Erase chords by They Might Be Giants

Tuning: EADGBE

Intro:
Main Riff: x4
e|------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------|
D|------------------2-0---------------------|
A|------3-2---------------------------------|
E|2-3---------2-3---------2-3---3-2---0-2-3-|

Verse 1:
       G      G     G     G       G        G   D6  G
You and I will be together when we shed our memory
       G       G      G       G      G      G    D6   G
I won't wear an orange sweater when I get it off of me
         G     G       G     G      G         G     D6      G
When it's as it someday is it always will have been the case
         G    G         G      G         G      G       D6   G
When your ever-searching finger finds the button marked erase

Chorus:
C                              G  * x5
Finger find the button marked erase
C                             Am         D
Like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid's embrace

Verse 2:
 * x2
    G       G          G         G          G             G             D6        G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
     G        G          G           G              G           G       D6    G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one

Bridge:
   Em  Em     Em Em C
Button marked eraaaaase
     G                Am
When darlings must be murdered
          C              D
When your heartbreak overwhelms your heart

Verse 3:
 * x2
        G       G       G        G           G     G     D6      G
Think of this as solving problems that should never have occurred
            G       G       G      G        G       G  D6     G
Please don't call it strangu-lation, that is such an ugly word

Chorus:
C                               G  * x5
Press erase, ignore the shrill alarms
C                              Am             D
See the way the deep sea diver falls into the mermaid's arms

Verse 4:
 * x2
    G       G          G         G          G             G             D6        G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
     G        G          G           G              G           G       D6    G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one

Bridge:

   Em  Em     Em Em C
Button marked eraaaaase
     G                Am
When darlings must be murdered
          C              D
When your heartbreak overrides the very

N.C.  Em  Em Em  Em  C
Thing you cannot faaaace
    G              Am
The skeletons that won't stay down
    C               D
The mercy kill that can't be drowned

Verse 5:
   G     G          G      G         G      G        D6      G
Put   box   sidewalk   then    return   next   first one gone
        G    G     G     G        G     G      D6    G
Everyone   on   bus   out   lights   out   one by one

Chorus:
C                              G  * x5
Finger find the button marked erase
C                             Am        D
Like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid's embrace

Verse 6:
 * x2
    G       G          G         G          G             G             D6        G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
     G        G          G           G              G           G       D6    G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one



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