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Ber, Charlie Oriain – Meant To Be Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

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These are the chords for Meant To Be by Ber, Charlie Oriain on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Intro]
Fm  Db  Ab
Fm  Db  Ab

[Verse 1]
Fm      Db               Ab
When I cook you do the dishes
               Fm
And when I'm working late,
 Db             Ab
you record the game
So I don't miss it
           Fm             Db
And we're good at taking on
              Ab
each other's issues
            Fm
But we're bleeding through
    Db
the band-aids
             Ab
And we're crying through the tissues

[Pre-Chorus]
          Fm          Db
And it's kind of romantic
        Ab       Eb
How overdramatic, we are
Fm        Db            Ab
And it's got us this far

[Chorus 1]
                        Fm
But I think you're the one,
     Db      Ab
for someone else
     Eb                 Fm         Db
And that shit's hard to say, it's okay
              Ab            Eb
You feel the same and I can tell
      Fm              Db
It's hard to leave us in the past
      Ab            Eb
But perfects just a lot to ask
       Fm
We're meant to be,
    Db         Ab      Eb
not made to last
         Fm
We were meant to be,
 Db               Ab
just not made to last

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[Verse 2]
Fm       Db             Ab
I don't wanna keep you waiting
              Fm        Db
It's not as simple as a yes or no
      Ab
It's kind of complicated
    Db              Eb        Db
But I would leave a 5-star review,
           Ab
ten-out-of-ten
     Db              Ab           Eb
Recommend you to a friend, if I could

[Chorus 1]
                        Fm
Cause I think you're the one,
   Db      Ab
for someone else
     Eb                 Fm
And that shit's hard to say,
      Db
it's okay
              Ab            Eb
You feel the same and I can tell
      Fm              Db
It's hard to leave us in the past
      Ab            Eb
But perfects just a lot to ask
       Fm              Db         Ab
We're meant to be, not made to last

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[Chorus 2]
     Eb                Fm
Cause we put too much pressure,
Db       Ab
on ourselves
 Eb         Fm      Db
Keeping up appearances
            Ab       Eb
To please everybody else
       Fm             Db
It's hard to leave us in the past
       Ab            Eb
But perfects just a lot to ask
      Fm
We're meant to be,
 Db                Ab      Eb
just not meant to last
         Fm
We were meant to be,
 Db               Ab      Eb
just not made to last
         Fm
We were meant to be,
 Db               Ab      Eb
just not made to last
         Fm
We were meant to be,
 Db               Ab
just not made to last

How to play Meant To Be: key, chords and progression

Meant To Be by Ber, Charlie Oriain is centred on A♭ major (four flats: B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭). The song uses 4 chords: Fm, Db, Ab and Eb.

The progression the song keeps returning to is Db – Ab – Eb – Fm (IV – I – V – vi in A♭ major), a rotation of the four-chord pop progression that starts on the IV chord. In solfa, that is fah – doh – soh – lah. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 1st fret and play the shapes Em, C, G, D (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 0% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.