Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit – If We Were Vampires (Ukulele)

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[Verse 1]
              Am            C                A#
It's not the long, flowing dress that you're in

        Am           C          A#
Or the light coming off of your skin

             Dm                        F
The fragile heart you protected for so long

        Dm                              F    C
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong

               Am              C          A#
It's not your hands searching slow in the dark

         Am            C          A#
Or your nails leaving love's watermark

              Dm                      F
It's not the way you talk me off the roof

       Dm                              F    C
Your questions like directions to the truth
[Chorus]
       Dm                             F
It's knowing that this can't go on forever

   Dm                            F            C
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone

  Dm                          F
Maybe we'll get forty years together

   C                 Dm
But one day I'll be gone

   Dm                 F    C
Or one day you'll be gone
[Verse 2]
             Am           C         A#
If we were vampires and death was a joke

        Am          C           A#
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke

         Dm                      F
Laugh at all the lovers and their plans

    Dm                                 F   C
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand

       Am           C       A#
Maybe time running out is a gift

           Am           C         A#
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift

     Dm                          F
And give you every second I can find

     Dm                          F    C
And hope it isn't me who's left behind
[Chorus]
       Dm                               F
It's knowing that this can't go on forever

  Dm                           F              C
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone

  Dm                          F
Maybe we'll get forty years together

   C                Dm
But one day I'll be gone

                     F    C
Or one day you'll be gone

       Dm                          F
It's knowing that this can't go on forever

  Dm                          F               C
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone

  Dm                          F
Maybe we'll get forty years together

   C                Dm
But one day I'll be gone

                      F   C
Or one day you'll be gone