The Graveyard near the house - The Airborne Toxic Event
Capo 3
Intro: C G C F
C (x32010@1) GThe (320003@1)other day, when we were walking by the graveyard near the house,
C (x32010@1) FYou (133211@1)asked me if I thought we would ever die.
C (x32010@1) GAnd (320003@1)if life and love both fade so predictably,
C (x32010@1) FWe've (133211@1)made ourselves a kind of predictable life.
C (x32010@1) GAnd (320003@1)so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces,
C (x32010@1) FIn (133211@1)some dark and lonely blood under a bow.
C (x32010@1) GWe (320003@1)looked so silly there, all decomposed, half turned to dust,
C (x32010@1) FIn (133211@1)tattered clothes, but we probably look just as silly now.
C (x32010@1) GBye (320003@1)bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence.
C (x32010@1) FI (133211@1)can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next,
COr (x32010@1)how to be.
C (x32010@1)F (133211@1)Em (022000@1)G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) EmBut (022000@1)you have no idea about me, do you?
C (x32010@1) GAnd (320003@1)it left me to wonder if people will ever know each other
C (x32010@1) FBy (133211@1)just stumbling around like strangers in the dark.
C (x32010@1)
'Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me,
GI (320003@1)must seem strange to you.
C (x32010@1) FWe're (133211@1)like two actors playing our parts.
C (x32010@1)Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did.
GHere's (320003@1)the part where I get so mad,
C (x32010@1) FI (133211@1)tell you I can't forget the past.
C (x32010@1)
You get so quiet now, and you seem, somehow,
GLike (320003@1)a lost and lonely child.
C (x32010@1) FAnd (133211@1)you just hope that the moment won't last.
C (x32010@1) GBye (320003@1)bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence.
C (x32010@1) FI (133211@1)can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next,
COr (x32010@1)how to be.
C (x32010@1)F (133211@1)Em (022000@1)G (320003@1) CBut (x32010@1)you have no idea about me.
C (x32010@1)F (133211@1)Em (022000@1)G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) EmYou (022000@1)have no idea about me, do you?
C (x32010@1) EmSo (022000@1)there's always a way around.
C (x32010@1) EmThere's (022000@1)something tying our feet to the ground,
FA (133211@1)moment passed, we hate how it sounds.
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CAnd (x32010@1)it seems a little less profound,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CLike (x32010@1)we're all going the same way down.
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CYeah (x32010@1)we're all going the same way down,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CI'm (x32010@1)just trying to write it all down.
C (x32010@1) G'Cause (320003@1)I write songs, and you write letters,
C (x32010@1) GWe (320003@1)are tied like two, in tethers.
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) GAnd (320003@1)we talk and read, and laugh and sleep, at night in bed, together.
C (x32010@1) GAnd (320003@1)you wake in tears sometimes,
C (x32010@1) GI (320003@1)can see the thoughts flash across your eyes.
C (x32010@1) GThey (320003@1)say "Darling, will you be kind?
C (x32010@1) G (320003@1) FWill (133211@1)you be a good man, and stay behind if I get old?"
Am (x02210@1) GAnd (320003@1)then the letters all pass through my head,
Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CWith (x32010@1)the words that I was told,
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CAbout (x32010@1)the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold.
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CI (x32010@1)can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will.
C (x32010@1)F (133211@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CAnd (x32010@1)I'll defy everyone and love you still,
C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CI (x32010@1)will carry you with me up every hill.
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CAnd (x32010@1)if you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky,
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CI'll (x32010@1)fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie.
C (x32010@1) GIt (320003@1)may be better to move on, and to let life just carry on,
CAnd (x32010@1)I may be wrong.
FBut (133211@1)still, I'll try.
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) C'Cause (x32010@1)it's better to love whether you win or lose or die,
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CYeah, (x32010@1)It's better to love whether you win or lose or die.
Am (x02210@1) G (320003@1) Em (022000@1) G (320003@1) CIt's (x32010@1)better to love, and I will love you 'til I die.
It's a beautiful song, hope you like the chords!
