Chords with lyrics
Tab By Jordan S.
FF FF
I can smell the death on the sheet, covering
FF
me, I can't
FF C majorC G+G
believe this is the end.
C majorC FF G+G A minorAm
But this is my death bed, I lie here alone, If
C majorC
I close my
FF G+G C majorC
eyes tonight, I know I'll be home.
(upbeat)
C majorC G minorGm Bb majorBb FF The year was 1941, I was eight years old and far far too
C majorC G minorGm
young, to know that the stories of battles and glory was a
Bb majorBb FF
Tale a kind mother made up for a son.
C majorC G minorGm Bb majorBb
You see dad was a traveling preacher, teaching the words of
FF
a teacher.
C majorC G minorGm
Mother had sworn he went off to the war, and
Bb majorBb FF
died there with honor, somewhere on a beach there.
A minorAm C#m/G# C/GC/G But he left once to never return, which taught me that I
D9/F# FF C majorC
should unlearn, whatever I thought a father should be, I
C minorCm D MajorD
abandoned that thought like he abandoned me.
D MajorD Dm(maj7)/C# D7/C
By forty-seven I was fourteen, I acquired a taste for liquor and
G+G G minorGm D MajorD
nicotine, I smoked until I threw up yet I still lit-
A augmentedA C#m/G# C#m-b5/G D MajorD
‘em up for 30 more years, like a machine.
FF C majorC
So right there you have it... that
FF
one filthy
C majorC DmDm C majorC G+G
habit... is what got me where I am today.
FF FF
I can smell the death on the sheet, covering
FF
me, I can't
FF C majorC G+G
believe this is the end.
FF FF I can hear those sad memories, still haunting
FF
me, all of
FF C majorC G+G
the things I'd do again.
C majorC FF G+G A minorAm
But this is my death bed, I lie here alone, If
C majorC
I close my
FF G+G C majorC
eyes tonight, I know I'll be home.
C majorC G minorGm Bb majorBb
Got married on my twenty first, eight months
FF
before my wife
would give birth.
C majorC G minorGm
It's easier to be sure you love someone, when
Bb majorBb
her father
FF
inquires with the barrel on a gun.
A minorAm C#m/G# The union was far from harmonious; no two
C/GC/G
people could be
D9/F# FF
more alone than us, the years would go by and
C majorC C minorCm
she’d love some one else and id realized I
D MajorD
hadn’t been loved yet myself
FF C majorC FF
I bowled about six times a week, the bottle of beam kept
C majorC
the memories from me.
FF C majorC
Our marriage had taken a seven ten split and
DmDm
along with my
C majorC G+G
all fall apart.
A augmentedA C#m/G# C#m-b5/G
Yeah, I swear I was destined to fail, and fail from the
D MajorD
start.
C majorC FF G+G A minorAm
But this is my death bed, I lie here alone, If
C majorC
I close my
FF G+G C majorC
pride the ex-wife took the kids.
FF FF
I can smell the death on the sheet, covering
FF
me, I can't
FF C majorC G+G
believe this is the end.
FF FF I can hear those sad memories, still haunting
FF
me, all of
FF C majorC G+G
the things I'd do again.
FF C majorC the years would go by and she'd love someone else, and I'd
C majorC D MajorD
realized I hadn't been loved yet myself.
D MajorD Dmaj¬¬7 From there It's your typical spiel, yeah If
D7/C
life was a highway I was
G+G G minorGm
drunk at the wheel, I was seeing the loose ends
D MajorD
eyes tonight, I know I'll be home.
(Arpeggiated)
C majorC G minorGm
I was so scared of Jesus but he sought me out, like the
Bb majorBb FF
cancer in my lungs that's killing me now.
C majorC G minorGm
And I've given up hope on the days I have left, but I
Bb majorBb FF
cling to the hope of my life in the next.
A minorAm C#m/G#
Then Jesus showed up, said "Before we go, I
C/GC/G
thought that we
D9/F#
might reminisce"
FF C majorC
"See one night in your life when you turned out the
C minorCm D MajorD
lights", you asked for and prayed for my forgiveness"
(Slowed)
D MajorD D/F#D/F# A augmentedA
You Cried wolf, the tears they soaked your fur.
G+G
The blood
G/EG/E
dripped from your fangs.
D MajorD A augmentedA You said, "What have I done ", You loved that
D MajorD
lamb with
D/F#D/F# A augmentedA G+G G/EG/E
every sinful bone, and there you wept alone.
D MajorD A augmentedA
Your heart was so contrite.
G/EG/E D MajorD
You said. " Jesus, please forgive me of my
G+G G/EG/E
crimes, Sanctify
D MajorD G+G
this withered heart of mine.
G/EG/E D MajorD G+G G/EG/E Stay with me until my life is through, and on
that day
D MajorD G+G
please take me home with you".
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G+G G+G
I can smell the death on the sheet, covering
G+G G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
me; I can't believe this is the end.
G+G G+G I can hear you whisper to me, "It's time to
G+G
leave you’ll
G minorGm D MajorD A augmentedA
never be lonely again".
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA B minorBm But this was my death bed, I died there alone, when I
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA G/DG/D D MajorD
closed my eyes tonight you carried me home
12 measures of alternating G+G to D MajorD until the ending when Jon Foreman from Switchfoot sings as the voice of Jesus.
D MajorD F#F# BB A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA I am the way, Follow me and take my hand,
D MajorD F#F# BB A augmentedA
and I am the Truth, embrace me and you'll
G+G
understand,
D MajorD F#F# BB A augmentedA
And I am the Light, and for me you'll live
G+G
again.
G+G A augmentedA BB G+G A augmentedA BB D MajorD G+G D/AD/A for I am Love... I am Love... I... I...
A augmentedA D MajorD
am.. love