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Why aren't you dead?

Bon Jovi

MetalAdvanced for beginners13 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Em
A7×
BDiagram coming soon
A×
D××
GmDiagram coming soon
C×
D#Diagram coming soon
E
F
F#Diagram coming soon
G
C7×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Em    A7  2x 
 
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(Em  A7) 
I got the letter you left under my door 
 
Knocked me on my ass to the floor 
 
Never knew two words could take such a bite 
 
It said, ?Dear Jon, Hello. Goodbye.? 
 
  
(Em  A7) 
I saw your car parked outside Motel Cascade 
 
Saw two shadows go to town on the shade 
 
I can?t believe my own lyin? eyes, oh my 
 
It better be your girlfriend I saw going down some other guy 
 
 
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B                           A 
You told me you loved me, ?til death do us part 
B                                          D 
So tell me there?s a tombstone where there used to be a heart 
 
  
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             Em  
You said you couldn?t live without me 
   A 
So why aren?t you dead? 
           Em                       A 
Instead of six feet under you?re in someone else?s bed 
        Em                           B 
There?s just one thing that I can?t get through my head 
             A 
You said you couldn?t live without me so why aren?t you dead? 
 
(Em A7)  
 
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(Em A7)  
I cut your face out of our old photographs 
 
And all the junk you left behind?s in the trash 
 
Well, I hoped you were a goner for sure 
 
Well, there?s been a resurrection, yeah, a miracle cure 
 
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B               A 
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust 
       B                          D 
If you can?t trust the livin? baby who can you trust? 
 
  
 
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             Em  
You said you couldn?t live without me 
   A 
So why aren?t you dead? 
           Em                       A 
Instead of six feet under you?re in someone else?s bed 
        Em                           B 
There?s just one thing that I can?t get through my head 
             A 
You said you couldn?t live without me so why aren?t you dead? 
 
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(Em  A7) 
 
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B               A 
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust 
       B                             D 
If you can?t trust the livin? baby who can you trust? 
 
 
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            Gm           
You said you couldn?t live without me 
   C 
So why aren?t you dead? 
           Gm                         C 
Instead of six feet under you?re in someone else?s bed 
        Gm                    D  
There?s just one thing that I can?t get through my head 
              C 
You said you couldn?t live without me baby, so why aren?t you dead? 
 
             Gm                               C 
You said you couldn?t live with out me, what a surprise! 
              Gm                          C 
Instead of laying you out I?m laying down on the line 
     Gm                              D                       
You spend my hard-earned money, you left me in the red 
             C                   (D D# E F F# G)                               
You said you couldn?t live without me?. so why aren?t you dead? 
(Gm  C7) 
Why aren?t you dead? 
 
Why aren?t you dead? 
 
                         
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Contribuição: Felipe Fontoura Melachawças([email protected]) 
 
          
 

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Chord set

Em · A7 · B · A · D · Gm · C · D# · E · F · F# · G · C7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.