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Fontaines D.C. – Mimesis Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[Intro]
E G#m F# x2

[Verse 1]
E                  G#m      F#
Time is never far away for you
    E                           G#m     F#               E
You feel like something in your head is dead inside, for real
                    G#m            F#           E
Well, everybody's depressed, we're running on a wheel
                       G#m        F#            E
I'm here to fight your corner, my heart is open

[Chorus]
  G#m          F#                 E
I drove such a long, long way here
       G#m              F#               E
Your indifference won't make me disappear
    G#m            F#                 E
And surely, you'll wake up in yourself
    G#m       F#               E
But you can't blame nobody else

[Post-Chorus]
G#m F# E
        Ba-da-da-da, da
G#m F#

[Verse 2]
    E                       G#m      F#
And time will take you far away, my love
    E                    G#m   F#         E
And feel the everlasting now, eternity is real
                       G#m     F#              E
The sun will leave the sky and all the stars reveal
                      G#m    F#            E
So close your eyes forever, again, again, again

[Chorus]
  G#m          F#                 E
I drove such a long, long way here
       G#m              F#               E
Your indifference won't make me disappear
    G#m            F#                 E
And surely, you'll wake up in yourself
              G#m       F#               E
You know that you can't blame nobody else

[Bridge]
E
I'm submitting to the final frame
G#m                        F#
Long, long waiting for the long, lost game (Blame nobody else)
E
Tired of living in a photograph (Blame nobody else)
G#m                    F#
Same old rattle in the same old laugh
E
I'm submitting to the final frame
G#m                        F#
Long, long waiting for the long, lost game
E
Tired of living in a photograph
G#m                    F#
Same old rattle in the same old laugh

[Outro]
E
Da-da-da-da, da-da 
(I'm submitting to the final frame)
G#m                        F#
Da-da-da, da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da 
(Long, long waiting for the long, lost game)
E
Da-da-da-da, da-da 
(Tired of living in a photograph)
G#m                      F#
Da-da-da, da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da 
(Same old rattle in the same old laugh)
E           G#m
If you're a star 
(I'm submitting to the final frame)
F#         E
Shine on me 
(Long, long waiting for the long, lost game)
          G#m
If you're not 
(Tired of living in a photograph)
F#       E
Let me be 
(Same old rattle in the same old laugh)
E           G#m   F#         E
If you're a star, shine on me
          G#m  F#       E
If you're not, let me be

How to play Mimesis: key, chords and progression

To play Mimesis by Fontaines D.C., think in G♯ minor (five sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯, A♯). It takes 3 chords: E, G#m and F#.

The backbone of the song is E – G#m – F# – E (VI – i – VII – VI in G♯ minor). Practise these 4 changes until they feel natural and you can play most of it.

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