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Against The Current – That Won’t Save Us Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

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[Verse]
                    B
What did I hear you say?
C#           D#m
Say it to my face
              F#        C#    B
It's not even worth the fight
                   B
Waiting for you to say
       C#          D#m
What's got you so afraid?
              F#       C#  
I'm not gonna waste my time 
  B
(Waste my time)

[Pre-Chorus]
          B           C#  
Yeah, the bigger they are,
     D#m
 the harder they fall
      F#       C#     
Yeah, I got so sick of
    B
 feeling so small
  B         C#      
I leave you alone to 
 D#m
build up your walls
F#         C#       B  
What did I hear you say?

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[Chorus]
             D#m     C#
How did we become so numb?
               F#     B
We just let it come undone
                   D#m    C#
And I just started giving up
    F#         B
But that won't save us
              D#m     C#
Maybe we were born to fight
                    F#   B
If we wanna make it out alive
                 D#m   C#
We gotta let the anger die
       F#         B      
'Cause that won't save us
 B  C#  D#m  F#  C#  B

[Verse]
                      B
And now we're so far away
       C#         D#m
But we talk every day
Something there, 
    F#         C#    B
it just ain't right
                      B
I'm sinking under the weight
     C#           D#m
It's like I could break
                F#     
I never let you hear my
 C#     B
 cries (Hear my cries)

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[Pre-Chorus]
          B          C#   
Well, the duller the knife,
      D#m
 the deeper the scars
  F#           C#      
I don't need a light to
 B
 see in the dark
  B                C#   
I know what you're like, 
   D#m
I know who you are
What were you gonna say?

[Chorus]
             D#m     C#
How did we become so numb?
               F#     B
We just let it come undone
                   D#m    C#
And I just started giving up
    F#         B
But that won't save us
              D#m     C#
Maybe we were born to fight
                    F#   B
If we wanna make it out alive
                 D#m   C#
We gotta let the anger die
       F#         B      
'Cause that won't save us

[Bridge]
F#                   
Are you proud of what 
       B
we've come to be?
F#                   
We're sorry, but that
       B
 won't save us
D#m
We fucked up and
 I'd give anything
F#
If only that could save us

[Chorus]
             D#m     C#
How did we become so numb?
               F#     B
We just let it come undone
                   D#m    C#
And I just started giving up
    F#         B
But that won't save us
              D#m     C#
Maybe we were born to fight
                    F#   B
If we wanna make it out alive
                 D#m   C#
We gotta let the anger die
       F#         B
'Cause that won't save us

[Outro]
B  C#  D#m  F#  C#  B
B  C#  D#m  F#  C#  B
...
What did I hear you say?

How to play That Won’t Save Us: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for That Won’t Save Us by Against The Current on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

That Won’t Save Us by Against The Current is in the key of F♯ major (six sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯, E♯). The song uses 4 chords: B, C#, D#m and F#.

Most of the song cycles through D#m – C# – F# – B (vi – V – I – IV in F♯ major). In solfa, that is lah – soh – doh – fah. Get these 4 changes smooth and the rest comes quickly.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 4th fret and play the shapes G, A, Bm, D (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 0% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.