Jars of Clay is a popular Christian alternative rock group formed while the band members attended Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois, United States in 1992. The group's sound has varied over the years as the band has experimented with pop, folk, rock, trip-hop, gospel, and hymnsong. Their self-titled album featured layered acoustic guitars over programmed trip-hop beats. The song "Flood" was the band's biggest crossover hit, and it hit #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as #12 on the Modern Rock chart.
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Famous Last Words By Jars of Clay (c) 1999 Bridge Building Music, Inc. / Pogostick Music / BMI Tabbed by Josh Smith [email protected]
Famous Last Words
Intro: Bm7F#mDE/G#Bm7F#mD
Vs 1:
Bm7F#mDE/G# You say you heard every word, but I watched you turn away Bm7F#mD Your eyes grew colder than winter Bm7F#mDE/G# "Love is so intrusive," I thought I heard you say Bm7F#mD and laugh so unconvincingly
Chorus 1: AE/G# (Famous last words) Famous last words, G "I'm not ready yet" D "I won't be gone a minute"
Vs 2:
Bm7F#mDE/G# Narrow is the road and too high a price to pay Bm7F#mD when loneliness is such a sanctuary. Bm7F#mDE/G# Empty are the musings and wasted are the days Bm7F#mD when you say you were only waiting
Chorus 2: AE/G# (Famous last words) And famous last words, G "I'm not ready yet" DA "I won't be gone a minute" and I won't forget E/G# Famous last words GDC#mF# If tomorrow never comes, will I ever know that I was in love? BmAE/G# I was in love BmAG In love
Bridge:
DA/C#CGBbDA/C#CEmAEmA
F#mDE
You say you heard every word, I watched you turn away Bm7F#mD You said you were only waiting
Chorus 3: AE/G# (Famous last words) And famous last words, G "I'm not ready yet" DA "I won't be gone a minute" but I won't forget E/G# Famous last words GDAE/G# If tomorrow never comes, will I ever know that I was in love? GD that I was in love (chorus 1)