Deathbed

I can smell the death on [F]the sheets
Co[F]vering me
[F]I can't believe this [F/G]is the end     [C]

But this[C] is my deathbe[F]d
I l[G]ie here alo[Am]ne
If I c[C]lose my eyes tonight  [F]
I kn[G]ow I'll be home [C]

The year[C] was nineteen forty one            [G]
I was eigh[Bb]t years old and
Far, far too young   [F]
To kno[C]w that the stories
Of batt[G]les and glory
Was a tale[Bb] a kind mother
Made up fo[F]r her son

You see
[C]Dad was a traveling preacher     [G]
[Bb]Teaching the words of the Teacher         [F]
My moth[C]er had sworn he
Went off [G]to the war
And died[Bb] there with honor
Somewhere o[F]n a beach there
But he left[Am] once to never return    [Ab]
Which taught[C/G] me that I should unlearn           [D/F#]
Whatever [F]I thought a father should [C]be
I aband[Eb]oned that thought
Like he abando[D/F#]ned me

By for[D]ty seven I was fourteen    [A/C#]
I'd acquir[C]ed a taste for liquor and nicotine           [G]
I smo[Bb]ked until I threw up       [D/A]
Yet I still lit 'em up    [A]
For thir[Ab]ty more years   [G]
Like a machine[D]

So rig[F]ht there you have it             [C]
That one [F]filthy habit          [C]
Is what got [F/D]me where I am toda[C]y        [G]

I can smell the death on t[F]he sheets

Covering me
I can't believe this i[F/G]s the end      [C]                [G]
I can hear those sad memori[F]es

Still haunting me

So many things
[F/G]I'd do ag[C]ain      [G]

But thi[C]s is my deathbed [F]
I [G]lie here alo[Am]ne
If I clo[C]se my eyes tonight   [F]
I kno[G]w I'll be home   [C]

I got marri[C]ed on my twenty first           [G]
E[Bb]ight months before my wife would giv[F]e birth
It's ea[C]sier to be sure you love someon[G]e
When her father i[Bb]nquires with the barrel of a gun   [F]
The unio[Am]n was far from harmonious   [E/G#]
No two people [C/G]could have been more alone than us       [D/F#]
The year[F]s would go by and she'd love someone else   [C]
And I realize[Eb]d I hadn't been loved yet my[D/F#]self

From there [D]it's your typical spiel         [A]
Yeah if life[C] was a highway
I was drun[G]k at the wheel
I was seei[Bb]ng the loose ends
[D/A]All fall apart
Yeah I swear [A]I was destined to[Ab] fail           [G]
And fail[F#] from the start   [D]

I bo[F]wled about six times a week          [C]
The bot[F]tle of Beam kept the memories from me    [C]
The marria[F]ge had taken a seven-ten split [C]
And alon[F/D]g with my pride the e[C]x-wife took the kid[G]s

I can smell the death on t[F]he sheets

Covering me
I can't believe this i[F/G]s the end     [C]              [G]
I can hear those sad memori[F]es

Still haunting me

So many things
[F/G]I'd do a[C]gain      [G]

But this[C] is my deathbed [F]
I [G]lie here alo[Am]ne
If I cl[C]ose my eyes tonight   [F]
I kno[G]w I'll be home  [C]

I was so s[C]cared of Jesus
But H[G/D]e sought me out
Like the cance[Bb]r in my lungs
That's killi[F]ng me now
And I've given[C] up hope
On the days [G/D]I have left
But I clin[Bb]g to the hope
Of my life[F] in the next
Then Jesus[Am] showed up
Said, "Be[E/G#]fore we go up
I t[C/G]hought that we might reminisce    [D/F#]
See one night i[F]n your life
When you turned out[C] the light
You asked f[Eb]or and prayed for my forgiveness"          [D]

You cried wolf  [D]
The tea[Bm]rs they soaked your fur          [A]
The bloo[G]d dripped from your fangs                   [Em]
You said[D], "What have I done?"       [A]
You loved that Lamb         [Em]
With every[D] sinful bone       [Bm]
And there y[A]ou wept alone
[G]Your hear[Em]t was so contrite      [A]

You said, "Jesus, pl[Em]ease forgive me of my cri[D]mes                        [G]
[Em]Sanctify this withered[D] heart of mine              [G]
[Em]Stay with me until my [D]life is through          [G]
And on [Em]that day please take me home with[D] you"                            [G]

I can smell the death on the s[G]heets

Covering me
I can't believe this is the end              [D]                          [A]
I can hear You whisper to me, [G]

"It's time to leave
You'll never be lonely again"[G/Bb]         [D]                     [A]

But this[D] was my deathbed       [G]
I di[A]ed there alone   [Bm]
When I closed my [D]eyes tonight               [G]
You carried [A]me home          [G/D]                 [D]

During the instrumental, its all :   G          D

[Jon Foreman of Switchfoot sings]
[D]I am the Way [F#]    [D]
Follow Me   [Bm]
And take My hand         [G]                       [A]
And I a[D]m the Truth   [F#]      [D]
Embrace[Bm] Me and you'll understa[A]nd            [G]
And I a[D]m the Light   [F#]      [D]
And for Me you'[C]ll live again            [G]
For I [G]am[A] Love [Bm]
[G]I [A]am Lo[Bm]ve
[D/F#]I,     [G]      [G]   [A]     I[D] am Love

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