If We Were Vampires Chords
If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Em, Bm, C, G, D, B and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Tune guitar on full step down. Use the following chord shapes.
Em Bm C
It's not the long, flowing dress that you're in
Em Bm C
Or the light coming off of your skin
C G
The fragile heart you protected for so long
C G D
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong
Em Bm C
It's not your hands searching slow in the dark
Em Bm C
Or your nails leaving love's watermark
C G
It's not the way you talk me off the roof
C G D
Your questions like directions to the truth
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G D
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C G
Maybe we'll get forty years together
D C
But one day I'll be gone
C G D
Or one day you'll be gone
verse 2
Em Bm C
If we were vampires and death was a joke
Em B C
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
C Am Em
Laugh at all the lovers and their plans
C Am G
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand
Em Bm C
Maybe time running out is a gift
Em Bm C
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift
C G
And give you every second I can find
C G D
And hope it isn't me who's left behind
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G D
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C G
Maybe we'll get forty years together
D C
But one day I'll be gone
C G D
Or one day you'll be gone
C G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
C G D
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
C G
Maybe we'll get forty years together
D C
But one day I'll be gone
C G D
Or one day you'll be gone