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Lana Del Rey – Dark But Just A Game Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

ChordsCmCm/BbCm/AG#G#7 G C Bb Am E7 F G#dimAm/GAm/CC/A

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[Verse 1]
Cm                    Cm/Bb
"It's dark but just a game"
                     Cm/A     G#
That's what he would say to me
Cm                   Cm/Bb
The faces aren't the same
                      Cm/A          G#
But their stories all end tragically
                   Cm
Sweet, w-whatever, baby
                        Cm/Bb
And that's the price of fame
                 Cm/A          G#
A tale as old as time, you'd be
                   Cm
Sweet, w-whatever, baby
                   Cm/Bb
A pretty little fool
To think exceptions to the rule,
Cm/A
just walk around
             G#7
Like you and me this way

[Pre-Chorus]
Cm                               Cm/Bb
But life is sweet, w-whatever, baby
You gotta take them
                 Cm/A
for what they've got
                                G
And while the whole world is crazy
                                  C
We're getting high in the parking lot

[Chorus]
        Bb               Am
We keep changing all the time
    E7                   F
The best ones lost their minds
   G             C
So I'm not gonna change
      Bb      Am
I'll stay the same
   E7               F
No rose left on the vines
      G    G#dim       Am
Don't even want what's mine
     Am/G     F   E7
Much less the fame
     F        G      Am  Am/G
It's dark but just a game
     F        G      C
It's dark but just a game

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[Instrumental]
C  G  Am  F
C  G  G#dim  Am  F

[Verse 2]
Cm                   Cm/Bb
It's dark but just a game
                  Cm/A    G#
So play it like a symphony
Cm                      Cm/Bb
You know our love's the same
                        Cm/A  G#
They'll both go down in infamy
Cm                        Cm/Bb
I was a pretty little thing
                       Cm/A
And got a lot to sing, but
                        G#7
Nothing came for me the one but pain
    Cm
But fuck it

[Pre-Chorus]
                           Cm/Bb
Life is sweet, w-whatever, baby
                      Cm/A
Don't ever think it's not
                         G
While the whole world is crazy
                                C
We're making out in the parking lot

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[Chorus]
        Bb               Am
We keep changing all the time
    E7                   F
The best ones lost their minds
   G             C
So I'm not gonna change
      Bb      Am
I'll stay the same
   E7               F
No rose left on the vines
      G    G#dim       Am
Don't even want what's mine
     Am/G     F   E7
Much less the fame
     F        G      C
It's dark but just a game
        Bb               Am
We keep changing all the time
    E7                   F
The best ones lost their minds
   G             C
So I'm not gonna change
      Bb      Am
I'll stay the same
   E7               F
No rose left on the vines
      G    G#dim       Am
Don't even want what's mine
     Am/C     F   E7
Much less the fame
     F        G      Am  Am/G
It's dark but just a game
     F        G      C   C/A  G
It's dark but just a game
     F        G
It's dark but just

How to play Dark But Just A Game: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for Dark But Just A Game by Lana Del Rey on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

Dark But Just A Game by Lana Del Rey is built around B♭ major (two flats: B♭, E♭), with 15 chords in all: Cm, Cm/Bb, Cm/A, G#, G#7, G, C, Bb, Am, E7, F and G#dim and 3 more.

Listen for G – C – Bb – Am (VI – II – I – vii in B♭ major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is lah – reh – doh – te. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Good to know: Cm, Cm/Bb, Cm/A, G# and G#7 are played as barre or movable shapes on guitar. Practise the change into them slowly; on piano and ukulele the same chords are easier.