Key: D majorDifficulty: Intermediate
Verse 1
Eb
My head is pounding
Bb/D
I can't stop the pounding
Cm
Ab
I think it is going to explode
Eb
Bb/D
And kill everybody who's in close proximity
Cm
Ab
to the place I call my home
Eb
And they'll make a moving
Bb/D
made- for- TV movie
Cm
Ab
for Lifetime all about my life
Eb
That ends with an epitaph
Bb/D
one that will make you laugh
Cm
Ab
That says "great mom, okay wife"
Eb
Bb/D
And it'll be funny to the people who know me
Cm
Ab
Who know if my body's not burned
Eb
Bb/D
My soul will spend an eternity in misery
Cm
Ab
Tethered and bound to this earth
Eb
Bb/D
So I'm not a dick or a stick in the mud
Cm
Ab
always ruining things for my friends
Eb
Bb/D
I mustn't forget when I see the sun set
Cm
Ab
that tomorrow it will rise again
Chorus 1
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
So I tattoo instructions on my ass
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
That say "Don't ever put this body in a casket
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Burn it and put the ashes in a basket
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
And throw them in the Puget Sound
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
I don't ever want to be underground"
Ab
Oh, no, oh
Interlude 1
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
(no)
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
Bridge 1
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
I'm wearing size thirteen basketball shoes
Eb
Bb/D
And laugh at your fishnets
Cm
Ab
I'm freaked out and fucked up
Eb
Bb/D
And I'm standing alone
Cm
Ab
in an alley with you
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
Wanting to show you a cure for your hiccups
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
But instead I close my eyes
Eb
Bb/D
The needles are numbered
Cm
Ab
so I'm writing you letters
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
And I cannot disguise
Eb
Bb/D
The fact that I'm nervous
Cm
Ab
when we are together
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
And so I fanta size
Eb
Bb/D
That the nights will get shorter
Cm
Ab
and the days will get better
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
I feel a kick inside and sigh
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
If this is a girl I'm naming her Heather
Eb
Bb/D
She'll look just like you
Cm
Ab
but her hair will be feathered
Eb
Bb/D
She'll say how you died
Cm
Ab
Ab
before you ever met her
Ab
Ab
Her hair will be
Interlude 2
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
(feathered)
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Cm
Ab
Ab
Eb
Eb
Verse 2
Eb
My head is pounding
Bb/D
I can't stop the pounding
Cm
Ab
I think it is going to explode
Eb
Bb/D
There are plus and minuses to sinusitis
Cm
Ab
Like sometimes I get to go home
Eb
Bb/D
But mostly it hurts so bad I think I'm dying
Cm
I just blew my nose
Ab
and now I feel like crying
Eb
Bb/D
And the dreams I have are all of my past lives
Cm
And the seizures would paralyze
Ab
me in the night
Eb
Bb/D
And I wake up clutching my teddy bear tight
Cm
Ab
and I'm drooling and trying to turn on the light
Eb
Bb/D
All I can do is hold fast and sit tight
Cm
But what if they forget
Ab
'cause you know they just might
Chorus 2
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
So I tattoo instructions on my ass
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
That say "Don't ever put this body in a casket
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Burn it and put the ashes in a basket
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
And throw them in the Puget Sound
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
I don't ever want to be underground"
Ab
Oh, no, oh
Outro 1
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
(no)
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
Eb
Bb/D
Cm
Ab
Ab
Eb
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