The Sickness Unto Death

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Capo 2 (all chords relative to capo)

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old man in your rocking chair
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you wake up, you've been living alone

after all these years
C
surrounded by these shards of mirrors
F
and how'd it get so quiet here,
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you wonder, where did everyone go?


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you tried so hard to make people remember you for something
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you were not
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and if they so remember you then something else will certainly
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get forgotten
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life is for the living
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i've heard tell that it is while we are young

in the morning sun
C
you take every year as it comes
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but when your life is over
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all those years fold up like an accordion
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they collapse just like a broken lung



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now i've only got one organ left and this old bag of bones it is
Am               C
failing me
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i try to tell people that i'm dying only they don't believe me
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they say we're all dying,
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that we're all dying
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but if you are dying, why aren't you scared?
                  F
why aren't you scared
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like i'm scared?


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i read somewhere that when you face eternity you face it alone
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no matter what you thought
C
or what you had or you had not
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unless you put yourself in God
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but tell me God oh where did you go?


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every bitter night into an empty room i plead my case
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every night i pray that in the morning when i wake
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i'll be in a familiar place and find that i'm recovered and i'm sane
C
and i'll remember everything
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i'll remember what i was like before that bug bit me

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and when i have my childhood back
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i'll tear every page out of my book
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and place them in an urn
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strike a match and watch them burn
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then i'll hold the front cover
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against the back cover and look
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you'll see
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eternity will smile on me