Song Title:         Rest In Peace
Music and Lyrics:   Joss Whedon
Source : TV Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Episode Title:      Once More With Feeling (AKA Buffy the Musical)
Season:             6, Episode: 7
Original Airdate:   November 6, 2001
Written,Directed by:Joss Whedon
Transcribed by: Jeff Burke the Bassoon
Player<jeffbsn-nospam@bdkw.yi.org>
Thanks To: Jörg Plate  at  http://www.psyche.kn-bremen.de for the
             transcription script from which I gleaned the lyrics.

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Rest In Peace
Joss Whedon

Tempo : 200 bpm
Key : E (ish )


SPIKE:
[Verse1]
4/4 |E |E        |Bm   |Bm
   I died so many years ago.
|D
You can make me
|A   |C           |G
feel like it isn't so.
 | Bm              |C
And why you come to be with me,
 |D              |Em    |Em  |A  |A
I think I finally know.


[Verse2]
       |E      |E                 |Bm  |Bm
You're scared, ashamed of what you feel.
    |D                 |A
And you can't tell the ones you love,
    |C                 |G
You know they couldn't deal.
|Bm          |C
Whisper in a dead man's ear,
   |D              |Em  |Em  |A  |A
It doesn't make it real.


[Verse3]
      |E         |E           |Bm  |Bm
That's great but I don't wanna play,
       |D             |A
'Cause being with you touches me,
|C              |G
More than I can say.
    |Bm            |C
And since I'm only dead to you,
    |D           |E   |E
I'm sayin' stay away.

    |D     G|   F#  E  |E  |E
And let me rest in peace.


[Chorus]
      |F#      A| A
Let me rest in peace,
       |E       |E
let me get some sleep.
       |F#              |A
Let me take my love and bury it
     |E           |D
In a hole six-foot deep.
      |F#        |A
I can lay my body down
            |C#m           |G6  |G6
But I can't find my sweet release.

    |D     G|  F#  E |E  |E
So let me rest in peace.


[Verse4]
   |E  |E                  |Bm    |Bm
You know you got a willing slave
    |D              |A
And you just love to play the thought
     |C             |G
That you might misbehave.
  |Bm             |C
Until you do, I'm tellin' you,
     |D          |Em  |Em
Stop visiting my grave

    |D     G|  F#  E |E  |E
And let me rest in peace.


[Bridge]
  |B     |D       |C#  |C#
I know    I should go
     |Db/Ab  Ab| Ab     C|C      Db| Db
But I follow you like a man possessed.
          |Db/Ab   Ab| Ab C|C      Db| Db
There's a traitor here  beneath my breast
      |Db/Ab    Ab| Ab            C|C  Db| Db
And it hurts me more than you've ever  guessed.
     |Db/Ab      Ab| Ab           C| C    Db| Db
If my heart could beat, it would break my chest.

    |Db    Dbm| Dbm
But I can see
       |Ab     |Ab
you're unimpressed
   |E      |E
So leave me be and


[Chorus]
      |F#      A| A
let me rest in peace,
       |E       |E
Let me get some sleep.
       |F#              |A
Let me take my love and bury it
     |E           |D
In a hole six-foot deep.
      |F#        |A
I can lay my body down
            |C#m           |G  |G
But I can't find my sweet release.

|D     G|  F#  E |E
Let me rest in peace.

|E              |D     G|  F#  E |E  |E ||
   Why won't you let me rest in peace?


<So... you're not staying, then?>



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