Owl City - Take It All Away: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Take It All Away" 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.

A
A spark soaring down
D
Through the pouring rain
E             F#m          D
And restoring life to the lighthouse
A              D
A slow motion wave on the ocean
  E             F#m         D
Stirs my emotion up like a raincloud

A              D
When did the sky turn black
E                 F#m         D  A F#m D
And when will the light come back

A cab driver turned to skydiver then
To survivor, dying to break down
A blood brother, surrogate mother
Hugging each other, crying their eyes out

F#m            D
When did the sky turn black
E                  F#m        D
And when will the light come back

A             D
I'm ecstatic like a drug addict
 E
Locked in the attic
  F#m            D
Strung out and spellbound

Chorus:
Bm                        D
I fought all through the night
F#m           E
Oh oh, but I made it alive
Bm          D
The sun's starting to rise
F#m               E
Oh oh, these are beautiful times
Bm                D          F#m
This fight of my life is so hard
    E        Bm
So hard, so hard
        A/C#
But I'm gonna survive
D                 E
Oh oh, these are beautiful times

A bad feeling burned through the ceiling
Leaving my healing heart with a new scar
A dead fire rose, and rose higher like
A vampire up from the graveyard

When did the sky turn black?
And when will the light come back?
We all suffer but we recover just
To discover life where we all are

Chorus:
I fought all through the night
Oh-oh, but I made it alive
The sun starting to rise
Oh-oh, these are beautiful times
This fight of my life is so hard, so hard, so hard
But I'm gonna survive
Oh-oh, these are beautiful times
This fight of my life is so hard, so hard, so hard
But I'm gonna survive
Oh-oh, these are beautiful times

My heart's burning bad and it's turning black
But I'm learning how to be stronger
And sincerely, I love you dearly
Oh, but I'm clearly destined to wonder


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

A

Guitar chord A

Bm

Guitar chord Bm

C#

Guitar chord C#

D

Guitar chord D

E

Guitar chord E

F#m

Guitar chord F#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 "Take It All Away" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Take It All Away" by Owl City.