Deathbed chords by Relient K

Tab By Jordan S.

                 F                    F
I can smell the death on the sheet, covering
    F
me, I can't
         F           C             G
believe this is the end.

      C          F           G         Am
But this is my death bed, I lie here alone, If
    C
I close my
         F       G            C
eyes tonight, I know I'll be home.

        (upbeat)

 C            Gm           Bb                 F The year was 1941, I was eight years old and far far too
            C                        Gm
young, to know that the stories of battles and glory was a
 Bb                               F
Tale a kind mother made up for a son.



C                              Gm        Bb
You see dad was a traveling preacher, teaching the words of
    F
a teacher.
 C                       Gm
Mother had sworn he went off to the war, and
 Bb                          F
died there with honor, somewhere on a beach there.






        Am                C#m/G#         C/G    But he left once to never return, which taught me that I
        D9/F#        F                  C
should unlearn,  whatever I thought a father should be, I
 Cm                               D
abandoned that thought like he abandoned me.




       D            Dm(maj7)/C#      D7/C
By forty-seven I was fourteen, I acquired a taste for liquor and
   G      Gm                     D
nicotine, I smoked until I threw up yet I still lit-

     A   C#m/G#   C#m-b5/G          D
‘em up for 30 more years, like a machine.


 F                           C
So right there you have it...           that
 F
one filthy
        C           Dm          C      G
habit...   is what got me where I am today.



                  F                    F
I can smell the death on the sheet, covering
    F
me, I can't
         F           C             G
believe this is the end.

                  F              F             I can hear those sad memories, still haunting
      F
me,  all of
            F        C                G
the things I'd do again.

      C          F           G         Am
But this is my death bed, I lie here alone, If
    C
I close my
 F                G            C
eyes tonight, I know I'll be home.




        C                 Gm     Bb
Got married on my twenty first, eight months
           F
before my wife
would give birth.
        C                   Gm
It's easier to be sure you love someone, when
      Bb
her father
                    F
inquires with the barrel on a gun.

      Am                C#m/G#               The union was far from harmonious; no two
 C/G
people could be
     D9/F#                F
more alone than us, the years would go by and
        C                         Cm
she’d love some one else and id realized I
              D
hadn’t been loved yet myself

    F                       C          F
I bowled about six times a week, the bottle of beam kept
       C
the memories from me.

      F                   C
Our marriage had taken a seven ten split and
  Dm
along with my
  C           G
all fall apart.

          A         C#m/G#     C#m-b5/G
Yeah, I swear I was destined to fail, and fail from the
  D
start.

      C          F           G         Am
But this is my death bed, I lie here alone, If
    C
I close my
 F                G            C
pride the ex-wife took the kids.


                  F                    F
I can smell the death on the sheet, covering
    F
me, I can't
         F           C             G
believe this is the end.

                  F              F             I can hear those sad memories, still haunting
      F
me,  all of
            F        C                G
the things I'd do again.

      F                           C            the years would go by and she'd love someone else, and I'd
  C                      D
realized I hadn't been loved yet myself.




       D                     Dmaj¬¬7          From there It's your typical spiel, yeah If
D7/C
life was a highway I was
  G                         Gm
drunk at the wheel, I was seeing the loose ends
 D
eyes tonight, I know I'll be home.


(Arpeggiated)

      C                      Gm
I was so scared of Jesus but he sought me out,  like the
  Bb                        F
cancer in my lungs that's killing me now.

           C                   Gm
And I've given up hope on the days I have left, but I
 Bb                       F
cling to the hope of my life in the next.

       Am                   C#m/G#
Then Jesus showed up, said "Before we go, I
  C/G
thought that we
        D9/F#
might reminisce"

           F                           C
"See one night in your life when you turned out the
               Cm                     D
lights", you asked for and prayed for my forgiveness"




(Slowed)

           D        D/F#                  A
You Cried wolf, the tears they soaked your fur.
      G
The blood
                   G/E
dripped from your fangs.

      D                 A                    You said, "What have I done?", You loved that
  D
lamb with
 D/F#          A         G             G/E
every sinful bone, and there you wept alone.
      D               A
Your heart was so contrite.

             G/E             D
You said. " Jesus, please forgive me of my
   G       G/E
crimes, Sanctify
        D               G
this withered heart of mine.

 G/E            D               G          G/E Stay with me until my life is through, and on
that day
        D                 G
please take me home with you".



8va--------------------------------------------



                  G                   G
I can smell the death on the sheet, covering
    G                 G          D        A
me; I can't believe this is the end.
                  G             G             I can hear you whisper to me, "It's time to
        G
leave you’ll
          Gm      D               A
never be lonely again".


     D            G             A         Bm    But this was my death bed,  I died there alone, when I
   D              G          A         G/D    D
closed my eyes tonight you carried me home



12 measures of alternating G to D until the ending when Jon Foreman from Switchfoot sings as the voice of Jesus.








D         F#         B       A       G     A                   I am the way, Follow me and take my hand,
    D          F#       B            A
and I am the Truth, embrace me and you'll
     G
understand,


    D         F#            B          A
And I am the Light, and for me you'll live
  G
again.




    G  A  B      G A   B      D       G   D/A  for I am Love... I am Love... I...         I...
 A         D
am..     love