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Taylor Swift feat. Phoebe Bridgers – Nothing New Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Updated January 8, 2026

ChordsC Am Em F GC/B

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[Verse]
                       C
They tell you while you're young
                         Am
"Girls, go out and have your fun,"
                            Em
Then they hunt and slay the ones
    F           G
who actually do it
                      C
Criticize the way you fly
                               Am
When you're soarin' through the sky
                               Em
Shoot you down, and then they sigh
and say
      F                      G
"She looks like she's been through
it,"

[Pre-Chorus]
                          F
Lord, what will become of me
                      G
Once I've lost my novelty?

[Chorus]
F        G           C
I've had too much to drink tonight
And I know it's sad,
   C/B             Am
but this is what I think about
 F         G                  C
And I wake up in the middle of
the night
                C/B       Am
It's like I can feel time moving
F                      G
How can a person know everything at
         C        C/B           Am
eighteen but nothin' at twenty-two?
             F            G
And will you still want me when
I'm nothin' new?

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[Verse]
                    C
How long will it be cute
                      Am
All this cryin' in my room
                              Em
Whеn you can't blame it on my youth
              F           G
and roll your eyes with affеction?
                          C
And my cheeks are growin' tired
                            Am
From turnin' red and fakin' smiles
                   Em
Are we only bidin' time
       F           G
'til I lose your attention?

[Pre-Chorus]
                               F
And someone else lights up the room
            G
People love an ingénue

[Chorus]
F        G           C
I've had too much to drink tonight
                 C/B
How did I go from growin'
     Am
up to breakin' down
F            G
And I wake up in the middle
      C
of the night
                C/B       Am
It's like I can feel time moving
F                      G
How can a person know everything
at eighteen
C        C/B           Am
but nothin' at twenty-two?
             F            G
And will you still want me when
I'm nothin' new?

[Bridge]
F
I know someday I'm gonna meet her
         G    F
It's a fever dream
 F
The kind of radiance you
              G   F
only have at seventeen
 F
She'll know the way
and then she'll
                G        F
say she got the map from me
I'll say I'm happy for her,
             G          C
then I'll cry myself to sleep

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[Chorus]
F        G           C
I've had too much to drink tonight
                        C/B
But I wonder if they'll miss
             Am
me once they drive me out
F         G
I wake up in the middle
       C
of the night
         C/B       Am
And I can feel time moving
F                      G
How can a person know everything
            C        C/B
at eighteen but nothin'
           Am
at twenty-two?

[Outro]
             F           G
And will you still want me
         F            G
Will you still want me
         F            G
Will you still want me
When I'm nothin' new?

How to play Nothing New: key, chords and progression

These are the chords for Nothing New by Taylor Swift feat. Phoebe Bridgers on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard

Nothing New by Taylor Swift feat. Phoebe Bridgers sits in C major (no sharps or flats), and you need 6 chords to play it: C, Am, Em, F, G and C/B.

Most of the song cycles through F – G – C – C/B (IV – V – I – I in C major). In solfa, that is fah – soh – doh – doh. Get these 4 changes smooth and the rest comes quickly.

Beginner-friendly: almost every chord is an open chord on guitar, so you can play it without a capo or barre chords.