Deathbed chords by Relient K
Guitar chords with lyrics
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".
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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
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