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Hozier – Damage Gets Done Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[Intro]
  G  Em   C    C
G  Am   C   C

[Verse 1]
        G    Em C
Without shame,  two outfits
            G     Am
then to my name
      C
You'd end up in one
            G     Em
when you'd stay
      C                G
We had nowhere to go and every
 Am       C
 desire for going there
       G     Em       C
Iheard once, it's the comforts
                   G     Am
that make us feel numb
        C
We'd go out with no way
        G
to get home
         Em       C
And we'd sleep on somebody's
floor
      G          Am
and wake up feeling like
       C
 a millionaire

[Pre-Chorus]
G          C            D
Wish I had known it was just
      Em
 our turn (We just got by)
      G            C
Being blamed for a world we
     D        Em
 had no power in (But we tried)
G       C     D          Em
You and I had nothin' to show
(We didn't know)
        G           C
But the best of the world
        D           Em
in the palm of our hands
(Anything darlin')

[Chorus]
    G      Em C
And darlin',  I haven't
               G     Am
 felt it since then
  C                          G
I don't know how the feelin' ended
    Em           C
But I know being reckless and young
   G           Am          C
Is not how the damage gets done

[Verse 2]
G        C        D        Em
One time we would want for nothin'
 (One time we had it all, love)
G       C        D        Em
We knew what our love was worth
 (When we had nothing)
G         C      D       Em
Now we're always missing something
(I miss when)
G      C       D
I miss when we did not
 need much

[Verse 3]
G Em         C
  Oh, if the car ran,
              G      Am
 the car was enough
       C
If the sun shone on us,
         G
 it's a plus
        Em       C
And the tank was always
 filled up
G     Am            C
Only enough for our gettin'
 there

Feel free to use our free Chord Shape Generator to see every chord in this song on guitar, ukulele and piano.

[Pre-Chorus]
G          C            D
Wish I had known it was just
      Em
 our turn (We just got by)
      G            C
Being blamed for a world we
     D        Em
 had no power in (But we tried)
G       C     D          Em
You and I had nothin' to show
(We didn't know)
        G           C
But the best of the world
        D           Em
in the palm of our hands
(Turn back darlin')

[Chorus]
    G      Em C
And darlin',  I haven't
               G     Am
 felt it since then
  C                          G
I don't know how the feelin' ended
    Em           C
But I know being reckless and young
   G           Am          C
Is not how the damage gets done

[Instrument]
Em            D  Am
  Hey hey hey     Yeah yeah
 yeah yeah
     G              C
 (My dear, we never learn) Hey hey
     D    G
 Hey hey   Yeah yeah yeah yeah
  Em                 C
 (All our chance was gone) Hey hey
     D    Am
 Hey hey
     G             C     D    G
 My dear, we never learn
 When all our chance was

[Outro]
G     C      G   D   Em
All I needed was someone
G        C          G     D    Em
When the whole wide world felt young
G     C      G   D   Em
All I needed was someone
G        C          G     D    Em
When the whole wide world felt young

How to play Damage Gets Done: key, chords and progression

These are chords by Hozier & Brandi Carlile on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

Damage Gets Done by Hozier is built around G major (one sharp: F♯), with 5 chords in all: G, Em, C, Am and D.

The backbone of the song is D – Em – G – C (V – vi – I – IV in G major). In solfa, that is soh – lah – doh – fah. Practise these 4 changes until they feel natural and you can play most of it.

Beginner-friendly: on guitar every chord is an open shape, which makes this a good song to learn early on.