Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
F#
F#sus4
F#
B
F#
Somebody
B
F#
else I knew just died
F#dim
B
Went away of all flesh,
Bm
F#
but I can't say I cried
F#dim
B
F#
When I heard the sad news about him
F#dim
B
I thought, "he's off the hook,
F#
B
Somebody else I
G#m
B
F#
knew just died
Verse 2
F#
B
F#
Somebody else I knew just passed
F#dim
B
We might be built for speed,
Bm
F#
but we're not made to last
F#dim
B
And in the end a machine's obsolete
F#
F#dim
B
And a life is a thing
F#
B
F#
Somebody else I knew just passed
Interlude 1
F#
B
F#
F#dim
B
Bm
F#
F#dim
B
F#
F#m
B
F#sus4
Bm
F#
F#sus4
F#
Verse 3
C#
B
He was a guy, just somebody I knew
G#m
G#
F#
Just a guilty survivor,
B
C#
could've been me instead
Verse 4
C#
F#
B
F#
Somebody else I knew is gone
F#dim
B
Ah, you don't see it coming,
Bm
F#
but you know all along
F#dim
F#m
Still you can't quite be
B
F#
lieve that it's true
F#dim
B
Bm
How could such a thing really
happen to you?
F#
B
F#
Somebody else I knew is gone
Verse 5
B
F#
Somebody else I knew is dead
F#dim
B
That's all she wrote,
Bm
F#
what else is said?
F#dim
B
F#
He's not here, but soon we'll join him
F#dim
B
Now he's off the hook,
F#
B
F#
Somebody else I knew is dead
Interlude 2
F#
F#sus4
F#
F#m
G#m
Bm
F#
F#dim
G#m
B
F#
F#m
Bm
Verse 6
Bm
F#
F#
Oh, somebody else I knew just passed
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# F#sus4 B F#dim Bm...
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