Deathbed chords by Relient K

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".



8va--------------------------------------------



         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
am..   love