Maybe

     G
The first guy I knew who died I 
can't remember his name
     C
the tenth grade started he just 
never came again
G
  all his friends sat around and 
cried
      D
for a day or two

         G
You can say what you want about 
immortal soul
      C
when that guy died it left a hole
       G
it was my first clue
      D                         G
that when they're gone they're gone

[Chorus]
       C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not 
sure
       G
maybe you can live forever if your 
heart is pure
          D                        
or maybe you'll come back some day 
           G
as a king prawn

       C                           
Maybe angels come and take you away
     G
 to heaven or the other way
    D                              
but from down here it appears that 
                           G
when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
G
Me and Stevie Gibson used to walk 
home from school
C
he used to have this little turn 
around rule
       G
if you turn around the one way gotta
 turn around the other way or
     D
it's bad luck

   G
He went out rafting on the river
                 C
the river went around and the raft 
went around
                 G                 
and his luck got all wound up and 
    D
he drowned
            G
and he was gone

[Chorus]
       C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not 
sure
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       G
maybe you can live forever if your 
heart is pure
          D                        
or maybe you'll come back some day 
           G
as a king prawn

      C                            
Maybe angels come and take you away
     G
 to heaven or the other way
    D                              
but from down here it appears that 
                           G
when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]

 G
Two weeks after Dieter died you 
could call him on the phone
C
and he would tell you that he's not 
home
        G
and it gave you an eerie feeling 
even though you knew
               D
it was just an answering machine

        G
'Cause somewhere deep inside you 
know
       C
that they don't come back when they 
go
     G                D
and he had gone and when they're 
gone
         G
they're gone

[Chorus]
       C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not 
sure
       G
maybe you can live forever if your 
heart is pure
           D                       
or maybe you'll come back some day 
           G
as a king prawn

       C                           
Maybe angels come and take you away
     G
 to heaven or the other way
    D                              
but from down here it appears that 
                           G
when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
G
My mother died in intensive care
         C
we were sitting around singing on 
folding chairs
     G
when I got the feeling
                      D
somebody wasn't there

        G
Well I counted noses but it came out
 right
     C
the doctors said she died that night
       G                    D
but I felt that hole and I knew that
         G
she was gone

[Chorus]
       C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not 
sure
       G
maybe you can live forever if your 
heart is pure
           D                       
or maybe you'll come back some day 
           G
as a king prawn

      C                            
Maybe angels come and take you away
     G
 to heaven or the other way
     D                             
but from down here it appears that 
                           G
when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
   G
I looked up death in the dictionary 
one day
         C
just to see what the dictionary had 
to say
              G
it's the complete and irreversible 
cessation of
      D
life functions

          G
Which is not very poetic but it's 
precise and clean
    C
and if you analyze it what that 
means is
G                 D
when they're gone
         G
they're gone

[Chorus]
       C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not 
sure
       G
maybe you can live forever if your 
heart is pure
           D                       
or maybe you'll come back some day 
           G
as a king prawn

       C                           
Maybe angels come and take you away
     G
 to heaven or the other way
    D                              
but from down here it appears that 
                           G
when they're gone they're gone