------------------------------------------------------------------------- Six Seconds Old – I'm Not Dead/I'm Not A Robot ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Jason McLaughlin Email: jason.r.mclaughlin@gmail.com Tuning: Standard, CAPO 1 Six Seconds Old Verse: C F Am G Chorus: F G F G F Am F G F G F Am G F This is the song you first sang When you were six seconds old When you were wet and It was cold and You were screaming These are desires first expressed As an eaglet in the nest With its neck stretching, stressed Extending upward These are the eyes that you blinked When you caught a glimpse of light Oh it gave you quite a fright To have such vision Out from that night But it was brilliant Outside the womb Life is so cold you grow sickly and old But that's from living And when it's gone away You'll be happy you didn't stay Inside that Inside that Inside that cave These are the voices you first heard Sounding so fully absurd To be unmuffled, every word Could now have meaning This is precaution that you took Swapping a king out for a rook For your defenses, oh they shook To their foundations These are the thinkings that you thought And the reapings that you wrought As you drew your tight lips taught And just held true To what you knew And it was brilliant Outside the womb Life is so cold you grow sickly and old But that's from living And when it's gone away You'll be happy you didn't stay Inside that Inside that Inside that cave This is the verse that catches tight In your tiny throat every night As you sing out for some light In all this darkness This is the song that you wrote Bayonet cold at your throat Soldiers clutching at your coat As their empire fell Out from that night Came this sweet brilliance Outside the womb Life is so cold you grow sickly and old But that's from living And when it's gone away You'll be happy you didn't stay Inside that Inside that Inside that cave This is the song you first sang When you were six seconds old When you were wet and It was cold and You were screaming