Belief | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| N.C | N.C |
||: Amb6/D G6 | C6/G Bb6 | Bb6/C – Amb6 | Amb6/D – Bb6 :||
Verse 1
||: Amb6/D G6 | C6/G Bb6 | Bb6/C – Amb6 | Amb6/D – Bb6 :||
Is there anyone who, ever remembers, changing their mind from, the paint on a sign.
Is there anyone who really recalls ever breaking rank at all. For something, someone yelled real loud one time.
Chorus 1
||: Db6/G C6 | C6 Bb6 | Bb6/F Amb6 | Amb6/Bb Bb#11 :||
Oh everyone believes, in how they think it ought to be.
Oh everyone believes, and they’re not going easily.
Instrumental 1
| Amb6/D G6 | C6/G Bb6 | Bb6/C – Amb6 | Amb6/D – Bb6 |
Verse 2
Belief is a beautiful armor, but makes for the heaviest sword. Like punching underwater, you never can hit who you’re trying for.
Some need the exhibition, and some have to know they’ve tried. It’s the chemical weapon, for the war that’s raging on inside.
Chorus 2
Oh everyone believes, from emptiness to everything.
Oh everyone believes, and no one’s going quietly.
Bridge 1
||: Dm7 Gm7 | Gm7 C :||
We’re never gonna win the world, we’re never gonna stop the war.
We’re never gonna beat this if belief is what we’re fighting for.
We’re never gonna win the world, we’re never gonna stop the war.
We’re never gonna beat this if belief is what we’re fighting for.
Instrumental 2 (as instr. 1)
| Amb6/D G6 | C6/G Bb6 | Bb6/C – Amb6 | Amb6/D – Bb6 |
Verse 3
Is there anyone who can remember? Ever surrender, with their life on the line.
Instrumental 3 (as chorus)
||: Db6/G C6 | C6 Bb6 | Bb6/F Amb6 | Amb6/Bb Bb#11 :||
Bridge 2
We’re never gonna win the world, we’re never gonna stop the war.
We’re never gonna beat this if belief is what we’re fighting for.
We’re never gonna win the world, we’re never gonna stop the war.
We’re never gonna beat this if belief is what we’re fighting for.
Outro (as bridge)
||: Dm7 Gm7 | Gm7 C :||
(||: Na na na na na na, na na na na… :||)
What puts a hundred thousand children in the sand?
Belief can. Belief can.
What puts the folded flag inside his mother’s hand?
Belief can. Belief can.
Belief Chords: Unlock the Magic of Sliding 6 Chords
I had to discard my initial ideas when it came to explaining the chords in Belief.
At first, I was hoping for a classic VI – II – I – VI progression for the intro, verse, and first few instrumental sections. However, the extensions didn’t sit right.
Trying to name the chords, like Dmsus4add9, using iRealPro just didn’t work, and besides, it sounded off.
After some time away from it, I realized what’s happening is that we’re using a series of 6 and b6 chords.
If the chord is 6, it’s major; if it’s b6, it’s minor. Thinking of the chords this way helps make sense of the shapes. The root of the progression still follows a basic VI – II – I – VI movement, but with these more complex chord forms.
It’ll make sense once you get past the first chord, Amb6/D because at its core, it’s just a Dm, right?
Only when you go through the full progression will calling it Amb6/D make sense, which goes like this:
||: Amb6 – G6 | C6 – Bb6 | Bb6 – Amb6 | Amb6 – Bb6 :||
I know it sounds wild, but just take a look at the tab, and you’ll see 6 and b6 chords! We always play C shapes using strings 5 and 3.
The bass notes add another layer of complexity, making these slash chords even more unusual:
||: Amb6/D G6 | C6/G Bb6 | Bb6/C – Amb6 | Amb6/D – Bb6 :||
The chorus follows the same concept, sliding between 6 chords:
| Db6 – C6 | C6 – Bb6 | Bb6 – Amb6 | Amb6 – Bb#11 |
The basic chords and bass in the chorus are just Gm – C – F – Bb, which means we again use slash chords, like this:
| Db6/G C6 | C6 Bb6 | Bb6/F Amb6 | Amb6/Bb Bb#11 |
At least the bridge is simpler, following a similar movement to the verse but without the crazy extensions and slash chords:
| Dm7 Gm7 | Gm7 C |
Here’s a chord chart that will make perfect sense once you’ve learned Belief’s chords using the TAB and accepted that these are just sliding 6 chords!
Belief Video Guitar Lesson | Course Preview
Above, you can see Sandy Buglass play Belief. I recorded this in 2010.
This video lesson hasn’t been turned into a guitar course, maybe one day it will!
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