Day Of The Dead chords by Hana Zara

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
Am                                C
The end already came here and we tunneled through the earth,
       Am                                   C
In the basement with the lights out to The Good Life and The Cure
         D                               F
With the Geiger counter crying and your breathing keeping time
            D                              F
Learned to think with just my body and to move with just my mind


     Am                          C
This used to be a commune, this used to be a farm
           Am                                    C
A winding way north of the train tracks and south of the liquor store
         D                              F
Where I caught you with a bottle and a ship carved in your arm
          D                                 F
With your banjo and your bare feet and your sadness like a stone

Chorus:
           G       C
And always so alone
                            Am
Nobody loved you like they should
         F                D
Son of a gun, day of the dead
            G                       C
Hand on my heart and your name in my head
            G                       C
Hand on my heart and your name in my head

Verse 2:
        Am                                C
So your sister called me crying from halfway across the states
              Am                            C
She chose the dying of the desert over the dying of the plains
         D                            F
Said New Mexico was different but the sunlight was the same
         D                              F
And the phone was near on fire and she couldn’t say your name

           Am                              C
And so we lay you in the garden and you sprung up like a weed
             Am                                C
Where we’d scattered red tomatoes and spilled morning glory seeds
           D                              F
All of us tripping in the overgrowth and dying in the brush
     D                                  F
All agreed we would have laid ourselves beside you if we could

Chorus:
          G             C
And if I could, I would
                                Am
I would have loved you like I should
         F               D
Son of a gun, day of the dead,
            G                        Am
Hand on my heart and your name in my head
            C
Hand on my heart,

                                G      C                                     Am
And sometimes I still hear you calling me
                                 Am
With some bad dream you can’t forget
          F               D
Son of a gun, go back to sleep
            G                           Am
Kind of the world when you’re crying to me

C               G         Am
That you were never any good
              F                  D
Fighting your mind, king of the world
          G                        Am
I’m on my way so just stay on the line

Verse 3:
Am                                            C
Did we come back here for each other, did we come back here for us
            Am                          C
Or did the magnets in the city pull the iron in our blood?

Bridge:
             D                                F
Well I came back here for the living, I came back here for the love
         D                            F
For the idea of an ending, for the friendship and the drugs

        D                               F
I came back here for the fires that we lit to light us up
        D                                F
I came back here for the living, I came back here for the love

Chorus:
            G          C                                 Am
And just to say it straight, that we all did the best we could
          F              D
Carrying on, under the sun
              G                         Am
Hands in the soil and a prayer for the waking ones

C          G            Am              F                  D             G
Somebody’s gotta stay behind, carry it on, rise with the sun, ready or not
                    Am                               C
In the name of the ones we love, In the name of the ones we love

Coda:
                 Am                                                 C
We stay for the ones we love, if not yourself then you stay for the ones you love
                      G               Am
And I hope you’re dreaming somewhere good

          F              D                  G                        Am
Son of a gun, day of the dead, hand on my heart and your name in my head
           G                          Am
Hand on my heart and your name in my head