Let's Get This Over With Chords
Let's Get This Over With by They Might Be Giants is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, Em/G, A, Bbdim, B, G and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verse
D Em/G D
The drumbeat never changes tempo
D Em/G
It's steady like a rock
D Em/G D Em/G
And like a rock it crushes you as it gets louder
D Em/G D Em/G
The drum gets louder and louder
D Em/G D Em/G
And you know there is no parking on the dance floor
A Bbdim B G D G
And when you wake up you can feel your hair grow
A Bbdim B G D A
Crawl out of your cave and you can watch your shadow
Em G B A D
Creep across the ground until the day is done
Em G B A D
All the while the planet circles 'round the sun
Em G D G D G Em
Everybody knows how this goes so let's get over it
G B A D
And let's get this over with
Verse
D Em/G D Em/G
Even when you're out of work you still have a job to do
D Em/G D
Even when you don't know what it is
D Em/G
Your job knows what it is
D Em/G D Em/G
What it is is it's coming to get you
D Em/G D Em/G
I'm talking to myself even when I'm saying "you"
A Bbdim B G D G
And when you wake up you can feel your hair grow
A Bbdim B G D A
Crawl out of your cave and you can watch your shadow
Em G B A D
Creep across the ground until the day is done
Em G B A D
All the while the planet circles 'round the sun
Em G D G D G Em
Everybody knows how this goes so let's get over it
G B A D
And let's get this over with
Bridge
G D
After all the spelling mistakes
G D
After all the groping in the dark
Em B
Can this page of strange gibberish
Em A
Get a final punctuation mark?
Verse
D Em/G D Em/G
You're still hanging around the clambake
D Em/G D Em/G
After every clam has been baked
D Em/G
No applause
D Em/G
Awkward pause
D Em/G D Em/G
Hand extended waiting for a shake
A Bbdim B G D G
And when you wake up you can feel your hair grow
A Bbdim B G D A
Crawl out of your cave and you can watch your shadow
Em G B A D
Creep across the ground until the day is done
Em G B A D
All the while the planet circles 'round the sun
Em G D G D G Em
Everybody knows how this goes so let's get over it
G B A D
And let's get this over with
Outro
Em G B A D
Hurry up and let's get this over with
Em G B A D
You don't have to go home but you can't stay here
Em G D G D G Em
Everybody knows how this goes so let's get over it
G B A D
And let's get this over with