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"Ghost of You" - My Chemical Romance
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·Tabbed by: Sebastián Arashiro (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
·Email/MSN: playing.the.angel_@hotmail.com / sebastian.arashiro@gmail.com
·Tuning: EADGBe
-From "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" (2004). Track 6.
"The Ghost of You" is the fourth and final single and sixth track from My Chemical Romance's second
studio album,
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. The song deals with the fear of loss.
The song also crossfades into "The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You".
This song is the band's seventh overall single.
The song's title is an allusion to an ad from Watchmen, reading "Oh, how the ghost of you clings".
The ad itself was an allusion to the song, "These Foolish Things". The song's lyrics deal with losing
a loved one.
-Key: B Minor. 4/4. Tempo = 76 (Andante)
[Intro]
Bm | Bm | Em | F#m ||
[Verse]
Bm | Bm |Em
I never______ said I'd lie and wait forever
F#m | Bm
If I died we'd be together now
Em
I can't always just forget her
F#m
But she could try...!
[Chorus]
G
At the end of the world
Em
Or the last thing I see, you are:
Bm B5
Never coming home-Never coming home!
D5
Could I?
A5
Should I?
G
And all the things that you never-ever told me,
Em
And all the smiles that are ever ever-
[Verse]
Bm
Ever...
Em
Get the feeling that you're never
F#m Bm
All alone and I remember now
Em
At the top of my lungs in my arms she dies...
F#m
She dies!
[Chorus]
G5
At the end of the world
E5
Or the last thing I see
You are:
B5 B5
Never coming home-Never coming home
D5
Could I?
A5
Should I?
G5
And all the things that you never ever told me
E5
And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me
B5 B5
Never coming home-Never coming home!
D5
Could I?
A5
Should I?
G5
And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me,
Em
For all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me
[Bridge]
Bm Em
If I fall...
Bm Em
If I fall...
(Down)
B5 G5 D5 A5
Who-oa whoa Ah-Ohhh
B5 G5 D5 A5
Who-oa whoa Ah-Ohhh
B5 G5 D5 A5
Who-oa whoa Ah-Ohhh
B5 G5 D5 A5
Who-oa whoa Ah-Ohhh
[Chorus]
G5
At the end of the world
E5
Or the last thing I see
You are:
B5 B5
Never coming home-Never coming home
A5 A5
Never coming home-Never coming home
G5
And all the things that you never ever told me,
E5
And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt me.
B5 B5
Never coming home-Never coming home!
D5
Could I?
A5
Should I?
G5
And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me,
Em
For all the ghosts that are never gonna...!
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