[Intro]B[Verse 1]BE
She's asleep in the backseat
F#E
Looking peaceful enough to me
B
But she's wakin' up
E
inside a dream
F#
Full of screeching
EF#
tires and fire
B
We're comin' back from
E
where no one lives
F#E
Pretty much just veterans
B
When I pointed out
E
where the North Star is
F#EF#
She called me a fuckin' liar
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[Chorus]E
And Emily (Emily),
BF#
I'm sorry, I just
EBF#
Make it up as I go along
EBF#
Yet, I can feel myself becoming
(I can feel myself)
EBF#
Someone only you could want
[Verse 2]B
Headed straight for
E
the concrete
F#E
In a nightmare screaming
BE
Now I'm wide awake, spiraling
F#E
And you don't wanna talk
BE
Just take me back to Montreal
F#
I'll get a real job,
E
you'll go back to school
B
We can burn out in
E
the freezing cold
F#E
And just get lost
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[Chorus]EBF#
Emily (Emily), I'm sorry, baby
EB
You know how I get when
F#
I'm wrong (You know how I get)
EBF#
And I can feel myself becoming
(I can feel myself)
EBF#
Somebody I'm not, I'm not, so
EB
Emily (Emily), forgive
F#
me, can we
EBF#
Make it up as we go along?
EB
I'm 27 and I don't know
F#E
who I am (Don't know who I am)
BF#EBF#E
But I know what I want
[Outro]BF#E
Emily, I'm sorry
BF#EB
Emily, I'm sorry
F#E
I'm sorry
How to play Emily I’m Sorry: key, chords and progression
These are Emily I’m Sorry chords by boygenius on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.
Emily I’m Sorry by boygenius is in the key of B major (five sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯). The song uses 3 chords: B, E and F#.
The progression the song keeps returning to is F# – E – B – F# (V – IV – I – V in B major). In solfa, that is soh – fah – doh – soh. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.
Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes A, D, E (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 33% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.