This is my first tab ever! Decided to do it since no one else has.
If you notice any mistakes, fix 'em yourself! ;P
Chords (low to high strings):
D#m: X68876
G#m: 466444
C#m: X46654
[C#m]: 977999
F#: 244322
E: 022100
[E]: X79997
B: 799877
When I Die
The Thermals
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D#mG#mC#mF#
The Earth was too hot, The air was too thin
D#mG#mC#mF#
I took off my clothes, I took off my skin
D#mG#mC#mF#E
I crawled to the sea that was calling for me so I could swim...
F#
Yeah, so I could swim!
BF#EF# x2
B [C#m] BF#BF#EF#
I was sick of the land, I was sick from the heat,
BF#EF#
I was sick of the sun and the sky and the trees,
B [C#m]
Over the air that I needed to breathe
F#
When I held with my hands, when I walked on my feet
BF#EF#
I took off my clothes, I took off my skin
BF#EF#
Started shedding my arms to start getting my fins
B [C#m] B
Crawled to the sea that was calling for me so I could swim,
F#
Swim the ocean wide
G#mC#mF#
I was only just past the low tide
B [E]
When I died
B [E]
When I died
B
Yeah, when I died
[C#]
My head did swell
B
I said to myself
F#
Nature sure took her sweet time
G#mC#mF#
I was already losing my spine
BF#EF#
I was sick with horror when my curtain fell
BF#EF#
It's the end of the story I was certain to tell
B [C#m]
Watching their faces as they pulled me from the sea
F#
Feeling for the place I thought my gills would be
BF#EF#
Busted and wrecked, justly infected
BF#EF#
My body beyond repair
B [C#m]
Had no objection, sir, my only questions were
F#
Where do I go and will I know when I'm there?
G#mC#mF#
But I really couldn't say that I cared
B [E]
When I died
B [E]
When I died
B
Yeah, when I died
[C#]
My head did swell
B
I said to myself
F#
Nature sure took her sweet time
E
I was already losing
D#mG#mC#mF#D#mG#m
Yeah, my spine!
C#mF#D#mG#mC#mF#
(I was already losing my spine
D#mG#mC#mF#
If life was short, at least it was short)
D#mG#mC#mF#
The Earth was too hot, The air was too thin
D#mG#mC#mF#
I took off my clothes, I took off my skin
D#mG#mC#mF#E
I crawled to the sea that was calling for me so I could swim...
F#
Yeah, so I could swim!
BF#EF# x2
B [C#m] BF#B [E]
When I died
B [E]
When I died
B
Yeah, when I died
[C#]
My head did swell
B
I said to myself
F#
Nature sure took her sweet time
E
I was already losing
F#B
Yeah, my spine!
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