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Charlie Gillespie – Unsaid Emily Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 9, 2026

ChordsE C#m A B

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[Verse 1]
E
First things first
                   C#m
We start the scene in reverse
            A
All of the lines rehearsed
                    B
Disappeared from my mind
      E
When things got loud
          C#m
One of us running out
             A
I should've turned around
                    B
But I had too much pride

[Pre-Chorus 1]
A
No time for goodbyes
B
Didn't get to apologize
A                            B
Pieces of a clock that lies broken

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[Pre-Chorus 1]
A
No time for goodbyes
B
Didn't get to apologize
A                            B
Pieces of a clock that lies broken

[Chorus]
E                  B
If I could take us back,
            C#m      A
If I could just do that
E
And write in every empty space
B
The words "I love you" in replace
C#m                            A
Then maybe time would not erase me
              E     B
If you could only know
        C#m     A
I never let you go
A
And the words I most regret
E                              B
Are the ones I never meant to leave
Unsaid Emily

[Verse 2]
E
Silent days,
C#m
Mysteries and mistakes
              A
Who'd be the first to break?
               B
I guess we're alike that way

[Pre-Chorus 2]
A
He said, she said
B
Conversations in my head
A
And that's just where they're
            B
gonna stay forever

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[Chorus]
E                  B
If I could take us back,
            C#m      A
If I could just do that
E
And write in every empty space
B
The words "I love you" in replace
C#m                            A
Then maybe time would not erase me
              E     B
If you could only know
        C#m     A
I never let you go
A
And the words I most regret
E                              B
Are the ones I never meant to leave
Unsaid Emily

[Bridge]
A  B  E
Ah-ah-ah
A  B  E
Ah-ah-ah

[Chorus]
E                  B
If I could take us back,
            C#m      A
If I could just do that
E
And write in every empty space
B
The words "I love you" in replace
C#m                            A
Then maybe time would not erase me
              E     B
If you could only know
        C#m     A
I never let you go
A
And the words I most regret
E                              B
Are the ones I never meant to leave
Unsaid Emily

How to play Unsaid Emily: key, chords and progression

This is the chords of Unsaid Emily by Charlie Gillespie on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Unsaid Emily by Charlie Gillespie sits in E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯), and you need 4 chords to play it: E, C#m, A and B.

Listen for E – B – C#m – A (I – V – vi – IV in E major), the “four-chord” progression behind countless pop, rock and worship songs: the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is doh – soh – lah – fah. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes D, Bm, G, A (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.