Jan192023

boygenius – Emily I’m Sorry Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsB E F#

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These are Emily I’m Sorry chords by boygenius on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Intro]
B

[Verse 1]
       B            E
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
  E        F#
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#              E        F#
She called me a fuckin' liar

[Chorus]
    E
And Emily (Emily),
     B       F#
 I'm sorry, I just
E             B      F#
Make it up as I go along
    E             B       F#
Yet, I can feel myself becoming
(I can feel myself)
E             B        F#
Someone only you could want

[Verse 2]
       B
Headed straight for
     E
the concrete
      F#        E
In a nightmare screaming
        B           E
Now I'm wide awake, spiraling
    F#              E
And you don't wanna talk
     B                E
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]
E                  B       F#
Emily (Emily), I'm sorry, baby
E              B
You know how I get when
     F#
I'm wrong (You know how I get)
    E             B      F#
And I can feel myself becoming
(I can feel myself)
E            B        F#
Somebody I'm not, I'm not, so
E                  B
Emily (Emily), forgive
      F#
 me, can we
E             B       F#
Make it up as we go along?
    E      B
I'm 27 and I don't know
    F#                     E
 who I am (Don't know who I am)
       B    F#    E    B F# E
But I know what I want

[Outro]
    B      F#    E
Emily, I'm sorry
    B      F#    E B
Emily, I'm sorry
    F#    E
I'm sorry

How to play Emily I’m Sorry: key, chords and progression

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.