the sweetness of spring 
C 
You are an artist  
         G                   D 
And your heart is your masterpiece 
         Em      G  
And I’ll keep it safe 

Em           G  
Dismiss the invisible 
By giving it shape 
                  Em    G 
Like a clockmaker fixes time 
C 
By keeping the gears in line 
                       G    D   Em   
Don’t be, don’t be afraid 
    C                        Bm  
God knows that mistakes will be made 
      D                       G            Bm      G   
But I promise you I’ll keep you safe 

G 
As you build up your collection 
                                   Bm 
Of pearls that you pulled from the deep 
  G                                                     Bm 
A landscape more beautiful than anything that I’ve ever seen 
    C                              G 
The sound of the branches breaking under your feet 
The smell of the falling and burning leaves 
C 
The bitterness of winter 
       G 
Or the sweetness of spring 
C 
You are an artist  
         G                   D   
And your heart is your masterpiece 
         Em      G  
And I’ll keep it safe 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante