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Li3a – Not Knowing You Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

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[Intro]
  E   C#m  G#m      E   C#m  G#m

[Verse]
E             C#m         G#m
I know you're thinking of me
E             C#m      G#m
I know you'll never forget
E           C#m               G#m
Sometimes I feel like you're here
E           C#m           G#m
if I tangle things that I fear

[Chorus]
E       C#m     G#m
Someday I can explain to
you just how I
E          C#m           G#m
felt being blind being betrayed
by you oh I can't
E             C#m         G#m
tell how many times I was holding
back not saying a single word
E        C#m        G#m
but it's better than
                   E    C#m   G#m
not knowing you at all
                   E    C#m   G#m
not knowing you at all

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[Verse]
E        C#m      G#m
In every possible way you
are pushing me away
E         C#m         G#m
and every day was the same
E     C#m         G#m
but I ran back to you after
all you put me through
E       C#m       G#m
I myself lost the truth

[Chorus]
E       C#m     G#m
Someday I can explain to
you just how I
E          C#m           G#m
felt being blind being betrayed
by you oh I can't
E             C#m         G#m
tell how many times I was holding
back not saying a single word
E        C#m        G#m
but it's better than
                   E    C#m   G#m
not knowing you at all
                   E    C#m   G#m
not knowing you at all

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E C#m G#m
 ohhhhhh
E C#m G#m
 ohhhhhh

[Chorus]
E       C#m     G#m
Someday I can explain to
you just how I
E          C#m           G#m
felt being blind being betrayed
by you oh I can't
E             C#m         G#m
tell how many times I was holding
back not saying a single word
E        C#m        G#m
but it's better than
                   E    C#m   G#m
not knowing you at all
                   E    C#m   G#m
not knowing you at all
E C#m G#m
 ohhhhhh
E C#m G#m
 ohhhhhh

How to play Not Knowing You: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for Not Knowing You by Li3a on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

Not Knowing You by Li3a is centred on E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯). The song uses 3 chords: E, C#m and G#m.

The progression the song keeps returning to is E – C#m – G#m – E (I – vi – iii – I in E major). In solfa, that is doh – lah – mi – doh. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 4th fret and play the shapes C, Am, Em (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 33% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.