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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