Chords for 'When It's Cold I'd Like to Die' | Resound NYC | The Story Behind the Song
Tempo:
82.75 bpm
Chords used:
Am
G
F
C
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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So in 1994, I was living in this apartment and to [Am] be honest, I was at the end of [G] a really sad,
[F] relationship.
[Am] was,
[C] very different time in New York.
dealers
[F] though our relationship was completely sad and dysfunctional,
[Am] little pit bull named Walnut.
[C] And all the drug dealers on this street
[F] relationship.
[Am] was,
[C] very different time in New York.
dealers
[F] though our relationship was completely sad and dysfunctional,
[Am] little pit bull named Walnut.
[C] And all the drug dealers on this street
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So in 1994, I was living in this apartment and to [Am] be honest, I was at the end of [G] a really _ sad,
dysfunctional [F] relationship.
And this street at that time _
[Am] was,
_ _ it was a [C] very different time in New York.
This street was filled [G] with crack dealers
and _ [A] my then girlfriend and I, even [F] though our relationship was completely sad and dysfunctional,
we had the most adorable [Am] little pit bull named Walnut.
[C] And all the drug dealers on this street
were so tough, [G] except when Walnut walked by.
They loved [F] Walnut.
So these tough,
mean drug dealers [Am] would turn into little kids when they saw Walnut the dog.
But as wonderful [C] as Walnut was, the relationship was [G] doomed from the beginning and it just sort of
got more dysfunctional and sadder.
[F] And I was working on the album, Everything is Wrong.
_ And [Am] I wrote a song with a friend of mine named [C] Mimi Gazey called When It's Cold I'd Like to Die.
And even though the song isn't [G] necessarily about a relationship for me, it felt [F] so much like
living in this apartment at the [Am] end of this relationship, just the sadness and the
[C] _ resignation.
_ And [G] so When It's Cold I'd Like to Die, it was a very obscure song.
I'll sort of [F] put it in a little bit of context.
When it was released, [Am] I was mainly known as a
rave performer.
Like I was making [C] Feeling So Real and Thousand and Go and these big rave songs.
[G] And When It's Cold I'd Like to Die was this very quiet song, had no drums,
[F] was about as far from a rave anthem as you could get.
But I fell in [Am] love with this song and I put
it on Everything is Wrong.
And [C] it was always a sort of obscure song that was a lot of people's
[G] favorites.
But then last summer, it featured in Stranger [F] Things.
And in my ignorance, I didn't
know it was going to be in Stranger Things.
And I was watching the season [Am] finale of Last Stranger
Things.
And all of a sudden, When [C] It's Cold I'd Like to Die came on.
And like many people,
I [G] found myself crying, like sitting on my couch, watching TV, [F] crying to my own song that had been
recorded here [Am] in 1994 at the end of such a dysfunctional, sad [C] relationship. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
dysfunctional [F] relationship.
And this street at that time _
[Am] was,
_ _ it was a [C] very different time in New York.
This street was filled [G] with crack dealers
and _ [A] my then girlfriend and I, even [F] though our relationship was completely sad and dysfunctional,
we had the most adorable [Am] little pit bull named Walnut.
[C] And all the drug dealers on this street
were so tough, [G] except when Walnut walked by.
They loved [F] Walnut.
So these tough,
mean drug dealers [Am] would turn into little kids when they saw Walnut the dog.
But as wonderful [C] as Walnut was, the relationship was [G] doomed from the beginning and it just sort of
got more dysfunctional and sadder.
[F] And I was working on the album, Everything is Wrong.
_ And [Am] I wrote a song with a friend of mine named [C] Mimi Gazey called When It's Cold I'd Like to Die.
And even though the song isn't [G] necessarily about a relationship for me, it felt [F] so much like
living in this apartment at the [Am] end of this relationship, just the sadness and the
[C] _ resignation.
_ And [G] so When It's Cold I'd Like to Die, it was a very obscure song.
I'll sort of [F] put it in a little bit of context.
When it was released, [Am] I was mainly known as a
rave performer.
Like I was making [C] Feeling So Real and Thousand and Go and these big rave songs.
[G] And When It's Cold I'd Like to Die was this very quiet song, had no drums,
[F] was about as far from a rave anthem as you could get.
But I fell in [Am] love with this song and I put
it on Everything is Wrong.
And [C] it was always a sort of obscure song that was a lot of people's
[G] favorites.
But then last summer, it featured in Stranger [F] Things.
And in my ignorance, I didn't
know it was going to be in Stranger Things.
And I was watching the season [Am] finale of Last Stranger
Things.
And all of a sudden, When [C] It's Cold I'd Like to Die came on.
And like many people,
I [G] found myself crying, like sitting on my couch, watching TV, [F] crying to my own song that had been
recorded here [Am] in 1994 at the end of such a dysfunctional, sad [C] relationship. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _