Owl City - Designer Skyline: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Designer Skyline" on your guitar with our chord guide. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.

  B            F#          G#m
Affection, the gifted architect
    E        F#        G#m   B     E   G#m F#
Is making a draft and beautiful design
    B           F#       G#m
The options and possibilities
    E            F#   G#m        B  E  G#m F#
Are endless when we connect and realign

Collections of books and documents
Arise and parade around my cluttered desk
Reworking the math and measurements
Until I'm convinced these plans are picturesque
Like mountains in the Midwest

Reaction creates the columns dark
And wide like the roads around Fort Lauderdale
The structures begin to take their shape
Before I've designed the public monorail

The turnpike and high-speed motorway
Connect and enclose the quaint suburban streets
The airport, the broad suspension bridge
The lake and the beach where several rivers meet
Compounded from the spreadsheet

B        E              G#m
A city sparkles in the night
             E
How can it glow so bright?
B           G#m                 E               F#
The neighborhoods surround the soft florescent light
B          E           G#m
Designer skyline in my head
               E
G#stract and still well-read
B              G#m               E            F#
You went from numbered lines to buildings overhead


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

B

Guitar chord B

E

Guitar chord E

F#

Guitar chord F#

G#m

Guitar chord G#m

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Designer Skyline" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Designer Skyline" by Owl City.