Deathbed Cifras

[Chorus 1]
                  F                     F
I can smell the death on the sheets covering me
   F              F           C G
I can't believe this is the end
      C            F        G        Am
But this is my deathbed, I lie here alone
      C               Am        G            C
If I close my eyes tonight I know I'll be home
 
but this is my deathbed
 
 
[Verse 1]
  C            F
The year was 1941
         G                    Am           C
I was eight years old and far, far too young
     Am              G           F        C
To know that the stories of battles and glory
       F           G                      Am
Was a tale a kind mother made up for her son
           C           G         Am
You see, dad was a traveling preacher
     G         F             Am
Teachin' the words of the Teacher
       C         F             C         G
But mother had sworn he went off to the war
      C               F
And died there with honor
     G           Am
Somewhere on a beach there
         Am                  F
But he left once to never return
         G                      Am
Which taught me that I should unlearn
   C          F         C           G
Whatever I thought a father should be
       C           F                 G      Am
I abandoned that thought like he abandoned me
     C            F
By '47, I was fourteen
       G                               Am
I'd acquired a taste for liquor and nicotine
C                  G
I smoked until I threw up
                     Am                  F
Yet I still lit 'em up for thirty more years
          Am
Like a machine
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
      C                     F
So right there you have it
      C                 G
That one filthy habit
         F            G     Am
Is what got me where I am today
 
 
[Chorus 2]
 
 
                  F                     F
I can smell the death on the sheets covering me
   F              F           C G
I can't believe this is the end
                  F               F
I can hear those sad memories still haunting me
 F                      C    G
so many things I'd do again
      C            F        G        Am
But this is my deathbed, I lie here alone
      C               Am        G            C
If I close my eyes tonight, I know I'll be home
 
 
[Verse 2]
   C                     F
Got married on my twenty-first
  G                      Am              C
Eight months before my wife would give birth
  Am                         G
It's easier to be sure you love someone
           F         G               Am
When her father inquires with the barrel of a gun
      C                     F
The union was far from harmonious
          G                          Am
No two people could have been more alone than us
      C             F             C            G
The years would go by and she'd love someone else
          C        F            G         Am
And I realized I hadn't been loved yet myself
        C                      F
From there it's your typical spiel
           G                         Am
Yeah, if life was a highway, I was drunk at the wheel (Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo)
         C           F         G        Am
I was helping the loose ends all fall apart (Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo)
          Am            G         F         G             C
Yeah, I swear I was destined to fail, and fail from the start
     C                       G
I bowled about six times a week
     C        F               C         Am
A bottle of Beam kept the memories from me
        C                    G        Am
Our marriage had taken a seven-ten split
       C             F            G             Am
And along with my pride, the ex-wife took the kids
 
 
[Chorus 2]
                  F                     F
I can smell the death on the sheets covering me
   F              F           C G
I can't believe this is the end
                  F               F
I can hear those sad memories still haunting me
 F                      C    G
so many things I'd do again
      C            F        G        Am
But this is my deathbed, I lie here alone
      C               Am        G            C
If I close my eyes tonight, I know I'll be home
 
[Bridge 1]
       C                       F
I was so scared of Jesus, but He sought me out
            G                         Am
Like the cancer in my lungs that's killing me now
           C        F           G           Am
And I've given up hope on the days I have left
         Am          G          F           C
But I cling to the hope of my life in the next
        C           F          C           G
Then Jesus showed up, said, "Before we go up
      C             F        Am
I thought that we might reminisce
          C              F             C             G
See, one night in your life when you turned out the lights
      C              F        G          Am
You asked for and prayed for My forgiveness"
 
 
[Bridge 2]
           Am
You cried wolf
                             G
The tears they soaked your fur
                              F
The blood dripped from your fangs
                         Am
You said, "What have I done?"
                 Am
You loved that Lamb
                    C
With every sinful bone
                     F
And there you wept alone
                      G
Your heart was so contrite
             C                              Am
You said, "Jesus, please forgive me of my crimes
     C                            Am
Sanctify this withered heart of mine
  C                              F
Stay with me until my life is through
  C                       F                C
And on that day, please take me home with You"
 
 
[Chorus 3]
                  F                    F
I can smell the death on the sheets covering me
 F                F           C  G
I can't believe this is the end
                 F               F
I can hear You whisper to me, "It's time to leave
  F                F     C     G
You'll never be lonely again"
       C            F          G        Am
But this was my deathbed, I died there alone
          C             Am      G               C
When I closed my eyes tonight, You carried me home
 
 
[Interlude]
G/D D x9
 
[Outro]
C          G
I am the Way
        F               Am
Follow Me and take My hand
    C           G
And I am the Truth
    F                         Am
Embrace Me and you'll understand
   C           G
And I am the Life
             F                Am
And through Me, you'll live again
    C F   G
For I am Love
F  G  Am
I am Love
C  Am
I, I
Am G   C
I am Love
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