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Say Anything – An Insult To The Dead Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

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[Verse 1]
Am7
 Failure is angular,
          Em7
 it isn't circle shaped
          D                  Am7
And every fucked mistake's unmade
When I abandoned her and with my
Em                     D
wand-like sex I cast a horrid hex
         Am7
I laid a curse on her,
a curse on her
   Em7       D
La la, la la la la
               Am7
Another wasted verse on her,
gave birth to her
   Em        D
La la, la la la la

[Chorus]
   C  N.C.
Oh God, forgive me Moses,
D        G
Jesus, Allah
       D            Am7
I have made such an awful
            G
regret of today
       D            Am7
I have made such an awesome regret

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[Verse 2]
Am7
I could be more than this
             Em7
With all the time I have
        D             Am7
I am an insult to the dead

You should be over this, the
  Em                 D
infidelities are on account of me
         Am7
And so I cheat on you, I beat on
         Em7            D
you with words and with actions
             Am7
I will never tell the truth,
in debt, aloof
    Em7           D
Without you I'm a fraction

[Chorus]
   G     D
Oh God I have made such
   Am7               G
an awful regret of today
    G               Am7
I have made such an awesome regret
        G
Where I stay
(Too bad this won't come easy)
      D           Am7
Where I lay in my bed
                    G
of needles, where I play
G
(Too bad this won't come easy)
           D
Like I'm a bad child on
  Am7
a baby's birthday

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[Bridge]
                        C
I'll take a permanent vacation,
D                      C
I've got two months to live
D                        C
And all the mental masturbation
D                   C
is just too much to give
D
So I'll go down to where
    C     D               C
the river flows into the sea
D                            C
And you can bathe me in your body
        D              C  D
fluids, you can rescue me

[Interlude]
C  D  C  D  C  D  C  D

[Chorus]
   C
Oh God
(Too bad this won't come easy)
  D
I have made such an
C         D       C
awful regret of today
C
(Too bad this won't come easy)
       D            C          D
I have made such an awesome regret
        C
Where I stay
(Too bad this won't come easy)
      D           C
Where I lay in my bed of
        D        C
needles, where I play
C
(Too bad this won't come easy)
           D
Like I'm a bad child
     C            D
on a baby's birthday

[Outro]
       C   D
Here I lay
      C    D
Here I lay
      C    D
Here I lay
      C    D
Here I lay

How to play An Insult To The Dead: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for An Insult To The Dead by Say Anything on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

An Insult To The Dead by Say Anything sits in G major (one sharp: F♯), and you need 6 chords to play it: Am7, Em7, D, Em, C and G.

Listen for Am7 – Em7 – D – Am7 (ii7 – vi7 – V – ii7 in G major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is reh – lah – soh – reh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Beginner-friendly: on guitar every chord is an open shape, which makes this a good song to learn early on.