Chords
The Bed Song

Key: G

Introduction:

difficulty
intermediate |||||
G  
Exhibit A,
Bm                                                                                    Em  
We are friends in a sleeping bag, splitting the heat
                     G                                                    C                                    G                                    C  
We have one filthy pillow to share and your lips are in my hair
G                                                         Bm  
Someone upstairs has a rat that we laughed at
          Em  
And people are drinking
          G                                                      C                            G                 C  
And singing Van Halen and Slayer on a ukulele tear
G  
         B  
Bm  
Well, we found an apartment
Em  
It's not much to look at
G                              C  
A futon on a floor
                     G                                 C  
Torn-off desktop for a door
G                                                            Bm  
All the decor's made of milk crates and duct tape
Em  
And if we have sex
                        G                                                 C  
They can hear us through the floor
                                  G                         C  
But we don't do that anymore
          G                                                         Em  
And I lay there wondering, what is the matter?
G                                                 Em  
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
G                                                              Em  
You took the blanket, so I took the bedsheet
G                                                                         Em  
But I would have held you if you'd only
C  
Let me
G  
         C  
Bm  
Look how quaint
                                             Em  
And how quiet and private
                                                  G                                                    C  
Our paychecks have bought us a condo in town
                        G                            C  
It's the nicest flat around
G                                                                 Bm  
You picked a mattress and had it delivered
          Em  
And I walked upstairs
                     G                                                                 C  
And the sight of it made my heart pound
                G                                      C  
And I wrapped my arms around me
          G                                                              Em  
And I stood there wondering, what is the matter?
G                                                 Em  
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
G                                                                         Em  
You walked right past me and straightened the covers
G                                                                                      Em                 C  
But I would still love you if you wanted a lover
                     C                                                                      Em         D/F#      G        Am              Bm  
But you said, 'All the money in the world won't buy a                 bed so big and wide,
                                                                        Em  D/F#  G              Am                 Bm  
to guarantee that you won't acci - dentally              touch me in the night.'
G  
         D  
Bm  
Now we're both mostly paralyzed
Em                                                                            G                                 C  
Don't know how long we've been lying here in fear
                G                              C  
Too afraid to even feel
G                                                      Bm  
I find my glasses and you turn the light out
                  Em  
Roll off on your side
                                G                                      C  
Like you've rolled away for years
                     G                                                    C  
Holding back those king-size tears
          G                                                         Em  
And I still don't ask you, what is the matter?
G                                                 Em  
Is this a matter of worse or of better?
G  
You take the heart failure
Em  
I'll take the cancer
G                                                                      Em                              C  
I've long stopped wondering why you don't answer
G  
Exhibit E
                     Bm                                                 Em  
You can certainly see how fulfilling a life
                        G                                         C                              G                                 C  
From the cost and size of stone of our final resting home
G                                                                      Bm  
We got some nice ones right under a cherry tree
Em                                                 G                            C  
You and me lying the only way we know
                  G                                              C  
Side by side and still and cold
          G                                              Em  
And I finally ask you, what was the matter?
G                                              Em  
Was it a matter of worse or of better?
G                                                                            Em  
You stretch your arms out and finally face me
                     G  
You say I would have told you
        Em                      C  
If you'd only asked me
        Em                      C  
If you'd only asked me
        Em                      C  
If you'd only asked me