What Have I Done to Deserve This? by Pet Shop Boys

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 15

Form: Intro → Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). 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

Intro 1

• F – Em – Am (×6)
  IV – iii – vi

Intro 2

• Dsus4(no5) – Csus4(no5) (×2)
  IIsus4(no5) – Isus4(no5)

Verse 1

• Dsus4(no5) – Csus4(no5) (×3)
  IIsus4(no5) – Isus4(no5)

Chorus 1

• B♭5 – C5 – B♭ – C
  bVII5 – I5 – bVII – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• B♭ – C (×2)
  bVII – I

Chorus 3

• F – Em – Am (×4)
  IV – iii – vi

Bridge 1

• C – Dm – G – C – Dm
  I – ii – V – I – ii

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Verse 3

• Csus2 – Csus4(no5) (×3)
  Isus2 – Isus4(no5)

Chorus 5

• B♭5/C – C5 – B♭/C – C
  bVII5 (bass C) – I5 – bVII (bass C) – I

Chorus 6

Same chords as Chorus 3.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Chorus 7

• B♭ – C (×2)
  bVII – I
• B♭/C – C (×4)
  bVII (bass C) – I

Outro

• F – Em – Am (×12)
  IV – iii – vi

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭5 (bVII5) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭5/C (bVII5 (bass C)) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭/C (bVII (bass C)) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0648, CC0), via ChoCo.
• 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.