Erase chords by They Might Be Giants

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

Intro:
Main Riff: x4
e|------------------------------------------|
BB|------------------------------------------|
G+G|------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|------------------2-0---------------------|
A augmentedA|------3-2---------------------------------|
E MajorE|2-3---------2-3---------2-3---3-2---0-2-3-|

Verse 1:
    G+G   G+G   G+G   G+G    G+G    G+G  D6D6 G+G
You and I will be together when we shed our memory
    G+G    G+G   G+G    G+G   G+G   G+G  D6D6  G+G
I won't wear an orange sweater when I get it off of me
     G+G   G+G    G+G   G+G   G+G     G+G   D6D6   G+G
When it's as it someday is it always will have been the case
     G+G  G+G     G+G   G+G     G+G   G+G    D6D6  G+G
When your ever-searching finger finds the button marked erase

Chorus:
C majorC               G+G * x5
Finger find the button marked erase
C majorC               A minorAm     D MajorD
Like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid's embrace

Verse 2:
 * x2
  G+G    G+G     G+G     G+G     G+G       G+G       D6D6    G+G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
   G+G    G+G     G+G      G+G       G+G      G+G    D6D6  G+G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one

Bridge:
  E minorEm E minorEm   E minorEm Em C majorC
Button marked eraaaaase
   G+G        A minorAm
When darlings must be murdered
     C majorC       D MajorD
When your heartbreak overwhelms your heart

Verse 3:
 * x2
    G+G    G+G    G+G    G+G      G+G   G+G   D6D6   G+G
Think of this as solving problems that should never have occurred
      G+G    G+G    G+G   G+G    G+G    G+G D6D6   G+G
Please don't call it strangu-lation, that is such an ugly word

Chorus:
C majorC                G+G * x5
Press erase, ignore the shrill alarms
C majorC               A minorAm       D MajorD
See the way the deep sea diver falls into the mermaid's arms

Verse 4:
 * x2
  G+G    G+G     G+G     G+G     G+G       G+G       D6D6    G+G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
   G+G    G+G     G+G      G+G       G+G      G+G    D6D6  G+G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one

Bridge:

  E minorEm E minorEm   E minorEm Em C majorC
Button marked eraaaaase
   G+G        A minorAm
When darlings must be murdered
     C majorC       D MajorD
When your heartbreak overrides the very

N.C. E minorEm E minorEm Em E minorEm C majorC
Thing you cannot faaaace
  G+G       A minorAm
The skeletons that won't stay down
  C majorC        D MajorD
The mercy kill that can't be drowned

Verse 5:
  G+G   G+G     G+G   G+G     G+G   G+G    D6D6   G+G
Put  box  sidewalk  then  return  next  first one gone
    G+G  G+G   G+G   G+G    G+G   G+G   D6D6  G+G
Everyone  on  bus  out  lights  out  one by one

Chorus:
C majorC               G+G * x5
Finger find the button marked erase
C majorC               A minorAm    D MajorD
Like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid's embrace

Verse 6:
 * x2
  G+G    G+G     G+G     G+G     G+G       G+G       D6D6    G+G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
   G+G    G+G     G+G      G+G       G+G      G+G    D6D6  G+G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one


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