Use Somebody | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: C5 | C/E | F | F :|| x 4
Verse 1
||: C5 | C/E | F | F :||
I’ve been roamin’ around, always lookin’ down at all I see.
Painted faces fill the places I can’t reach.
Bridge 1
||: Am | C | F | F :||
You know that I could use somebody.
You know that I could use somebody.
Verse 2
Someone like you and all you know and how you speak.
Countless lovers under cover of the street.
Bridge 2
You know that I could use somebody.
You know that I could use somebody.
Chorus 1
||: C | C/E | F | F :|| x 4
Someone like you (oh, oh, oh… ).
Verse 3
Off in the night, while you live it up, I’m off to sleep.
Wagin’ wars to shape the poet and the beat.
Bridge 3
I hope it’s gonna make you notice.
I hope it’s gonna make you notice.
Chorus 2
||: Someone like me (oh, oh, oh…). :|| x3
Use somebody (oh, oh, oh…).
Middle 8
||: D5 | D5 | F#m | F#m :||
I’m ready now, I’m ready now. I’m ready now.
I’m ready now, I’m ready now. I’m ready now. I’m ready now.
Solo
||: C5 | C/E | F | F :||
(Oh, oh, oh…)
Chorus 3
||: Someone like you, use somebody (oh, oh, oh…). :|| x3
Outro
||: C | C/E | F | F :|| x 4
I’ve been roamin’ around, always lookin’ down at all I see.
Use Somebody Chords: Learn the progressions
Kings Of Leon‘s epic Use Somebody has simple, yet clever chords and progressions.
Mainly moving from I – IV, using the 3rd of chord I to get to IV, the intro, verse, chorus, and solo chords are just this:
||: C5 or C (I) | C/E (I/3) | F (IV) | F :||
The bridge chords swap the C for an Am, like this:
||: Am (VI) | C (I) | F (IV) | F :||
The middle 8 section is outside this key as we play D5 and F#m, like this:
||: D5 | D5 | F#m | F#m :||
This was a modal interchange where instead of being in the key of C/Am, we are in A/F#m, so from Aeolian to Ionian.
In a band with you being the only guitarist, just knowing the chords won’t get you far, you have to design parts that work, simply transcribing what is several layers on the original recording isn’t enough..
I’ve come up with 8 TAB examples that you could simply learn and use in a gig. These will work as the only guitarist in the band and also, if you play Use Somebody’s chords on one acoustic guitar.
Start with these before you tweak them into something of your own. Here’s a link to the TAB lesson: Use Somebody – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Having been through the TAB, a simple chord chart is all you need to remind you of Use Somebody’s chords. Here’s one I made for you.
Two of Kings Of Leon’s best tunes were on the same album!
Found on the 2008 album Only by the Night, just after Sex On Fire, we find Use Somebody, one of Kings Of Leon’s biggest hits.
Chart success was immense, for example, in the U.K., it stayed in the charts for 40 weeks, then temporarily dropped out for a week as Michael Jackson died and all his old tunes went back in the charts.
Following the absence of just one week, Use Somebody came back in and stayed for another 20 weeks. All in all, Use Somebody has spent 75 weeks in the U.K. charts making it the 14th longest chart runner of all time.
It didn’t do too badly worldwide, hitting the top 10 in a further thirteen countries.
I was in 2008/2009 signed to the same label as Kings Of Leon (RCA), it was funny to see how the A&R guys were desperate to find the next Kings Of Leon as if they had discovered a formula that could be replicated.
Use Somebody Chords | Related Pages
Use Somebody | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play Use Somebody by Kings Of Leon using TAB and chord analysis.
| C5 | C/E | F | F |
I’ve been roamin’ around, always lookin’ down at all I see…
Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics
- Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In Its Spotlight)
- Everlong
- High and Dry
- Molly’s Chambers
- Sex On Fire
Kings Of Leon tunes
Hailing from Nashville, members of the Followill family formed Kings Of Leon and released their debut in 2003.
Their best tunes include Holy Roller Novocaine, Molly’s Chambers, Sex On Fire, Use Somebody, Radioactive, and Pyro.
Kings Of Leon on the web
About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about Use Somebody chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.
