The Only Thing I Know Chords
by Gotye
The Only Thing I Know by Gotye is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, Am and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G Am Em Em
G Am Em
I'm living with your memory
G Am Em
In the attic in my mind
G Am Em
And you've been getting by without me
G Am Em
But I've been spending all my time
G Am Em
With a girl that I remember
G Am Em
Who'll never leave or need to grow
G Am Em
'Cos when you left, you left your memory
G Am Em
Now it's the only thing I know
G Am Em
When the past gives me discomfort
G Am Em
And the future is a cost
G Am Em
The way I'm choosing to remember
G Am Em
I'll forever be the man I never was
G Am Em G Am Em
And y----o----u, you f---a---d---e
G Am Em G Am Em
But the memory remains, the same
G Am Em G Am Em
And I---------I, I can't ch---a---nge
G Am Em
And I think that living with your memory
G Am Em
Is slowly driving me insane
G Am Em
You were perfect but you're empty
G Am Em
And it gets so lonely in my mind
G Am Em
'Cos your image in my memory's
G Am Em
The only shred of you that's left behind
G Am Em
You were real but then you left me
G Am Em
And that's the part I can't accept
G Am Em
So I'll keep on living with your memory
G Am Em
Because it's all that I've got left
G Am Em
It's all that I've got left