Barenaked Ladies - When I Fall guitar tab

When I Fall - Barenaked Ladies

From the Album "Born on a Pirate Ship"

Words by Steven Page and Ed Robertson

Music by Ed Robertson

Transcribed by Matthew Nordhaus

Corrections Welcome!

CAPO 2 Chords indicated as capoed, not as absolute pitch)

INTRO: D G A Bm D/F# G (x2)

D G A Bm D/F# G

I look straight in the window, try not to look below

D G A E G

Pretend I'm not up here, I try counting sheep

The sheep seem to shower, off this office tower

It's 9.8 straight down, I can't stop my knees.

CHORUS:

Bm A E G

I wish I could fly, from this building, from this wall.

Bm A E G

And if I should try, would you catch me, if I fall.

My hands clench the squeegee, a seclar rosary

Hang onto your wallet, hand onto your rings.

I can't look below me, something might throw me.

I curse at the windstorms, that October brings.

I look in the boardroom, a modern Pharaoh's tomb.

I'd gladly swap places, if they care to dive

They line up at the window, peer down into limbo

Frightened of jumping, in case they survive.

G A

And I wish I could step, from this scaffold,

Bm D/F# E G

Onto soft green grass and shopping malls,

G A Bm A D

And bed, and my family, and my pastor and my grandfather

E G

Whose dead.

Look straight in the mirror, watch it come clearer

I look like a painter, behind all the grease.

But painting's creating, and I'm just erasing

A crystal clear canvas, is my masterpiece.

CHORUS x2

If I fall... (repeat)