When you sit at a piano and play an unresolved Am–G–F–E7 loop, you’re not performing a hit. You’re accompanying a generation that has learned to find comfort in the vague.
The Noten became a community project. Not official sheet music, but a living, crowdsourced score for a feeling. After scanning guitar forums, MuseScore files, and a mysterious Google Doc shared by a music teacher from Freiburg, here is the consensus “irgendwie und sowieso” progression — the closest thing to a standard: irgendwie und sowieso noten
F – G – Em – Am “Sowieso war nichts für immer” (Anyway, nothing was forever) When you sit at a piano and play
No one ever found the full song, because it doesn’t exist. But the myth grew. People transcribed it by ear. A Reddit user named u/vergissmeinnicht posted a handwritten chord chart in r/GermanMusic. A TikToker played it on a melodrone. A jazz pianist in Leipzig claimed to have found the “lost bridge” — a Bb diminished that “feels like missing the last train.” Not official sheet music, but a living, crowdsourced
The problem? There is no song called that. Not officially.
Dm – G – C – E7 “Und trotzdem…” (And still…)
Am – Em – F – C “Irgendwie bin ich hier gelandet” (Somehow I ended up here)