Ballad Of The Dying Man

	  		
Intro  
F  Fmaj7  F7  F  Bb  F/A  Gm  Abdim7  Gm (Gm7) 
  
verse 1  
F                   Dm    Eb           Gm (Gm7) 
Naturally the dying man wonders to himself: 
F                          Dm   Eb           Gm (Gm7) 
Has commentary been more lucid than anybody else? 
     Am                                   F7 
And had he successively beaten back the rising tide 
                Dm                  Db(5b) 
Of idiots, dilettantes, and fools 
                 Abdim7      Gm 
On his watch while he was alive 
F        Abdim7            Db    Dm 
Lord, just a little more time 
  
    F Fmaj7 F7     F 
Oh, in no time at all 
               Bb  F/A  Gm 
This'll be the distant past 
G7    Gm (Gm7) 
Ooh 

  
verse 2  
F                 Dm   Eb              Gm (Gm7) 
So says the dying man once I'm in the box 
F                           Dm   Eb            Gm (Gm7) 
Just think of all the overrated hacks running amok 
                 Am                                   F7 
And all of the pretentious, ignorant voices that will go unchecked 
                 Dm                 Db(5b) 
The homophobes, hipsters, and 1% 
                          Abdim7      Gm 
The false feminists he'd managed to detect 
F          Abdim7                     Db    Dm 
Oh, who will critique them once he's left? 
  
    F Fmaj7 F7     F 
Oh, in no time at all 
               Bb  F/A  C  
This'll be the distant past 

  
Bridge  
Ab                  C               F         Bb 
What he'd give for one more day to rate and analyze 
Gm                     C           F        Bb 
The world made in his image as of yet to realize  
        Dm      Gm     C       
What a mess to leave behind 
  
verse 3  
F                    Dm   Eb             Gm (Gm7) 
Eventually the dying man takes his final breath 
F                              Dm      Eb                Gm (Gm7) 
But first checks his news feed to see what he's 'bout to miss 
        Am                        F7 
And it occurs to him a little late in the game 
             Dm                   Db(5b) 
We leave as clueless as we came 
                            Abdim7         Gm 
From rented heavens to the shadows in the cave 
F        Abdim7         Db    Dm 
We'll all be wrong someday 
  
Outro  
While Josh sings the "Oh oh oh" bit and the choir comes in, just repeat this sequence  
until the end of the song: 
  
Bb  F/A  Gm (Gm7)