Mr. Brightside | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C | Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb :||
Verse 1
| Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C |
Coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine,
| Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb |
gotta, gotta be down because I want it all.
| Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C |
It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
| Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb |
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss.
| Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C |
Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cab,
| Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb |
while he’s having a smoke and she’s taking a drag.
| Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C |
Now they’re going to bed and my stomach is sick,
| Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb |
And it’s all in my head but she’s touching his.
Bridge 1
| Bbm | Bbm | Ab | Ab ||: Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb :||
Chest now. He takes off her dress now, letting me go.
| Bbm | Bbm | Ab | Ab ||: Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb :||
And I just can’t look, it’s killing me and taking control.
Chorus 1
| Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab |
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea. Swimming through sick
| Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab |
lullabies. Choking on your alibis. But it’s just the
| Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab |
price I pay. Destiny is calling me, open up my eager eyes.
| Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab |
‘Cause I’m Mr. Brightside.
Instrumental
||: Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab :||
Verse 2
| Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C |
I’m coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine,
| Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb |
gotta, gotta be down because I want it all.
| Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C |
It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
| Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb |
(It was only a kiss), it was only a kiss.
| Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C |
Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cab,
| Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb |
while he’s having a smoke and she’s taking a drag.
| Dbadd9 | Dbadd9/C |
Now they’re going to bed and my stomach is sick,
| Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb |
And it’s all in my head but she’s touching his.
Bridge 2
| Bbm | Bbm | Ab | Ab ||: Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb :||
Chest now. He takes off her dress now, letting me go.
| Bbm | Bbm | Ab | Ab ||: Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb :||
And I just can’t look, it’s killing me and taking control.
Chorus 2
| Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab |
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea. Swimming through sick
| Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab |
lullabies. Choking on your alibis. But it’s just the
| Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab |
price I pay. Destiny is calling me, open up my eager eyes.
| Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab |
‘Cause I’m Mr. Brightside.
Instrumental 2
||: Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab :||
Outro
||: Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab :|| x4
I never, I never, I never, I never.
Mr. Brightside’s chords, progression, and TAB
There’s a lot of production on the original recording, making it difficult to define a simple part that works when you play Mr. Brightside’s chords with a band, as the only guitarist.
Use the chords and lyrics above to find something that works for you for the bridge, chorus, and instrumental sections.
Luckily, the main riff which opens up the tune and then makes up the verse is what everyone knows and that is played in a specific way. Here’s TAB for how to play Mr. Brightside’s main riff.
A static Dbadd9 chord is played in a strange hybrid shape covering both the C and A-shaped chords.
This is then varied by changing the bass line from Db – C – Gb. I don’t know about you but I feel this must have been used as a reference track (industry speak for stealing) when Walk The Moon put together their hit Shut Up and Dance.
Anyway, here are the bridge chords, play VI – V – I/IV twice (it’s the intro chord at the end):
| Bbm | Bbm | Ab | Ab ||: Dbadd9/Gb | Dbadd9/Gb :||
The chorus, instrumental and outro chords are just: I – IV – VI – V. In the key of Db, that becomes this:
||: Db5 | Gb | Bbm | Ab :||
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The Killers
Formed in Las Vegas in early 2001, The Killers released a debut single that would become every cover band’s encore for years to come.
The band is best known for the tunes Mr. Brightside, Somebody Told Me, When You Were Young, Bones, and Human.
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