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Matteo Bocelli – For You Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[Intro]
Am  Fmaj7  C  C Dm

[Verse]
Am
These are desperate times
    Fmaj7
You know I hate this time
       C             Dm
 but I stay for you
Am                   Fmaj7
Even if it hurts you know
it’s coming straight
          C      Dm
 from the heart
Am
Might not go to church but
  Fmaj7
 every now and then I still
   C             Dm
 pray for you
     Am
I’ll always sing this loud
    Fmaj7
so you can hear
               C   C
wherever you are

[Chorus]
               Fmaj7
Til there’s no sand
           Am
in the hourglass
          G
Until our future's
            Am
become our past
  G       Fmaj7
Until our youth’s just
        Am
 a photograph
           G   G
I live for you
       Fmaj7            Am
I will run on to broken glass
       G
I will stand in the
         Am
 burning grass
G       Fmaj7
I’d set fire to
              Am
everything I have
             G   G
And it’s for you
         Am  Fmaj7  C  C Dm
It’s for you
         Am  Fmaj7  C  C Dm
It’s for you

[Verse]
Am
We were only kids and
 Fmaj7
 everything was good
         C         Dm
it was positive
Am
Who turned out the lights
      Fmaj7
 and how’d it еver
         C     Dm
get so dark
Am
City to the bеach don’t
 Fmaj7
recognize the streets
            C           Dm
 when your home again
  Am
Until you see the people
     Fmaj7
and everything that made
          C   C
 who you are

[Chorus]
               Fmaj7
Til there’s no sand in
         Am
the hourglass
          G
Until our future’s
            Am
 become our past
  G       Fmaj7
Until our youth’s
             Am
just a photograph
           G   G
I live for you
       Fmaj7
I will run on to

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        Am
broken glass
       G
I will stand in
             Am
the burning grass
G       Fmaj7
I’d set fire to
              Am
everything I have
             G   G
And it’s for you
         Am  Fmaj7  C  C Dm
It’s for you
         Am  Fmaj7  C  C Dm
It’s for you

[Outro]
         Am  Fmaj7  C  C Dm
It’s for you
         Am  Fmaj7  C  C Dm
It’s for you
         Am  Fmaj7  C  C
It’s for you
         Am  Fmaj7  C  C
It’s for you

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How to play For You: key, chords and progression

These are For You chords by Matteo Bocelli on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

For You by Matteo Bocelli is built around C major (no sharps or flats), with 5 chords in all: Am, Fmaj7, C, Dm and G.

Listen for Am – Fmaj7 – C – Dm (vi – IVmaj7 – I – ii in C major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is lah – fah – doh – reh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Beginner-friendly: every chord is an open chord on guitar, so you can play it without a capo or barre chords.