Maybe Chords by Dan Reeder

[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ The first guy I knew who died, can't remember his [E] name.
The 10th grade started, he just never [B] came again.
All his friends sat around and cried for a day [F#] or two. _ _ _
You can [B] say what you want about a mortal soul.
[E] When that guy died, it left a [B] hole.
It was my first [F#] clue that when they're gone, [B] they're gone. _
_ _ Maybe [E] Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure.
[B] Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure.
Maybe [F#] you'll come back someday as a [B] king prong.
_ _ _ Maybe [E]
angels come and take you away to [B] heaven, or the other [F#] way.
But from down here it appears that when they're [B] gone, they're gone. _ _ _
_ Me and Stevie [F#] Gibson used [B] to walk home [F#] from school.
[E] He used to have this with the turnaround rule.
If [B] you turn around one way, you got to turn around the other [F#] way or it's bad luck.
_ _ _ _ [B] Went out rafting on the river.
The river [E] went around and the raft went around.
And his [B] luck got all wound up and he [F#] drowned and he [B] was gone.
_ _ Maybe [E] Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure.
[B] Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure.
Maybe [F#] you'll come back someday as a king [B] prong.
[F#] _ _ [B] _
_ [E] Maybe angels come and take you away to [B] heaven, or the other way.
But [F#] from down here it appears that when they're gone, they're [B] gone. _
_ _ _ _ Two weeks after Dieter died, you could call him [F#] on the phone.
[E] He would tell you that he's not [B] home.
And it gave you an eerie feeling even though you knew it was just an [F#] answering machine.
_ _ _ [B]
Somewhere deep inside you know [E] they don't come back when they [B] go.
And he had gone and [F#] when they're gone, [B] they're gone. _ _ _
Maybe [E] Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure.
[B] Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure.
Maybe [F#] you'll come back someday as a [B] bug in a lawn.
_ _ Maybe [F#] _ [E] angels come and take you [B] away to heaven, or the other [F#] way.
But from down here it appears that when they're [B] gone, they're gone. _ _ _ _
My mother died in intensive [F#] care.
[E] We were sitting around singing on folding [B] chairs when I got the feeling somebody wasn't [F#] there. _ _ _ _
_ [B] Well I counted noses but it came out right.
[E] The doctors say she died that [B] night but I felt that hole and I [F#] knew that she [B] was gone. _
_ Maybe _ [E] Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure.
[B] Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure.
Maybe [F#] you'll come back someday as a [B] king prawn.
_ _ _ [F#] Maybe [E] angels come and take you away to [B] heaven, or the other way.
[F#] But from down here it appears that when they're gone, they're [B] gone. _ _ _
I looked up death in the dictionary [F#] one day just [E] to see what the dictionary had to say.
[B] It's the complete and irreversible cessation of [F#] life functions. _
_ _ Which is [B] not very poetic but it's precise and clean.
And if you [E] analyze it, what that [B] means is when they're gone, _ [F#] _ [B] they're gone.
_ _ _ Maybe [E] Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure.
[B] Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure.
[F#] Maybe you'll come back someday as a king [B] prawn. _ _ _ _
[E] Maybe angels come and take you away [B] to heaven, or the other way.
[F#] But from down here it appears that when they're gone, they're gone. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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