• Song:

    All I Ever Wanted

  • Artist:

    The Airborne Toxic Event

  • Album:

    All At Once

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If there is interest, I could go through and do a full tab of the song with all the
string and guitar parts, but this tab only has the few main lines.

Capo 5 on the album
Capo 2 for the Walt Disney concert



Intro riff

e|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D|----0---0----0---0-|---4---4------4---|------------------|------------------|
A|--0---0--------0---|-2---2------2---2-|---0---0----0---0-|---4---0----0---0-|
E|-------------------|------------------|-2---2--------2---|-2---2--------2---|

I find the above easier, but the band actually plays it like so:

e|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A|----5---5----5---5-|---9---9------9---|---0---0----0---0-|---4---0----0---0-|
E|--5---5--------5---|-7---7------7---7-|-2---2--------2---|-2---2--------2---|



Melody Riff 1

e|----5-----7-----5--|----7-----5-----|-----5-----5----|--5-----5-----5---|
B|--7-----7-----7----|--7-----7-----7-|-8-----7-----8--|----7-----8-------|
G|-------------------|----------------|----------------|------------------|
D|-------------------|----------------|----------------|------------------|
A|-------------------|----------------|----------------|------------------|
E|-------------------|----------------|----------------|------------------|



Verse Riff

e|----5---5---5---5--|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
B|--7---7---7---7----|----7---7---7---7--|-------------------|-------------------|
G|-------------------|--7---7---7---7----|----7---7---7---7--|----7---7---7---7--|
D|-------------------|-------------------|--7---7---7---7----|--7---7---7---7----|
A|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|



Intro
D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1) F#m (244222@1)    x3

D (xx0232@1)                  Bm (x24432@1)                       F#mI (244222@1)can only say these things to you while you're sleeping.
               D (xx0232@1)                     Bm (x24432@1)                  F#mI (244222@1)hear the the hum from the wires, the sounds of the morning creeping.
  D (xx0232@1)           Bm (x24432@1)            F#mI (244222@1)lie awake and pretend you can hear me.

D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1) F#m (244222@1)    x2

D (xx0232@1)                                  Bm (x24432@1)              F#mYou (244222@1)tell that you're scared, that you're turning into your mother,
  D (xx0232@1)         Bm (x24432@1)         F#mI (244222@1)feel myself turn into my father.
         D (xx0232@1)                    Bm (x24432@1)                        F#mWe (244222@1)could lie to each other like they do and say we're still happy
     D (xx0232@1)                        Bm (x24432@1)                 F#mIt's (244222@1)easy when you're young and you still want it so badly.

Bm (x24432@1)    A (x02220@1)      GAnd (320003@1)I feel my heart pounding
      Bm (x24432@1)  A (x02220@1)     GAnd (320003@1)I think I might scream

D (xx0232@1)                             AI (x02220@1)can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
      Bm (x24432@1)                        GI (320003@1)can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear
  D (xx0232@1)                         A (x02220@1)               BmI (x24432@1)shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.

D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1) F#m (244222@1)    x2

D (xx0232@1)                      Bm (x24432@1)                  F#mAt (244222@1)night you whisper like a ghost and you look so shaken
          D (xx0232@1)                     Bm (x24432@1)                   F#mYou're (244222@1)so quiet and small and you tell me you want to be taken.
       D (xx0232@1)                       Bm (x24432@1)                   F#mI (244222@1)just never think of you as the kind of girl who would say that.
    D (xx0232@1)                     Bm (x24432@1)                 F#mYou (244222@1)suddenly seem like some faceless thing in my grasp.

Bm (x24432@1)    A (x02220@1)              GWith (320003@1)your eyes so wide, your face aglow
        Bm (x24432@1)    A (x02220@1)             GIts (320003@1)the face of someone I don't know.

D (xx0232@1)                             AI (x02220@1)can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
      Bm (x24432@1)                        GI (320003@1)can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear
  D (xx0232@1)                         A (x02220@1)               BmI (x24432@1)shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.

D (xx0232@1) Bm (x24432@1) F#m (244222@1)    x7

Bm (x24432@1)                         A (x02220@1)                 GAnd (320003@1)all I could think is that it must be a kind of rebellion.
   Bm (x24432@1)                A (x02220@1)          GTo (320003@1)arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

D (xx0232@1)                             AI (x02220@1)can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
            Bm (x24432@1)                               GThrough (320003@1)the din of your breathing while you're sleeping here.
    D (xx0232@1)                    A (x02220@1)              BmYou (x24432@1)wake and ask me if I'm going to be here forever, forever, forever.

D (xx0232@1)                      AYour (x02220@1)face so twisted and your eyes alight
          Bm (x24432@1)                              GI (320003@1)want to tell you I can change it when you cry at night
    D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1)BmBut (x24432@1)I'd be lying.
D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1)BmLove (x24432@1)is defying.

End on D
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