When Will You Die chords by They Might Be Giants

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: A

Intro:

A G B E

Verse:
             A E
I'm so tired
             D A
Of your lies
             E
And the evil things
       D     Bm        E
You're doing behind my back

Chorus:
          D
Are there crimes
                    Bm
That you have never committed?
                  G
I doubt it, sometimes I wonder
              Esus4 E
When will you die?

Verse:
             A E
You're insane
           D A
You are bad
             E           D
You wreck everything you touch
            Bm      E
And you're a sociopath

Chorus:
            D
But there's one thing
                Bm
That everyone's wondering
     E         A
When will you die?

Bridge:
F#m
Schoolchildren stay at home (yeah)
C#m
And all the banks will close (yeah)
D
Each year we'll mark the date (yeah)
Bm          Esus4  E
On which we celebrate (yeaah)

Verse:
           A E
I know how
          D A
I know why
      E            D
I can picture ever part
           Bm          E
Of your comeuppance, except

Chorus:
        D
For the one remaining
               Bm
Piece of the puzzle
         E          A
Which is when you'll die


--GUITAR SOLO--
                       F#m                                       C#m
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G--|------------------|-----------------------|11---------------|---------9----------|----------------|
D--|------------------|-----------------------|-----------------|-----------11b12r11-|11b12-----------|
A--|------------------|-----------------------|-----------------|--------------------|----------------|
E--|------------------|-----------------------|-----------------|--------------------|----------------|

    D                                                          Bm            E
e--|-----------14-17b19-|r17-16h17p16-14-14h16h14-12-12h14p12-|----14---17--|--------17-19-21-22-23-24-|
B--|------14-15---------|-------------------------------------|15----15-----|17-19-21------------------|
G--|-11-14--------------|-------------------------------------|-16----------|--------------------------|
D--|12------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------|--------------------------|
A--|--------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------|--------------------------|
E--|--------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------|--------------------------|

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Verse:
           A E
This is Dan
             D A
And that's Dan
            E            D
And there's Marty on the drums
       Bm       E
To complete the band

Chorus:
        D
And I'm John
               Bm
And he is also John
                   D
And all of us are wondering
                    E
When you're gonna die

Verse:
              A E
Still you live
         D A
You go on
           E              D
But you're running up the clock
          Bm        E
And if we knew how long

Chorus:
         D
I'd be counting down the days
          Bm
Until the lovely one
   E            A
On which you're gone

Interlude:
D         E      A/C#
On that promised morning
Bm      D        E         A/C#    Bm
We will wake and greet the dawn
D       E         A      Bm      G
Knowing that your wicked life is over
         B             E
And that we will carry on

Verse:
             A E
We'll exhale
               D A
We'll high five
         E
We will know at last
   D             Bm     E
How great it is to be alive

Chorus:
          D
We'll be lining up
            Bm
And buying tickets
                   G
And then we'll be jumping
                     E
Up and down on your grave

Verse:
             A E
You're insane
           D A
You are bad
             E           D
You wreck everything you touch
            Bm      E
And you're a sociopath

Outro:
           D               Bm
And the only way to mitigate
            E             D
Would be to know the date
                      Bm
You scheduled to vacate
             E        D
When are you going to die?
               Bm
Look me in the eye
        E           A
Tell me when you'll die