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Lovejoy – Knee Deep At Atp Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

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[Verse]
E                         C#m
And every sentence that I spoke
                     F#    A
began and ended in ellipsis
E
Each of eight fingers
         C#m
gripping what he wrote,
         F#
clung on tightly,
        A
like parenthesis
        E              C#m
And for each correctly used
apostrophe,
   F#
I, I could feel my heart sink
  A
inside my chest in front of me
    E
So, maybe the lining
     C#m
of a winter's coat
                F#
mightn't be the best place
                 A
to hide a summer secret
     E
Said every photo that
you took that festival
C#m
got lost in your camera
in an insurance scam
    F#
And though underexposed,
i could see from the quality,
    A
his K Records t-shirt and
you holding his hand

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      E
And I know he took you
to the beach,
      C#m
I can tell from how you
bite on your cheek,
F#
every time the sand falls
          A
from your insoles
             E
And when our eyes meet,
         C#m
all that I can read,
               F#      A
is "you're the b-side".

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[Instrumental]
E C#m F# A  x2

[Chorus]
                E
They said "it's not what you like,
                 C#m
it's what you're like as a person",
      F#
Well, I need new hobbies,
       A
that's one thing for certain
E
Not what you like,
                C#m
but what you're like as a person,
      F#
Well, I need new hobbies,
       A
that's one thing for certain.

How to play Knee Deep At Atp: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for Knee Deep At Atp by Lovejoy on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

Knee Deep At Atp by Lovejoy is built around E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯), with 4 chords in all: E, C#m, F# and A.

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

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