Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers Chords & Tabs

Hawthorne Heights
Ohio is for lovers
standard tunning


(The Dm is played without any fingers on the high e string)

!F (lifting up 3rd finger as 8th notes)

!C- on verses (lift up 1st finger then put it down while lifting up 2d & 3rd)
this works as a transition as you run into Em

* is a quick pick pattern while playing the chord beside * 
strings a g b g  are picked(and then strum d g b e)


Dm        
Hey there,
!C           Em         F                      *F
I know it's hard to feel like I don't care at all.
Dm                !C
Where you are and how you feel.
Em                                F
With these lights off as these wheels
              *F
keep rolling on and on. (and on and on and on...)
Dm                   !C
Slow things down or speed them up.
Em            F            *F
Not enough or way too much. (and on and on and on...)
Dm           C   Em  F 
How are you when I'm gone?

!F 


[Chorus:]
Dm           !C            Em      !F
And I can't make it on my own.

(And I can't make it on my own.)
Dm         !C           Em         !F
Because my heart is in Ohio.
Dm          !C                 Em         !F
So cut my wrists and black my eyes.
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(Cut my wrists and black my eyes)
Dm        !C             Em         *F
So I can fall asleep tonight, or die.
Am          F    C
Because you kill me.
Em                   Am
You know you do, you kill me well.
Em                  Am
You like it too, and I can tell.
Em             Am   *Am         F
You never stop until my final breath is gone.

(on this next verse have very fast down strokes on d g and b strings while playing the chords given)

F              C
Spare me just three last words.
F               C
"I love you" is all she heard.
F          (goes into regular strumming)
I'll wait for you, 
    C       F      Am
but I can't wait forever.

[x2]


[Chorus:]

Em                   Am
You know you do, you kill me well.
Em                   Am
You like it too, and I can tell.
Em              Am   *Am        F
You never stop until my final breath is gone.



(YOU...KILL...ME...WELL)

(softly)
C                              Em
So cut my wrists and black my eyes.
         Am
My final breath is gone 
                        F   *F     !F
So I can fall asleep tonight



[Chorus:]
{repeating last part of chorus twice}


ALright... this is the way I like to play it, make it unique. peace.