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When I Die
The Thermals
D#m G#m C#m F#
The Earth was too hot, The air was too thin
D#m G#m C#m F#
I took off my clothes, I took off my skin
D#m G#m C#m F# E
I crawled to the sea that was calling for me so I could swim...
F#
Yeah, so I could swim!
B F# E F# x2
B C#m B F#
B F# E F#
I was sick of the land, I was sick from the heat,
B F# E F#
I was sick of the sun and the sky and the trees,
B C#m
Over the air that I needed to breathe
F#
When I held with my hands, when I walked on my feet
B F# E F#
I took off my clothes, I took off my skin
B F# E F#
Started shedding my arms to start getting my fins
B C#m B
Crawled to the sea that was calling for me so I could swim,
F#
Swim the ocean wide
G#m C#m F#
I was only just past the low tide
B E
When I died
B E
When I died
B
Yeah, when I died
C#
My head did swell
B
I said to myself
F#
Nature sure took her sweet time
G#m C#m F#
I was already losing my spine
B F# E F#
I was sick with horror when my curtain fell
B F# E F#
It's the end of the story I was certain to tell
B C#m
Watching their faces as they pulled me from the sea
F#
Feeling for the place I thought my gills would be
B F# E F#
Busted and wrecked, justly infected
B F# E F#
My body beyond repair
B C#m
Had no objection, sir, my only questions were
F#
Where do I go and will I know when I'm there?
G#m C#m F#
But I really couldn't say that I cared
B E
When I died
B E
When I died
B
Yeah, when I died
C#
My head did swell
B
I said to myself
F#
Nature sure took her sweet time
E
I was already losing
D#m G#m C#m F# D#m G#m
Yeah, my spine!
C#m F# D#m G#m C#m F#
(I was already losing my spine
D#m G#m C#m F#
If life was short, at least it was short)
D#m G#m C#m F#
The Earth was too hot, The air was too thin
D#m G#m C#m F#
I took off my clothes, I took off my skin
D#m G#m C#m F# E
I crawled to the sea that was calling for me so I could swim...
F#
Yeah, so I could swim!
B F# E F# x2
B C#m B F#
B E
When I died
B E
When I died
B
Yeah, when I died
C#
My head did swell
B
I said to myself
F#
Nature sure took her sweet time
E
I was already losing
F# B
Yeah, my spine!
Written by Kathy Foster/Hutch Harris