Relient K – Deathbed (Ukulele)

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wow, this song is amazing. Please rate... 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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