Ohio Is For Lovers

Words & Music:

Eron Bucciarelli, Casey Calvert, Micah Carli,

Matt Ridenour & J.T. Woodruff (Hawthorne Heights)

 

This is fully transcribed in Guitar World.  Yes, it is in G#m.

 

INTRO: [arpeggiated]

G#m7    F#sus4 [2x]  Esus2  F#sus4 [2x]

 

G#5       F#5  G#5

Hey there--------,

G#5    F#5 E5              F#5 E5                         F#5

I know it's--- hard to feel------ like I don't care at all.

G#5               F#5          G#5            F#5

Where you are and how you feel with these lights off as these wheels

E5   F#5      E5                     F#5

Keep rolling on and on (and on and on and on...)

G#m7                F#sus4       G#m7

Slow things down or speed them up.

G#m7          F#sus4       Esus2    F#sus4     Esus2             F#sus4

Not enough or way too much.         How are you---- when I'm gone?

                     [and on and on and on...]

 

PRE-CHORUS:

G#5                       E5                            F#5

And I can't make it on my own.  [And I can't make it on my own.]

G#5                         E5

Because my heart is in Ohio.

G#5                         F#5  E5                           F#5 G#5

So, cut my wrists and black my-- eyes.[Cut my wrists and black my eyes.]

G#5                     F#5  E5           F#5

So, I can fall asleep tonight----, or die.

 

CHORUS:

E5          F#5   G#m

Because you kill me; you know you do.

E5    F#5         E5    F#5

You kill me well; you like it, too.

           E5                      E5 F#5 E5                  E5 F#5

And I can tell you'll never stop until------- my final breath is gone.

 

Spare me just three last words.  "I love you," is all she heard.

I'll wait for you, but I can't wait forever.  [both lines 2x]


 

PRE-CHORUS:

 

CHORUS:  [2x]

 

BRIDGE:  [2x]

G#m7                  F#sus4      G#m7  F#sus4       Esus2

So, cut my wrists and black my eyes------.  My final breath is gone.

        [You-------------------------kill----------------------

Esus2                F#sus4   Esus2        F#sus4

So, I can fall asleep tonight.

------me----------------------------well.]

 

CHORUS:  [3x and out]

G#m              E5   F#5

You know you do; you kill me, well.

    [You--------------------------

G#m              E5   F#5

You like it, too, and I can tell

----kill-------------------------

E5                     E5  F#5  E5                 E5  F#5

You'll never stop until----------- my final breath is gone.

-------me-----------------------------well]





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