Singing for the Lonely by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 12

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)

• F – Am – Gm – B♭ – F – C – Gm – Fsus4 – F
  I – iii – ii – IV – I – V – ii – Isus4 – I

Part 2 (0:23)

• Am – Gm – B♭ – F – C – Gm – Fsus4 – F
  iii – ii – IV – I – V – ii – Isus4 – I

Part 3 (0:46)

• Gm7/F – F – C7 – F – Gm7/F – Am – Gm – C
  ii⁴₂ – I – V7 – I – ii⁴₂ – iii – ii – V

Part 4 (1:09)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 5 (1:31)

• B♭/D – F/C – B♭/D – F – B♭/D – Dm – Gm – C
  IV⁶ – I⁶₄ – IV⁶ – I – IV⁶ – vi – ii – V

Part 6 (1:54)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 7 (2:16)

• Gm/F – F – C – F – Gm/F – Am – Gm – C
  ii (bass F) – I – V – I – ii (bass F) – iii – ii – V

Part 8 (2:39)

Same chords as Part 5 (1:31).

Part 9 (3:02)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 10 (3:24)

• Am – Gm – B♭ – F – C – Gm – F
  iii – ii – IV – I – V – ii – I

Part 11 (3:47)

• C – F (×3)
  V – I
• C
  V
• A♭ – E♭ (×4)
  bIII – bVII

Part 12 (4:10)

• F – C (×6)
  I – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• E♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Sing When You're Winning, 2000), 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 (Sing When You're Winning, 2000), 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.