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If We Were Vampires Tabs

(ver. 1)
Jason Isbell
[Intro]
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                                                                                             It's not the

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   long flowing dress that you're in.         Or the  light coming off of your skin.         The fragile

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   heart you protected for so long.            Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong. It's not your

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   hands, seraching slow in the dark.          Or your nails leaving love's watermark.     It's not the

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   way you talk me off the roof.                 Your questions like directions to the truth.         It's

[Chorus]
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   knowing that this can't go on forever.              Likely one of ous will have to spend some days alone.

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  Maybe we'll get forty years together. But one day I'll be gone, or one day you'll be gone.      If we were

[Verse]
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  vampires and death was a joke.              We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke                     and

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   laugh at all the lovers and thier plans.         I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand.      Maybe

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   time running out is a gift.              I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift.

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   Give you every second I can find               and hop it isn't me who's left behind.              It's

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   knowing that this can't go on forever.              Likely one of ous will have to spend some days alone.

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  Maybe we'll get forty years together. But one day I'll be gone, or one day you'll be gone.

[Verse]
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                                                                                                      It's
[Chorus]
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   knowing that this can't go on forever.              Likely one of ous will have to spend some days alone.

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  Maybe we'll get forty years together. But one day I'll be gone, or one day you'll be

[Outro]
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   gone.                                                                        [strum and let ring]            
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