GET ME AWAY FROM HERE I'M DYING
By Belle & Sebastian

From the album 'If You're Feeling Sinister'
Transcribed by Ben Ufton
Submitted by Thelonius

Intro: F# 
 
Verse 1:
F#          C#                 Ebm 
Oh! Get me away from here I'm dying
          Bbm            B
Play me a song to set me free
       F#                    B  
Nobody writes them like they used to 
      C#             F#                    
So it may as well be me
 
           C#            Ebm
Here on my own now after hours
           Bbm          B
Here on my own now on a bus
            F# 
Think of it this way
          G#        B                C#   
You could either be successful or be us
 
Chorus:
         B                   C#
With our winning smiles, and us
	 B                C#
With our catchy tunes and words
          B
Now we're photogenic
    Ebm  Bbm              B	  F#               B
You know we don't stand a chance (we don't stand a chance)
 
B - F#  a few times
 
F#             C#                 Ebm 
Oh I'll settle down with some old story
        Bbm                 B
About a boy who's just like me
              F#               B              C#
Thought there was love in everything and everyone-
          F#                    
You're so naive!
 
            C#           Ebm
They always tell a sorry story
            Bbm           B
They always get it in the end
             F# 
Still it was worth it
     G#               B             C#   
as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
 
Chorus:
       B                 C#
With a winning smile the boy
	B        C#
With naievety succeeds
       B			   Ebm
At the final moment, I cried—-
Bbm              B	  F#               B
I always cry at endings 
 
B - F# again a few times

F#              C#              Ebm 
Oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all,
     Bbm                 B
From where I'm sit-ting, rain
         F#                B              
Washing against the lonely tenement
        C#            F#                    
Has set my mind to wander
 
         C#            Ebm
Into the windows of my lovers
           Bbm           B
They never know unless I write
            F# 
"This is no declaration,
       G#          B                C#   
I just thought I'd let you know goodbye"
 
Chorus:
         B           C#
Said the hero in the story
       B             C#
"It is mightier than swords
        B
I could kill you sure 
    Ebm            Bbm               B	   
But I could only - make you cry with these words" 

F#             B
Cry with these words
F#             B
Cry with these words
F#             B
Cry with these words
F#           B
Ooh! Get me away I'm dying
F#           B
     Get me away I'm dying
F#           B
     Get me away I'm dying
F#           B
     Get me away I'm dying
F#           B
     Oooh,      I'm dying
F#           B
     Oooh,      I'm dying
F#           B
     Oooh,      I'm dying
F#           B
     Oooh,      I'm dying
  
B - F# to end 
 

Belle & Sebastian fans would be well advised to browse Paul
Mitchell's appealing site 'Sinister' at
www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~mitchell/sinister/