It's Only Us by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 12 · Sections: 8

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Part 1 (0:00)

• E
  I

Part 2 (0:05)

• G♯m – F♯m – A – E – B – F♯m – B – A
  iii – ii – IV – I – V – ii – V – IV

Part 3 (0:27)

• C – D – E – E7 – A – C – E
  bVI – bVII – I – I7 – IV – bVI – I

Part 4 (0:50)

• G♯m – F♯m – A – E – B – F♯m – B – A – C – D
  iii – ii – IV – I – V – ii – V – IV – bVI – bVII

Part 5 (1:12)

• E – E7 – A – C – E – Emaj7 – Asus4 – A
  I – I7 – IV – bVI – I – Imaj7 – IVsus4 – IV

Part 6 (1:35)

• E – G♯m – F♯m – A – D – E – B – F♯m – B – A
  I – iii – ii – IV – bVII – I – V – ii – V – IV

Part 7 (1:57)

• C – D – E – E7 – A – C – E – Emaj7 – Asus4
  bVI – bVII – I – I7 – IV – bVI – I – Imaj7 – IVsus4

Part 8 (2:19)

• A – E – B – Asus4 – Am – D – E – B – Asus4 – Am – E – B♭
  IV – I – V – IVsus4 – iv – bVII – I – V – IVsus4 – iv – I – bV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• D (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• Asus4 (IVsus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• Am (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• E7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.