Beyond | Chords + Lyrics (capo 6)
Intro
| G (G6) |
||: G (C/G) :|| x4
Verse 1
| G (C/G) | G (C/G) |
Don’t wanna get ahead of myself, feeling things I’ve never felt.
| G (C/G) | G (C/G) | Am |
It’s kinda hard for me to explain, her personality and everything.
| Am |
Brings me to my knees, ooh.
Verse 2
| G (C/G) | G (C/G) |
She shines me up like gold on my arm, I wanna take it slow but it’s so hard.
| G (C/G) | G (C/G) | Am |
I love to see her face in daylight, it’s more than just our bodies at night.
| Am | D |
But she’s really temptin’ me, ooh.
| D | C | C |
Do you think I’m being foolish if I don’t rush in? I-I-I.
Chorus 1
| G | G (C/G) |
I’m scared to death that she might be it, that the love is real, that the shoe might fit.
| G | G |
She might just be my everything and beyond (beyond).
| Am | Am |
Space and time in the afterlife. Will she have my kids? Will she be my wife?
| G (C/G) | G (G6) |
She might just be my everything and beyond.
Verse 3 (as verse 2)
I wanna bring her ’round to meet ya, I think you’d like her kind demeanor.
I know that Grandma would’ve loved her like she was her own.
She makes me feel at home, ooh.
Do you think I’m being foolish if I don’t rush in? I-I-I.
Chorus 2
I’m scared to death that she might be it, that the love is real, that the shoe might fit.
She might just be my everything and beyond (beyond).
Space and time in the afterlife. Will she have my kids? Will she be my wife?
She might just be my everything and beyond.
Middle 8
| G11 | C/G G |
I give up, I’m in love cryin’ out to you.
| G F | C |
Oh me, oh my I can’t explain, she might just be my everything.
| G F | C |
Oh me, oh my I can’t explain, she might just be my everything.
| G F | Am | D |
Oh me, oh my I can’t explain, she might just be my everything.
| D | C | C |
So do you think I’m being foolish if I don’t rush in?
Chorus 3
I’m scared to death that she might be it, that the love is real, that the shoe might fit.
She might just be my everything and beyond (beyond).
Space and time in the afterlife. Will she have my kids? Will she be my wife?
| G F | C |
She might just be my everything and beyond.
Outro
||: G F | C :||
||: O me o my I can’t explain, she might just be my everything. :|| x3
| G F | Am |
She might just be mine, be mine.
Beyond Chords: Learn the progressions
You need to play Beyond with a capo, using mainly G and C/G chords, this is the sound, not using barre chords in the key of Db.
This means that whatever you play on the acoustic can be transferred pretty much intact to the electric in a band.
The first verse chords repeat the G and C/G idea before it first moves to chord II, like this
||: G (I) (C/G) (IV/5) | G (C/G) :||
| Am (II) | Am |
In the second verse, we get a longer end, moving II – V – IV at the end to set up the chorus, like this:
||: G (I) (C/G) (IV/5) | G (C/G) :||
| Am (II) | Am |
| D (V) | D | C (IV) | C |
The chorus chords are still G but less C/G before we go to Am (chord II) and then back to a G chord and find suitable licks using the Major Pentatonic, like this:
| G | G (C/G) | G | G |
| Am | Am | G (C/G) | G |
Initially, I didn’t like the middle 8 and outro section, I felt it was too far away from the verse and chorus and perhaps should have been a different song, but with time, it’s grown on me.
As the first two sections are so diatonic, it’s nice to get some tension with that bVIIx chord (F) which is first hinted at using a G11 (same as F/G).
Once we get going, it’s I – bVIIx – IV. But also, in a way, you could see it as a key change, going to the key of C playing V – IV – I.
These are Beyond’s middle 8 chords, thinking in the key of G.
| G11 (I) | C/G (IV/5) G (I) |
||: G (I) F (bVIIx) | C (IV) :||
| G F | Am (II) |
| D (V) | D | C (IV)| C |
If you think of the middle 8 as a key change to C, you get these Roman Numerals:
| G11 (V) | C/G (I/5) G (V) |
||: G (V) F (IV) | C (I) :||
| G F | Am (VI) |
| D (IIx or V) | D | C (I or IV)| C | (here we are back in the key of G)
Finally, here are Beyond’s outro chords.
| G (I) F (bVIIx) | C (IV) |
| G F | C |
| G F | C |
| G F | Am |
Isn’t it great how it finishes on an Am? I love it.
There is TAB of the intro available. Once you can play this note for note, you’ve unlocked the general strumming pattern. Here’s a link to that part of the lesson: Beyond – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Once you’ve memorised the TAB, a simple chord chart is all you need. Here’s one I made for you (don’t forget the capo on fret 6!).
Beyond Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
With the capo on fret 6, it’s easy to change the key down, should your singer not feel up to it on the night. To get Beyond’s chords right, you need to think in the key of G as the chart says.
You can download this chart, here it is as a PDF: Beyond Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Beyond iReal Pro.
Using this and the iRealPro app you can change the key although as mentioned, I wouldn’t recommend that, move the capo instead!
Good Thing really was a good thing!
Leon Bridges‘ Beyond is from his second album, Good Thing. Released in 2018 it was a new direction compared to his debut, Coming Home (2015)
Whereas the first album was very retro (and Sam Cooke sounding!) the follow-up had more of a modern twist, still maintaining some soul.
Beyond wasn’t a chart hit, although it has started to become more and more popular over the years, very much like Leon himself.
Personally, I keep coming back to listening to the album as a whole, it really is a good thing, and more and more bands I play with have Beyond on their setlist.
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Beyond | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play Beyond by Leon Bridges using TAB and chord analysis.
| G (C/G) | G (C/G) |
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