Song: Deathbed
Artist: Relient k
Album: Five Score And Seven Years Ago
F
I can smell the death on the sheets
F
Covering me
F F/G C
I can't believe this is the end
C F
But this is my deathbed
G Am
I lie here alone
C F
If I close my eyes tonight
G C
I know I'll be home
C G
The year was nineteen forty one
Bb
I was eight years old and
F
Far, far too young
C
To know that the stories
G
Of battles and glory
Bb
Was a tale a kind mother
F
Made up for her son
You see
C G
Dad was a traveling preacher
Bb F
Teaching the words of the Teacher
C
My mother had sworn he
G
Went off to the war
Bb
And died there with honor
F
Somewhere on a beach there
Am Ab
But he left once to never return
C/G D/F#
Which taught me that I should unlearn
F C
Whatever I thought a father should be
Eb
I abandoned that thought
D/F#
Like he abandoned me
D A/C#
By forty seven I was fourteen
C G
I'd acquired a taste for liquor and nicotine
Bb D/A
I smoked until I threw up
A
Yet I still lit 'em up
Ab G
For thirty more years
D
Like a machine
F C
So right there you have it
F C
That one filthy habit
F/D C G
Is what got me where I am today
F
I can smell the death on the sheets
Covering me
F/G C G
I can't believe this is the end
F
I can hear those sad memories
Still haunting me
So many things
F/G C G
I'd do again
C F
But this is my deathbed
G Am
I lie here alone
C F
If I close my eyes tonight
G C
I know I'll be home
C G
I got married on my twenty first
Bb F
Eight months before my wife would give birth
C G
It's easier to be sure you love someone
Bb F
When her father inquires with the barrel of a gun
Am E/Ab
The union was far from harmonious
C/G D/F#
No two people could have been more alone than us
F C
The years would go by and she'd love someone else
Eb D/F#
And I realized I hadn't been loved yet myself
D A
From there it's your typical spiel
C
Yeah if life was a highway
G
I was drunk at the wheel
Bb
I was seeing the loose ends
D/A
All fall apart
A Ab G
Yeah I swear I was destined to fail
F# D
And fail from the start
F C
I bowled about six times a week
F C
The bottle of Beam kept the memories from me
F C
The marriage had taken a seven-ten split
F/D C G
And along with my pride the ex-wife took the kids
F
I can smell the death on the sheets
Covering me
F/G C G
I can't believe this is the end
F
I can hear those sad memories
Still haunting me
So many things
F/G C G
I'd do again
C F
But this is my deathbed
G Am
I lie here alone
C F
If I close my eyes tonight
G C
I know I'll be home
C
I was so scared of Jesus
G/D
But He sought me out
Bb
Like the cancer in my lungs
F
That's killing me now
C
And I've given up hope
G/D
On the days I have left
Bb
But I cling to the hope
F
Of my life in the next
Am
Then Jesus showed up
E/Ab
Said, "Before we go up
C/G D/F#
I thought that we might reminisce
F
See one night in your life
C
When you turned out the light
Eb D
You asked for and prayed for my forgiveness"
D
You cried wolf
Bm A
The tears they soaked your fur
G Em
The blood dripped from your fangs
D A
You said, "What have I done?"
Em
You loved that Lamb
D Bm
With every sinful bone
A
And there you wept alone
G Em A
Your heart was so contrite
Em D G
You said, "Jesus, please forgive me of my crimes
Em D G
Sanctify this withered heart of mine
Em D G
Stay with me until my life is through
Em D G
And on that day please take me home with you"
G
I can smell the death on the sheets
Covering me
D A
I can't believe this is the end
G
I can hear You whisper to me,
"It's time to leave
G/Bb D A
You'll never be lonely again"
D G
But this was my deathbed
A Bm
I died there alone
D G
When I closed my eyes tonight
A G/D D
You carried me home
During the instrumental, its all : G D
[Jon Foreman of Switchfoot sings]
D F#/D
I am the Way
Bm
Follow Me
G A
And take My hand
D F#/D
And I am the Truth
Bm A G
Embrace Me and you'll understand
D F#/D
And I am the Light
C G
And for Me you'll live again
G A Bm
For I am Love
G A Bm
I am Love
D/F# G G A D
I, I am Love
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