Reina Del Cid - The Cooling Chords

G Bm Em D C C D D (x2)

    G              Bm
The first thing to go 
             Em          D
it might surprise you to know 
             C
it's not the blood from the muscle
       D
or the strength from the bone

G               Bm
Between you and me
         Em       D
it's the simplest thing 
         C
it's the warmth of the body
         D
when the soul is at home


         Em    Bm 
It's the heat (mm)
        C                   D
and you struggle to keep it inside
       Em     Bm
but it seems (mm) 
     C                    D
it's stealing away in the night



         G        Bm
When you first realized
          Em       D
that your body had died
    C
you went to the tunnel
   D
to wait there alone

        G               Bm
And you stood there for days
        Em          D
but the light never came
       C
so you took your poor body 
        D
and you walked it back home

            G           Bm
Now you're popping some pills
      Em             D
oh to fight back the chill
           C
and you're picking some flowers
   D
to help with the stench

       G         Bm
But no manner of blush
     Em       D
will be quite enough
    C
to cover the pallor 
     D
that spreads 'cross your skin


         Em    Bm
and they said (mm)
     C                      D
that hell would be fire and smoke
           Em   Bm
but in the end (mm)
          C                           D
it's this cooling that scares you the most



          G            Bm
There's a pretty young thing
       Em          D
with a pretty gold ring
         C
and she talks to you every night
           D
'cause she don't know you're dead

        G            Bm
And you can't figure how
            Em              D
when you're walking through town
         C
no one's noticed the knife
         D
sticking out of your head

           G         Bm
Now you're living in fear
     Em            D
that sometime this year
          C
they will finally notice
          D
that your heart doesn't beat

            G         Bm
And they'll dig you a grave
            Em       D
and they'll put you away 
        C
but you still won't be ready
            D
you'll grow back like a weed


       Em    Bm
Like a weed (mm)
        C                          D
and you wonder what you're waiting for
          Em     Bm
'cause it seems (mm)
           C              D
there's no honor in death anymore