SONG: (A) Letter to Georgia
BAND: The Airborne Toxic Event
Q/C/C: email me: schm2213@umn.edu



Probably the prettiest song by this band to date. Absolutely heartwrenching.

NOTE: this is based on one particular live version. It is "Live at Birmingham Academy," 
in the UK on the 7th of November 2009. It was played during a set that is available for 
download in its entirety (like an hour and a half long track) on the Airborne website. 
I have seen this song performed live, and it was played slightly differently, and most 
youtube clips I have seen all play it differently as well. Most versions I've seen he uses
a capo (sometimes 3, sometimes 4...); sometimes he plays D G A, sometimes G C D. I guess we
won't know the official version until the studio version comes out, but this version, the one
I've downloaded from their website, is the prettiest version I've heard, so I'd suggest everyone
grab a copy of it. 

If you have a different version somehow and you really like THAT version and it sounds slightly
different, then try messing around with a capo, or if worst comes to worst replace the chords 
below with the following: D -> G, G -> C, A -> D, and move the capo around again. 

LAST NOTE: The way I hear it (for this version; no capo, standard tuning), he (Mikel) 
avoids the top e string a lot, emphasizing instead the unchanging note D on the B string 
(3rd fret), like the tremolo. Sometimes he does play the e string, and sometimes, instead of
the D chord he plays Bm. It's too hard to tell, and at this point it's too irregular, to put 
the Bm's in this tab, so I'm just going to put D's in and if you want to throw in the occasional 
Bm go for it. 




Song starts off with Anna's (viola) tremolo on note D (8th fret, high e-string). Eventually, when 
Steven (guitar) begins mimicking, he tremolo's in a similar pattern. It's pretty much (top e 
string): 8 8 8 10 (in same time as chords below, trem each). Sometimes they go up to 12, and one 
or both of them might add a second note via the B string.



Intro: (after lead-in trem from Anna)
D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A  x4

DHow (xx0232@1)can I explain to you 
GThe (320003@1)picture of this avenue?
DThe (xx0232@1)rain falls on the street outside
AMy (x02220@1)window on this Thursday afternoon
DI (xx0232@1)sit alone inside 
GThese (320003@1)sinful walls I've lived inside
DSo (xx0232@1)many lies I've lived and died
ANone (x02220@1)so much as the one I've lived with you.
D (xx0232@1)                  GI (320003@1)see you on the highway 
(G)
A thousand miles away
DRain (xx0232@1)falls through your hair and cheeks
ATears (x02220@1)and mascara streaks
DYour (xx0232@1)face reflected in the glass
GLines (320003@1)in the pavement go past 
DJust (xx0232@1)like the lines around your eyes
AThat (x02220@1)held the weight of all these sad goodbyes


Interlude:
D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A    x 4
(I think the last time is Bm G D A...)

DEverybody (xx0232@1)that I know 
GTell (320003@1)me just to let it go
DYou (xx0232@1)run from everything, they say
AHurt (x02220@1)the ones you love blindly
DBut (xx0232@1)here I sit and picture you 
GWith (320003@1)fingers worn, your shirt torn through
DYour (xx0232@1)heart's so big and broke in two
AYour (x02220@1)mind drifting through all you knew
DAfraid (xx0232@1)to love, afraid to lose
GAfraid (320003@1)to start, afraid to choose
DAfraid (xx0232@1)to live, afraid to die
AAfraid (x02220@1)to let you days slip by
DAfraid (xx0232@1)you'll change or stay the same
GAfraid (320003@1)we'll lose ourselves again
D (xx0232@1)                      AAfraid (x02220@1)of the truth that love 

                        DCould (xx0232@1)cause you so much pain

(D) G D

  AI (x02220@1)know
           DI (xx0232@1)felt it, too
   G (320003@1)     DI (xx0232@1)know, I know
A (x02220@1)     Darlin, I wish it wasn't true.


(end on D)