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Julie And The Phantoms – Unsaid Emily Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 9, 2026

ChordsE C#m A B

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[Intro]
E

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

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

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

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[Refrain]
E

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

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

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

[Refrain]
E

[Bridge]
C#m B  A
Ah-ah-ah
C#m B  A
Ah-ah-ah

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

[Outro]
E

How to play Unsaid Emily: key, chords and progression

This is the chords of Unsaid Emily by Julie And The Phantoms on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.

Unsaid Emily by Julie And The Phantoms keeps coming home to E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯). You need 4 chords: E, C#m, A and B.

Most of the song cycles through E – C#m – A – B (I – vi – IV – V in E major), the classic 1950s “doo-wop” progression. In solfa, that is doh – lah – fah – soh. Get these 4 changes smooth and the rest comes quickly.

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.