Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 11

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7 – E♭maj7 (×2)
  I – Imaj7 – I7 – Imaj7

Part 2 (0:19)

• E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7 – E♭maj7 – E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7 – A♭
  I – Imaj7 – I7 – Imaj7 – I – Imaj7 – I7 – IV

Part 3 (0:38)

• Fm – B♭ – E♭ – Cm – Fm – B♭ – E♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – Gm/D – Cm – B♭ – A♭
  ii – V – I – vi – ii – V – I – I7 – IV – V – I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV

Part 4 (0:57)

• B♭ – B♭sus4 – B♭ – E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7 – E♭maj7 – E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7
  V – Vsus4 – V – I – Imaj7 – I7 – Imaj7 – I – Imaj7 – I7

Part 5 (1:15)

• E♭maj7 – E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7 – A♭ – Fm – B♭ – E♭ – Cm – Fm
  Imaj7 – I – Imaj7 – I7 – IV – ii – V – I – vi – ii

Part 6 (1:34)

• B♭ – E♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – Gm/D – Cm – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – B♭sus4 – B♭ – E♭
  V – I – I7 – IV – V – I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV – V – Vsus4 – V – I

Part 7 (1:53)

• E♭maj7 – E♭7 – E♭maj7 – E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7 – E♭maj7 – Fm – B♭
  Imaj7 – I7 – Imaj7 – I – Imaj7 – I7 – Imaj7 – ii – V

Part 8 (2:12)

• E♭ – Cm – Fm – B♭ – E♭ – E♭7 – Fm – B♭ – E♭ – Cm – Fm – B♭ – E♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – B♭
  I – vi – ii – V – I – I7 – ii – V – I – vi – ii – V – I – I7 – IV – V

Part 9 (2:31)

• E♭ – Gm/D – Cm – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – B♭sus4 – B♭ – E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7 – E♭maj7
  I – iii⁶₄ – vi – V – IV – V – Vsus4 – V – I – Imaj7 – I7 – Imaj7

Part 10 (2:49)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 11 (3:08)

• E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭7 – E♭maj7 – E♭
  I – Imaj7 – I7 – Imaj7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Sixpence None The Richer), 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 (Sixpence None The Richer), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.