Maybe chords by Dan Reeder

Chords with lyrics

Capo 4th fret
(There's another one posted on the site but this one is more complete and with
precise sync of chords and lyrics)

[Verse]
   G+G
The first guy I knew who died I can't remember his name
   C majorC
the tenth grade started he just never came again
G+G
 all his friends sat around and cried
   D MajorD
for a day or two

G+G
You can say what you want about immortal soul
   C majorC
when that guy died it left a hole
    G+G
it was my first clue
   D MajorD             G+G
that when they're gone they're gone

[Chorus]
    C majorC
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G+G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
     D MajorD                  G+G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C majorC                G+G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
  D MajorD                             G+G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
G+G
Me and Stevie Gibson used to walk home from school
C majorC
he used to have this little turn around rule
    G+G
if you turn around the one way gotta turn around the other way or
   D MajorD
it's bad luck

G+G
He went out rafting on the river
         C majorC
the river went around and the raft went around
         G+G           D MajorD
and his luck got all wound up and he drowned
      G+G
and he was gone

[Chorus]
    C majorC
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G+G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
     D MajorD                  G+G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C majorC                 G+G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
  D MajorD                             G+G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]

G+G
Two weeks after Dieter died you could call him on the phone
C majorC
and he would tell you that he's not home
    G+G
and it gave you an eerie feeling even though you knew
        D MajorD
it was just an answering machine

G+G
'Cause somewhere deep inside you know
    C majorC
that they don't come back when they go
   G+G        D MajorD
and he had gone and when they're gone
     G+G
they're gone

[Chorus]
    C majorC
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G+G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
      D MajorD                 G+G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C majorC                G+G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
  D MajorD                             G+G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
G+G
My mother died in intensive care
     C majorC
we were sitting around singing on folding chairs
   G+G
when I got the feeling
           D MajorD
somebody wasn't there

G+G
Well I counted noses but it came out right
   C majorC
the doctors said she died that night
    G+G          D MajorD
but I felt that hole and I knew that
     G+G
she was gone

[Chorus]
    C majorC
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G+G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
      D MajorD                 G+G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C majorC                 G+G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
   D MajorD                            G+G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
  G+G
I looked up death in the dictionary one day
     C majorC
just to see what the dictionary had to say
       G+G
it's the complete and irreversible cessation of
   D MajorD
life functions

G+G
Which is not very poetic but it's precise and clean
  C majorC
and if you analyze it what that means is
G+G         D MajorD
when they're gone
     G+G
they're gone

[Chorus]
    C majorC
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G+G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
      D MajorD                 G+G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C majorC                G+G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
  D MajorD                             G+G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone