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
