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Porcupine Tree – Of The New Day Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

ChordsA C#m B E G#m F#m G Amaj7 Fmaj7 D F A#G#C#C F#

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These are the chords for Of The New Day by Porcupine Tree on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

[Verse 1]
A                        C#m
 Hold your fear in check my dear
         B
It's got no place here
        E          G#m   A
There's no need to fight
           C#m         B       E
Just drift away on the new day
A                      C#m
Find yourself a better way
            B
To meet the future
     E   F#m   E  G#m   A
It's all that you crave
     C#m            B
A silhouette of the new day

[Interlude]
E  G  A Amaj7  Fmaj7  D
A  Amaj7  Fmaj7  D  N.C.

[Verse 2]
A                       C#m
Walk away from what you love
        B
And all your people
E    F#m  G#m  A
move into fog
          C#m         B       E
But live again on the new day
A
Raise your head and
     C#m
fill your lungs
            B
Breathe the autumn
E     F#m E  G#m  A
Shame to  be down
        C#m           B
In this thrall of the new day
E  G  A

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[Chorus]
                 A F  D
The hour of almost rain
A                       F D  N.C.
When night becomes the day

[Interlude]
A   A# G# C#   B  F  B  Fmaj7
A   G# C#  B  F   B  F  C  F#
C  F# A

[Verse 3]
                        C#m
Daily finds you tearing out
        B
All thе pages
     E    F#m E    G#m      A
That held all your thoughts
         C#m          B       E
When you drеam of the new day
A
It's not the world
             C#m
that shrinks from you
         B
It's the old days
     E    F#m E G#m
that line up  behind
A   C#m             B
Monolith of the new day
E  G  Amaj7

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[Chorus]
                 A  Fmaj7 D
The hour of almost rain
A                       D
When night becomes the day

[Interlude]
A   G# C#   B  F   B  F
A   G# C#   B  F   B  F
C  F#  C  A

[Outro]
C#m  B   E  G#m  A  C#m   B
E  A   F  D

How to play Of The New Day: key, chords and progression

Of The New Day by Porcupine Tree is centred on E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯). The song uses 16 chords: A, C#m, B, E, G#m, F#m, G, Amaj7, Fmaj7, D, F and A# and 4 more.

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

Good to know: C#m, B, G#m, F#m and F are played as barre or movable shapes on guitar. Practise the change into them slowly; on piano and ukulele the same chords are easier.