G#m  466444
Eb7  x68686
B    799877
E    x79997

N.C
*The chords are mapped on beat, in the verses the strumming pattern is off beat (see strumming pattern)

[Intro]

G#m G#m G#m Eb7 (2x)

[Verse 1: Dad]

G#m
Time flew by so quickly
         B
Life was tickity booten by the night
    Eb7
The bucks, the change
                     G#m
The weeks, the daily grind
                        B
Seventeen years young I lost my son
  Eb7        G#m
I    lost my son
  G#m        B
I fake being positive
   Eb7                            G#m
Everything they tell you makes no difference to me
     G#m            B
Best medicine, best doctors
     Eb7               G#m
Best efforts round the clock


[Chorus 1: Dad]

B               Eb7        G#m
God why did you do this to me?
B               Eb7        G#m
God why did you do this to me?
  B
A feat you can't concede
  Eb7
A loss you can't believe
  E                G#m
A pain you can't relieve


[Verse 2: Dad]

  B        Eb7
Insanely unfair
E         G#m
Beyond compare
  B              Eb7
Family's not the same
E                  G#m
Holes and caps and pain
B   Eb7      G#m
Irreversible stains
B               Eb7                G#m
Thirty years of hard work down the drain
  B            Eb7
A head full of gray
E        G#m
Pounding rain
B             Eb7       G#m
It just keeps coming in waves
B             Eb7       G#m
It just keeps coming in waves


[Chorus 2: Dad]

B               Eb7        G#m
God why did you do this to me?
B               Eb7        G#m
God why did you do this to me?
  B            Eb7
I lived by the good book
   E                    G#m
My work meant something when I shook
  B                 Eb7
I feel like they're all crooks
E              G#m
Cancer devils, filthy hooks
   B               Eb7      G#m
My son, he gave me one last look


[Bridge: Son]

N.C.
You aren't supposed to bury your kid
N.C
The burden I carry I barely keep hid


[Dad]
      B            Eb7
Where do I go from here?
    E                G#m
I'm overwrought with fears
       B             Eb7            G#m
I just want to drink twenty fucking beers!


[Son]
N.C
But that won't help and that won't mend ya
N.C.
Have some hope that you can lend


[Dad]
    B              Eb7       G#m
I'm barely coping, tiring to pretend
            B   Eb7    E  G#m
I'm fucking mad at the universe!
    B  Eb7   E  G#m
I'm beyond bewildered


[Son]
         B              Eb7
I have a gaping fucking wound!


[Dad]
     E           G#m
I'm immeasurably confused!


[Outro: Son and dad]
             B                 Eb7                     E             G#m
If there was one thing in this cold world I could have chosen not to lose
       B    Eb7  E   G#m
It was you, you, you
       B    Eb7  E   G#m
It was you, you, you
           B                 Eb7                     E             G#m
If there's one thing in this cold world I could have chosen not to lose
       B    Eb7  E   G#m
It was you, you, you
       B
It was you