Car Radio Chords & Tabs

by twenty one pilots

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Intro / Verse:
BPM: 130
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202, 1, 202, 202, 202, 202, 101, 202, 202, 1, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202, 1, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202, 202]
The acoustic version of this song was not in the right time, so I put chords to all of
the lyrics and fixed the time. The G chord prior to the Am is more of a quick passing
chord. Have fun!

[Intro]
|F       |F    G  |Am      |G       | x2

[Verse 1]
F                          
I ponder of something great
   F                           G   
My lungs will fill and then deflate
     Am            
They fill with fire
Exhale desire
   G            
I know it's dire
My time today

[Hook]
F                    
I have these thoughts
            F   
So often I ought
To replace that slot
 G                 Am  
With what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole
          G 
My car radio
                             F
And now I just sit in silence

[Verse 2]
F                  G      
Sometimes quiet is violent
Am                       
I find it hard to hide it
    G                       
My pride is no longer inside
      F          
It's on my sleeve
My skin will scream
    F          
Reminding me of
         G       Am         
Who I killed inside my dream
                      G         
I hate this car that I'm driving
                       F
There's no hiding for me
                                  F
I'm forced to deal with what I feel
                         G               Am 
There is no distraction to mask what is real
G                              
I could pull the steering wheel

[Hook]
F                    
I have these thoughts
            F   
So often I ought
To replace that slot
 G                 Am  
With what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole
          G 
My car radio
                             F
And now I just sit in silence

[Break]
|F       |F    G  |Am      |G       | x4

[Verse 3]
F                               
I ponder of something terrifying
F                                    G          
'Cause this time there's no sound to hide behind
Am                                           
I find over the course of our human existence
G                                
One thing consists of consistence
F                                    
And it's that we're all battling fear
     F                                       G 
Oh dear, I don't know if we know why we're here
Am             
Oh my, too deep
Please stop thinking
G                                      
I liked it better when my car had sound
F                         
There are things we can do
               F                              G 
But from the things that work there are only two
     Am                              
And from the two that we choose to do
G             
Peace will win
And fear will lose
         F                     
There's faith and there's sleep
    F                       G     
We need to pick one please because
Am                  
Faith is to be awake
            G                     
And to be awake is for us to think
                F                 
And for us to think is to be alive
            F                  
And I will try with every rhyme
     G     Am                 
To come across like I am dying
             G                       F  
To let you know you need to try to think

[Hook]
I have these thoughts
            F   
So often I ought
To replace that slot
 G                 Am  
With what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole
          G 
My car radio
                             F
And now I just sit in silence

[Break]
|F       |F    G  |Am      |G       | x16
(with woahs, and now I just sit I silence, etc)

[Verse 4]
F                          
I ponder of something great
   F                           G   
My lungs will fill and then deflate
     Am            
They fill with fire
Exhale desire
   G            
I know it's dire
My time today

[Hook]
F                    
I have these thoughts
            F   
So often I ought
To replace that slot
 G                 Am  
With what I once bought
'Cause somebody stole
          G 
My car radio
                             F
And now I just sit in silence