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Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

Arctic Monkeys

RockMedium for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

G
D××
C×
Em
A×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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                G       D          C 
It feels like I only go backwards, baby 
              G       D   C   
Every part of me says go ahead  
                   G        D   C 
I got my hopes up again, oh no not again  
              G       D        C    
Feels like we only go backwards darlin'  
 
 
 
Em                                                      D 
I know that you think you sound silly when you call my name 
                                   Em  
But I hear it inside my head all day 
                                                      A  
when I realize I'm just holding on to the hope that maybe 
                    C 
Your feelings don't show 
 
 
                G       D          C 
It feels like I only go backwards, baby 
              G       D   C   
Every part of me says go ahead  
                   G        D   C 
I got my hopes up again, oh no not again  
              G       D        C    
Feels like we only go backwards darlin'  
 
 
 
Em                                     D  
The seed of all this indecision isn't me, oh no 
                     Em       
Cause I decided long ago 
                                                   
but that's the way it seems to go when trying so hard to  
                  A 
get to something real 
 
   C 
It feels  
 
 
 
2x  
 
                G       D          C 
It feels like I only go backwards, baby 
              G       D   C   
Every part of me says go ahead  
                   G        D   C 
I got my hopes up again, oh no not again  
              G       D        C           C         G 
Feels like we only go backwards baby 
          
 

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Chord set

G · D · C · Em · A

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.