The Bed Song chords by Amanda Palmer

*The intro (which is reused between verses) is a piano part, but if you play this
it's an OK substitute - play along with it to get a feel for the rhythm

Intro
Em   D   C Cmaj7 C Cmaj7
|v v  | v v | v v  | v v
Em   D   Cmaj7 C Cadd9
|v v  | v v |   | |

Gadd5  Gadd5/F#
Exhibit A
    Em
We are friends in a sleeping bag splitting the heat
               C       G        C Cadd9 C Cadd9
We have one filthy pillow to share and your lips are in my hair
Gadd5   Gadd5/F#   Em
Someone upstairs has a rat that we laughed at
  Em
And people are drinking
  Em          C     G    C Cadd9 C Cadd9
And singing Van Halen and Slayer on a ukulele tear

*repeat intro

Gadd5  Gadd5/F#
Exhibit B
     Em
Well, we found an apartment

It?s not much to look at
       C
A futon on a floor
     G       C Cadd9 C Cadd9
Torn-off desktop for a door
Gadd5   Gadd5/F#   Em
All the decor's made of milk crates and duct tape
  Em
And if we have sex
               C
They can hear us through the floor
       G     C Cadd9 C Cadd9
But we don?t do that anymore

*Chorus
  Em     D     C
And I lay there wondering, what is the matter?
Em    D     C
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
Em      D      C
You took the blanket, so I took the bedsheet
  Em      D      C
But I would have held you if you'd only

Let me

*repeat intro*

Exhibit C
Look how quaint
And how quiet and private
Our paychecks have bought us a condo in town
It's the nicest flat around
You picked a mattress and had it delivered
And I walked upstairs
And the sight of it made my heart pound
And I wrapped my arms around me

And I stood there wondering, what is the matter?
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
You walked right past me and straightened the covers
But I would still love you if you wanted a lover

C
And you said
    C      Em
All the money in the world
D   G  E Am B     C
Won't buy a bed so big and wide
  C            Em D G  E  Am  B
To guarantee that you won't accidentally touch me
B7   C Cmaj7 C Cadd9  C Cmaj7 C Cadd9  C Cmaj7 C Cadd9  C Cmaj7 C Cadd9
In the night

*short instrumental
Em D G  E  Am Am6 Am6 Am6

Gadd5  Gadd5/F#
Exhibit D
     Em
Now we're both mostly paralyzed
Em                       C
Don't know how long we've been lying here in fear
  G           C
Too afraid to even feel
Gadd5   Gadd5/F#    Em
I find my glasses and you turn the light out
   Em
Roll off on your side
                            C
Like you've rolled away for years
        G                    C
Holding back those king-size tears

Em      D    C
And I still don't ask you, what is the matter?
Em    D     C
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
Em      D
You take the heart failure
C
I'll take the cancer
Em        D     C
I've long stopped wondering why you don't answer

*repeat intro x2

Exhibit E
You can certainly see how fulfilling a life
From the cost and size of stone of our final resting home
We got some nice ones right under a cherry tree
You and me lying the only way we know
Side by side and still and cold

And I finally ask you, what was the matter?
Was it a matter of worse or of better?
You stretch your arms out and finally face me
You say I would have told you

C Cadd9  C   Cadd9
If you'd only asked me
  C Cadd9  C   Cadd9
If you'd only asked me
  C Cadd9  C   Cadd9
If you'd only asked me

*repeat intro x2