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Broken Open

Adam Lambert
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
-----------------------E
 Broken pieces, break into me
---------------------------
 So imperfectly what you should be
---------------------D
 I don't want you to go
-----------------------------------E
 Don't wanna see you back out in the cold
---------------------------------------D
 Air you're breathing out fades you to grey
---------------E
 Don't run away, find me
--------------------------------------------------B
 I know the battles of chasing the shadows of who you wanna be
---------------------------E
 It doesn't matter, go on and shatter
----------------E
 I'm all you need
------------------------E
 Broken pieces, break into me
------------------------E
 So imperfectly what you should be
----------------------------------------------------Abm
 Lay here, it's safe here, I'll let you be broken open
-----------------------------------E
 Hide here, confide here so we can be broken open
--------------------D
 Let's enlighten the night
-----------------------------E
 We can fall away, slip out of sight
---------------------E
 When you drop your guard
-------------------------------------
 Melt into time, so intertwined, quiet
--------------------------------------------------B
 I know the battles of chasing the shadows of who you wanna be
---------------------------C#m
 It doesn't matter, go on and shatter
----------------E
 I'm all you need
------------------------E
 Broken pieces, break into me
------------------------E
 So imperfectly what you should be
----------------------------------------------------Abm
 Lay here, it's safe here, I'll let you be broken open
------------------------------------------------------
 Hide here, confide here so we can be broken open
 Instrumental interlude... eventually there's a key change:
------------------------F#
 Broken pieces, break into me
------------------------F#
 So imperfectly what you should be
----------------------------------------------------Bbm
 Lay here, it's safe here, I'll let you be broken open
-----------------------------------F#
 Hide here, confide here so we can be broken open
 Repeat the last two lines without little or no accompaniment.
 You kinda just have to work out a nice picking pattern for yourself; whatever
 works best! I play something like this:
--------0-----------------|
----0------0---0----------|
--1---1------1------------|
--------------------------|
--------------------------|
0-------------------------|
 I transition to the next chord on the last note, generally.
 Well, that's it!
 Good luck and happy playing!

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Readable chord sheet for Broken Open by Adam Lambert

[E]

[E]-------[D]------[A]----------[E]
Broken pieces, break into me
[E]----[D]---------[A]--------------[E]
So imperfectly what you should be

---------------------[D]
I don't want you to go
------------[A]-----------------------[E]
Don't wanna see you back out in the cold
---------------------------------------[D]
Air you're breathing out fades you to grey
----------[A]-----[E]
Don't run away, find me

[Abm]---------[A]----------------------[E]-------------------[B]
I know the battles of chasing the shadows of who you wanna be
[Abm]---------[A]------------------[E]
It doesn't matter, go on and shatter
------------[B]----[E]
I'm all you need

--------[D]-------[A]---------[E]
Broken pieces, break into me
------[D]---------[A]---------[E]
So imperfectly what you should be
[G]--------------[A]--------------------------[E]------------[Abm]
Lay here, it's safe here, I'll let you be broken open
[G]-------------[A]----------------------[E]
Hide here, confide here so we can be broken open

--------------------[D]
Let's enlighten the night
-------------[A]----------------[E]
We can fall away, slip out of sight
---------------------[E]
When you drop your guard
----------[D]------------[A]--------[E]-------
Melt into time, so intertwined, quiet

[Abm]---------[A]----------------------[C#m]-------------------[B]
I know the battles of chasing the shadows of who you wanna be
[Abm]---------[A]------------------[C#m]
It doesn't matter, go on and shatter
------------[B]----[E]
I'm all you need

--------[D]-------[A]---------[E]
Broken pieces, break into me
------[D]---------[A]---------[E]
So imperfectly what you should be
[G]--------------[A]--------------------------[E]------------[Abm]
Lay here, it's safe here, I'll let you be broken open
[G]-------------[A]----------------------[E]-------------------
Hide here, confide here so we can be broken open

Instrumental interlude... eventually there's a key change:

[F#]--------[E]-------[B]---------[F#]
Broken pieces, break into me
------[E]---------[B]---------[F#]
So imperfectly what you should be
[A]--------------[B]--------------------------[F#]------------[Bbm]
Lay here, it's safe here, I'll let you be broken open
[A]-------------[B]----------------------[F#]
Hide here, confide here so we can be broken open

Repeat the last two lines without little or no accompaniment.

You kinda just have to work out a nice picking pattern for yourself; whatever
works best! I play something like this:

[E]

--------0-----------------|
----0------0---0----------|
--1---1------1------------|
--------------------------|
--------------------------|
0-------------------------|

I transition to the next chord on the last note, generally.

Well, that's it!

Good luck and happy playing!

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