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)
D5 G5 D5 A5  x4

D5
How can I explain to you 
G5
The picture of this avenue?
D5
The rain falls on the street outside
A5
My window on this Thursday afternoon
D5
I sit alone inside 
G5
These sinful walls I've lived inside
D5
So many lies I?ve lived and died
A5
None so much as the one I?ve lived with you.
D5                    G5
I see you on the highway 
( G5 )
A thousand miles away
D5
Rain falls through your hair and cheeks
A5
Tears and mascara streaks
D5
Your face reflected in the glass
G5
Lines in the pavement go past 
D5
Just like the lines around your eyes
A5
That held the weight of all these sad goodbyes


Interlude:
D5 G5 D5 A5    x 4
(I think the last time is Bm G D A...)

D5
Everybody that I know 
G5
Tell me just to let it go
D5
You run from everything, they say
A5
Hurt the ones you love blindly
D5
But here I sit and picture you 
G5
With fingers worn, your shirt torn through
D5
Your heart's so big and broke in two
A5
Your mind drifting through all you knew
D5
Afraid to love, afraid to lose
G5
Afraid to start, afraid to choose
D5
Afraid to live, afraid to die
A5
Afraid to let you days slip by
D5
Afraid you?ll change or stay the same
G5
Afraid we?ll lose ourselves again
D5                        A5
Afraid of the truth that love 

                        D5
Could cause you so much pain

( D5 ) G5 D5

  A5
I know
           D5
I felt it, too
   G5       D5
I know, I know
A5
      Darlin, I wish it wasn't true.


(end on D5 )