As Recorded by Colorfinger in “Deep in the Heart of the Beast in the Sun”INTRO (bass)
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VERSE 1 (All chords in this verse are heavily palm muted)
I woke up sweating in the sun Sprawled across my big brother’s grave
Shaking and drunk with sleep I crawled to my feet and walked up into the
shade of a young elm tree that must have been planted since last we came
Vicki my mom and me to clean the dirt from the plaque that says his
E F# E F#(lighter muting)
name
VERSE 2 (All chords in this verse with lighter palm muting)
Walking to my girlfriend’s car It came back down on me
Yeah, I guess I fell to my knees to keep from falling face first into the
dream The vision that had had me twisting out under the afternoon sky
I didn’t know it then but it was thirteen years to the day he died
E B E (x3 with no palm muting)
CHORUS (All chords in this chorus with no muting)
He held his hand to me
Like brothers we walked (we walked) through the colorless world of an
alcohol dream
I talked for hours Trying to break through the silence that he held to me
Then he started away, turned and said Keep it up so you can die like me
Yeah-eah so you can die like me
Go!
G# F# E A G# B (x3)
BRIDGE (Heavily Palm Muted)
Ever since my brother O.DR17;d I’ve drifted all over from town to town to town
Every place I go it’s always the same I keep doing junk I keep going down
Yeah my mama got religion my sisters gave up Man, I just gave up too
I just died inside Don’t wanna die like George
Don’t wanna die like George
Everyone says there’s things to see,
everyone’s pointing their fingers at me
CHORUS (Heavily Palm muted until after the first “He’s gonna die like me” then play with no muting)
I woke up driving after another blackout from another bad drug
I can’t shake this hell That I’ve made for myself for every other life I
touch See my sister217;s son walk the line I walk He’s only sixteen
If he don’t learn from my mistakes He’s gonna waste away,
He’s gonna die like me
He̵7;s gonna die like me
He’s gonna die like me He’s gonna die like me
He’s gonna die like me He’s gonna die like me
He’s gonna die like me He’s gonna die like me
He’s gonna die like me He’s gonna die like me
(Play an E to finish)
