Intro e|-------3-----|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----0---0---|-----1-----0-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---0-------0-|---2-----0---|---0-------0-|---0-------0-| D|-------------|-3-----------|-------------|-------------| A|-------------|-------------|-3-----------|-3-----------| E|-3-----------|-------3-----|-------------|-------------| verse 1 How hard for the covers to be pulled from their slumbers, but a ghost never gives up its sheet. e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----0-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---0-----0---|---0-----0---|---2-----0---|---0-------0-|---0-------0-| D|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------------------| A|-3-----2-----|-0-----------|-------------|-3-----------|-3-----------| E|-------------|-------3-----|-1-----3-----|---------------------------| Tell me, is it the same for the rattling chains or whatever you wear when you sleep? e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----0-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---0-----0---|---0-----0---|---2-----0---|---0-------0-|---0-------0-| D|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------------------| A|-3-----2-----|-0-----------|-------------|-3-----------|-3-----------| E|-------------|-------3-----|-1-----3-----|---------------------------| Refrain You remember the time that I told you to take off your clothes? You were naked as a window. e|-------1-----|------1-----|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----1---1---|----1---1---|-----1-----1-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---2-------2-|--2-------2-|---0-----0---|---2-------2-|---2-------2-| D|-------------|------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| A|-------------|------------|-3-----2-----|-0-----------|-0-----------| E|-1-----------|-1----------|-------------|-------------|-------------| But I'll take all that nothing over nothing at all. e|-------------|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----1-----0-|-----1-----0-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---0-----0---|---2-----0---|-------------|-------------| D|-------------|-------------|---0-------0-|---0-------0-| A|-3-----------|-------------|-3-----------|-3-----------| E|-------3-----|-1-----3-----|-------------|-------------| verse 2 I'm just a hallway for ceilings and walls, babe and emptiness all the way through. e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----0-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---0-----0---|---0-----0---|---2-----0---|---0-------0-|---0-------0-| D|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------------------| A|-3-----2-----|-0-----------|-------------|-3-----------|-3-----------| E|-------------|-------3-----|-1-----3-----|---------------------------| You know you're asking too much to be held and not touched, but somehow that's just what you do. e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------0-----|-------3-----| B|-----1-----1-|-----1-----1-|-----1-----0-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---0-----0---|---0-----0---|---2-----0---|---0-------0-|---0-------0-| D|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------------------| A|-3-----2-----|-0-----------|-------------|-3-----------|-3-----------| E|-------------|-------3-----|-1-----3-----|---------------------------| Refrain Do you remember the time that I told you to take off your clothes? You were naked as a window. e|-------1-----|------1-----|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----1---1---|----1---1---|-----1-----1-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---2-------2-|--2-------2-|---0-----0---|---2-------2-|---2-------2-| D|-------------|------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| A|-------------|------------|-3-----2-----|-0-----------|-0-----------| E|-1-----------|-1----------|-------------|-------------|-------------| But I'll take all that nothing over nothing at all. e|-------------|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----1-----0-|-----1-----0-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---0-----0---|---2-----0---|-------------|-------------| D|-------------|-------------|---0-------0-|---0-------0-| A|-3-----------|-------------|-3-----------|-3-----------| E|-------3-----|-1-----3-----|-------------|-------------| Yeah I'd take all that nothing over nothing, over nothing at all. e|-------------|-------------|-------0-----|-------0-----| B|-----1-----0-|-----1-----0-|-----1---1---|-----1---1---| G|---0-----0---|---2-----0---|-------------|-------------| D|-------------|-------------|---0-------0-|---0-------0-| A|-3-----------|-------------|-3-----------|-3-----------| E|-------3-----|-1-----3-----|-------------|-------------|
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