If We Were Vampires

	  		
Tune guitar on full step down.  Use the following chord shapes.              

                       Em            Bm                C  
It's not the long, flowing dress that you're in  
                 Em           Bm                 C  
Or the light coming off of your skin  
             C                                                      G  
The fragile heart you protected for so long  
                C                                                  G    D 
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong  
               Em              Bm                               C  
It's not your hands searching slow in the dark  
         Em                      Bm                  C  
Or your nails leaving love's watermark  
                   C                                     G 
It's not the way you talk me off the roof  
                  C                                           G    D  
Your questions like directions to the truth  

       C                                                    G 
It's knowing that this can't go on forever  
  C                                             G                            D 
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone  
  C                                           G  
Maybe we'll get forty years together  
              D                  C  
But one day I'll be gone  
   C                               G  D      
Or one day you'll be gone 
 

verse 2  
             Em                           Bm              C  
If we were vampires and death was a joke  
        Em                         B                     C 
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke  
   C                                           Am     Em 
Laugh at all the lovers and their plans  
 C                                                           Am   G  
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand  
       Em                         Bm        C  
Maybe time running out is a gift  
           Em                    Bm             C  
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift  
     C                                                  G  
And give you every second I can find  
       C                                                 G   D 
And hope it isn't me who's left behind  
  
       C                                                   G 
It's knowing that this can't go on forever  
        C                                        G                           D  
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone  
  C                                                   G  
Maybe we'll get forty years together  
          D                        C  
But one day I'll be gone  
              C                    G    D  
Or one day you'll be gone  
       C                                                    G  
It's knowing that this can't go on forever  
       C                                        G                             D  
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone  
     C                                               G  
Maybe we'll get forty years together  
         D                         C  
But one day I'll be gone  
    C                              G    D 
Or one day you'll be gone