Guitar Tab:Erase

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Erase
By: They Might Be Giants
Key: G Major
Year: 2015
Tabbed By: ant

riff x4:
D |------------------2-0---------------------|
A |------3-2---------------------------------|
E |2-3---------2-3---------2-3---3-2---0-2-3-|

       G      G     G     G       G        G   D6  G
You and I will be together when we shed our memory
       G       G      G       G      G      G    D6   G
I won't wear an orange sweater when I get it off of me
         G     G       G     G      G         G     D6      G
When it's as it someday is it always will have been the case
         G    G         G      G         G      G       D6  (G)
When your ever-searching finger finds the button marked erase


C                              G (riff x.5)
Finger find the button marked erase
C                             Am         D
Like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid's embrace


(riff x2)
    G       G          G         G          G             G             D6        G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
     G        G          G           G              G           G       D6    G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one


   Em  Em     Em Em C
Button marked eraaaaase
     G                Am
When darlings must be murdered 
          C              D
When your heartbreak overwhelms your heart


(riff x2)
        G       G       G        G           G     G     D6      G
Think of this as solving problems that should never have occurred 
            G       G       G      G        G       G  D6     G
Please don't call it strangu-lation, that is such an ugly word


C                               G (riff x.5)
Press erase, ignore the shrill alarms
C                              Am             D
See the way the deep sea diver falls into the mermaid's arms


(riff x2)
    G       G          G         G          G             G             D6        G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
     G        G          G           G              G           G       D6    G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one


   Em  Em     Em Em C
Button marked eraaaaase
     G                Am
When darlings must be murdered 
          C              D
When your heartbreak overrides the very

NC    Em  Em Em  Em  C (9 in vocal harmony)
Thing you cannot faaaace
    G              Am
The skeletons that won't stay down
    C               D
The mercy kill that can't be drowned

   G     G          G      G         G      G        D6      G
Put   box   sidewalk   then    return   next   first one gone
        G    G     G     G        G     G      D6    G
Everyone   on   bus   out   lights   out   one by one

C                              G (riff x.5)
Finger find the button marked erase
C                             Am        D 
Like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid's embrace


(riff x2, 8va the second time if you wish)
    G       G          G         G          G             G             D6        G
Put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one's gone
     G        G          G           G              G           G       D6    G
Everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one