The Airborne Toxic Event

All At Once

Such Hot Blood

The Airborne Toxic Event is an alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, United States in 2006. The band consists of Mikel Jollett (vocals, guitar), Steven Chen (guitar, keyboards), Anna Bulbrook (viola, keyboards), Noah Harmon (bass) and Daren Taylor (drums). The band is best known for their single &quot;Sometime Around Midnight&quot;, which was a hit in the UK as well on American alternative radio in 2008 and 2009.  

Intro     G6 x2 Em C G6 

G6 
And it starts sometime around midnight                   
       Em                            C                    G6 
Or at least that's when you lose yourself for a minute or two
G6 
As you stand under the bar lights
           Em                             C                     G6 
While the band plays some song, about forgetting yourself for a while
          Em                         C              G6 
And the piano's this melancholy soundtrack for her smile
      Em            Pause!!!          C                            
That white dress she's wearing, you haven't seen her for a while

G6 
But you know, that she's watching
        Em                             C                       G6 
She's laughing, she's turning. She's holding her tonic like a cross
     Em                               C                        G6 
The room's suddenly spinning, as she walks up and asks how you are
            Em                         C                         G6 
So you can smell her perfume, you can see her lying naked in your arms

G6 
And so there's a change in your emotions
               Em                      C                      G6 
When all these memories come rushing, like feral waves to your mind
          Em                      C                     G6 
Of curl of your bodies, like two perfect circles entwined
             Em                         C                      G6 
So you feel hopeless and homeless, and lost in the haze of the wine


G6 
Then she leaves with some one you don't know
        Em                           C                       G6 
But she makes sure you saw her, she looks right at you and bolts
        Em                             C                        G6 
As she walks out the door, your blood boiling, your stomach in ropes
       Em               Pause!!!               C           
Oh and when your friends say, "what is it you look like you've seen a ghost"

Bridge  (strong strumming) G6 .... C D Em .... C D G6 


G6 
Then you walk under the streetlights                 
           Em                         C                     G6 
And you're too drunk to notice, that everyone is staring at you
                Em                          C                      G6 
You just don't care what you look like, the world is falling around you

Em 
you just have to see her
C 
you just have to see her
Em 
you just have to see her
C 
you just have to see her
Em 
you just have to see her

you know that she'll break you in two....  G6  Em  C

Sometime Around Midnight

# Transposed version from somewhere on the internet. Did the chord transpositions by hand, so I hope they turned out OK.

B
Well, I lost my innocence today
                         E
I could feel her in my bones
E
My bones, my bones, my bones
    B
My blood, my blood, my blood, my blood


B
and I woke up, tired, scared and sad
                             E
Soaked, drained, I felt so bad

Today, today, today
           B
What you still, you still, you still, you still
           E
Won't you say, you say, you say, you say
           B
What you feel, you feel, you feel, you feel
          G#m                           C#m
Which is nothing but hollow feelings, yeah
   E                   B
I can, done, I just don't care


(chords same as previous verse)
and forget happiness, I'm fine
I'll forget everything in time
I swear I didn't know,
You know me, how I can't let go
and we're not guts, we're just hacks
all that life amongst the cracks
The scars, the siege that breaks 
The ugliest scene, the worst mistakes 
and everywhere I see her face
Such a beautiful child, such an awful waste
and there's no innocence like hers
Just emptiness and nerves

          F#                           G#m
and this light from the window of my car
              E             B
She'll never see it, oh my god
              F#                       G#m
I was so surprised, it blew up in my face
                  E          B  F#  E
Lord, I lost my nerve, oh my go-o-od...
       B    F#    E
Oh my god, oh my... god


B, E, Eadd9, E, B


B                      E  Eadd9 E   B
and I tear, I tear, so haa-aaa-aaa-ard...
and I tear, I tear, so haa-aaa-aaa-ard...


      G#m                      C#m
and I beg and scream, "I was wrong"
E                          B
  It's over, well, she's gone

Innocence

I  II  III IV
A -8---7---5---3--
E -8---7---5---3--
C -8---7---5---3--
G -5---7---5---0--

# The order should be: 

I II III IV (x3)
III I

# And repeat that. If anyone can give chord names, I'll change it to that. Thanks!

Missy

Intro: C G C F

C                                       G
The other day, when we were walking by the graveyard near the house,
             C                           F
You asked me if I thought we would ever die.
         C                      G
And if life and love both fade so predictably,
           C                                F
We've made ourselves a kind of predictable life.

            C                             G
And so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces,
          C                            F
In some dark and lonely blood under a bow.
               C                                 G
We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half turned to dust,
                              C                          F
In tattered clothes, but we probably look just as silly now.

         C                              G
Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence.
           C                                  F
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next,
           C
Or how to be.
             C  F  Em  G    C     Em
But you have no idea about me, do you?

        C                            G
And it left me to wonder if people will ever know each other
           C                                     F
By just stumbling around like strangers in the dark.
           C                            
'Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me,
   G
I must seem strange to you.
                 C                  F
We're like two actors playing our parts.

            C 
Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did. 
        G
Here's the part where I get so mad,
           C                    F
I tell you I can't forget the past.
            C                          
You get so quiet now, and you seem, somehow,
        G
Like a lost and lonely child.
              C                          F
And you just hope that the moment won't last.

         C                             G
Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence.
           C                                  F
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next,
           C
Or how to be.
             C  F  Em  G    C
But you have no idea about me.
         C  F  Em  G    C      Em
You have no idea about me, do you?

              C            Em
So there's always a way around.
           C                              Em
There's something tying our feet to the ground,
                                   F
A moment passed, we hate how it sounds.

         C        F    Em   G    C
And it seems a little less profound,
            C    F        Em   G   C
Like we're all going the same way down.
            C    F        Em   G    C
Yeah we're all going the same way down,
           C    F   Em      G     C
I'm just trying to write it all down.

                C                     G
'Cause I write songs, and you write letters,
         C                   G
We are tied like two, in tethers.
        C                         G                C          G
And we talk and read, and laugh and sleep, at night in bed, together.
          C                G
And you wake in tears sometimes,
                  C                       G
I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes.
             C                   G
They say "Darling, will you be kind?
                     C             G              F
Will you be a good man, and stay behind if I get old?"
               
                Am                         G
And then the letters all pass through my head,
          Em        G       C
With the words that I was told,
            Am                  G               Em    G        C
About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold.
        Am                  G             Em      G     C
I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will.

           C  F    Em        G        C
And I'll defy everyone and love you still,
          C   F       Em      G     C
I will carry you with me up every hill.
           Am            G                    Em       G      C
And if you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky,
            Am                G         Em       G        C
I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie.

             C                           G
It may be better to move on, and to let life just carry on,
               C
And I may be wrong.
                 F
But still, I'll try.

              Am        G               Em     G       C
'Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die,
            Am        G               Em      G       C
Yeah, It's better to love whether you win or lose or die.
       Am        G               Em        G     C
It's better to love, and I will love you 'til I die.

The Graveyard Near The House

# Capo 3

# Intro
# C    C    Am    F
# **When playing some of the 'C' chords, you will actually play:
#  3   5   3   2
#  0   0   0   0
#  0   0   0   0
#  0   0   0   0    You can figure out the amt of strums/pattern

# C
# And it xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx midnight
# Am                                      F                    
# Or at least xxxxx xxxx xxx xxxx yourself xxx 
#                 C
# a minute xx xxx
# C
# As you xxxxx xxxxx xxx xxx lights
# Am                                  F
# The band plays xxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxxxx
#                        C
# yourself for x xxxxx.
# 
#
# Am                                   F                   C
# and the piano's xxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxx xxx xxxxx
# Am                                        F
# that white dress she's xxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx xxxx xxx 
# a while
#
# C
# But you know xxxx xxxxx watching.
# Am                               F
# She's laughing, xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxx
#                           C
# tonic like x xxxxx
# 
# the song basically continues a C, Am, F, C pattern 
# throughout the whole song with the exception of
# the bridge which is 
# F G x3 
# and the ending where "you just have to see her" is repeated
# it alternates between Am and F and the finishes on C

C/G                                                     Am
All these buckets of rain, I've heard enough about. You say that I lied.
G
I am a gentleman
         C/G
Didn't I ask for a place I could stay? What were we both thinking?
        Am                     G
The next part just got in the way.
                                     C/G
You were just always talking about changing.
                   Am      G
What if I was the same then, the same I always was?


C/G
All these things that you say, like I'll forget about
       Am
These mind-numbing games that you play.
G
I am a gentleman
         C/G                                             Am
Didn't I pay for every laugh every dime, every bit every time
                           G
And then you feed me some line.
                                   C/G
I won't hear one more word about changing.
 	             Am        G
Guess what I am the same man, same that I've always been.


Dm                       Am                         G
Days pass and turn into weeks, when we don't even speak.
		   C/G			    Dm
We just lay wide awake and pretend we're asleep.
  	          Am			     G
You go home alone and you're checking your phone

And you're looking at me like I'm something you own.


C/G						         Am
All these buckets of rain, you can't forget about it, you say I never tried.
G
I am a gentleman
         C/G
Didn't I answer every time that you call, pick you up when you fall
     G
but you never listen at all
                                     C/G
You were just always talking about changing.
                     Am        G
Guess what I am the same man.

Changing

# Intro: F  Dm  A#  C


    F                                              Dm
This city is haunted by the ghost of failure, I am one and you are one
                                              A#
We've spent this whole time on the run from a lie that I told
                                            C
That you closed your eyes and you chose to believe
  
           F
So now you ask me for honesty, Just take a second, breathe
        Dm
I'm not good enough for you, you were never good enough to me
              A#                                         C
No one's ever good enough to be, or have something so naïve

                F
When I broke my hand on your car, when you told me you were leavin'
      Dm
And I begged for your forgiveness, my broken fingers bleedin'
   A#                                                  C
My heavy heart repeatin', afraid, just stay here with me

                    Am          Dm               F                Am
Then you took your clothes off instead, and you danced around my room
      F          Am              Dm            F
Don't worry, you said,'cause the end is coming soon
          F          C                 A#                    F
And we'll meet again someday and we'll toast these stunning ruins
        C                A#   C       F
For the bride I'll never be, and the groom

F  Dm  A#  C

      F
Now I picture you like snowflakes, like desperate pouring rain
         Dm
Like the beating of the drum in the parade of the insane
            A#
You are the whisper in my ear, when I wake and no one's here
                 C
There's just the echo of your name

           F
So now you ask me for honesty, I close my eyes, breathe,
        Dm
I'm the one who always is so ready to leave
        A#
To be a distant memory
                                 C
To be a ship disappearing in the sea

      F
And I crashed upon your rocks when I heard your voice singing
      Dm
And I begged for your love with my busted ears ringing
   A#
My hopeful heart repeating
                                     C
You are more than the promise of the sea

                   Am          Dm               F                Am
Then you took your clothes off instead, and you danced around my room
      F          Am              Dm            F
Don't worry, you said,'cause the end is coming soon
          F          C                 A#                    F
And we'll meet again someday and we'll toast the cursed ruins
        C                A#   C       F
For the bride I'll never be, and the groom

# (C)

Bride and Groom

A|---------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|
C|--------------------------------------------|
G|---5-8--8--8--8--8--8-5-10--8-5-8------------|(                                                
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|
C|--------------------------------------------|
G|---10-13--13--13--13--13--13-10-15--13-10-13------------|(

# Intro: Bb (for a while, be patient) 
Eb F Gm Bb  
Eb F Bb     

               Bb
All the time, awake, you're still on my mind.
                   Gm                 F   
But we were on our own almost all the time.
                Bb   
And she'll step away for a second or two.
               Gm                    F   
And I close my eyes.  And I think of you.

        Eb        F             Gm             Bb   
We were only seventeen, we were holding in our screams
          Eb               F             Gm           Bb    
Like we'd torn it from the pages of some lipstick magazine
         Eb                  F   
And you scratch and turn and say,
           Gm            F      Eb              Bb  
Let's burn ourselves up 'til we scream like gasoline

# Bb again for a while

             Bb   
Those tender days at your mother's house
         Gm                                    F(D)
And your father would find my hand inside your blouse
                 Bb
But they tell me that you're married now
      Gm                               F   
Oh my dear, I fear, I can't understand how

        Eb        F             Gm               Bb   
We were only seventeen, we were holding back our screams
          Eb                      F             Gm        Bb   
Like we'd torn our lives from the pages of some girly magazines
         Eb                  F   
And you scratch and turn and say,
                 Gm          F      Eb             Bb   
Let's burn these sheets down to the seams like gasoline

# Solo thing:
Bb Dm Gm F x2

      Eb          F             Gm         Bb   
I was only twenty one, I wasn't having any fun
        Eb                  F                    Gm             Bb   
And the words you said tore through my head like bullets from a gun
      Eb              F   
And I should've just shown up and said,
    Gm      F          Eb   
Get in this car, let's run

          Eb                 F        Gm             Bb   
And these years have seen so many imitations turning green
              Eb                  F         Gm           Bb   
Each like the last, they go right past like credits on a screen
         Eb            F   
But your memory blazes through me
Gm      F    Eb            Bb   
Burning everything like gasoline

Gasoline

# Intro:
A|---------------------------------|
E|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
C|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---|
G|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|

                D
And speaking of
                      E
Little Miss Catherine
            A           F#m
I feel swell, oh well
                       D
Because losing you
                        E           A
Was something I always
         D
Did so well
   E                  A       F#m
I guess I just can't tell anymore
         D                 C
And the feeling I get when I see your clothes
A                F#m
Spread out on my floor
         D                E
Oh, I'm such a bore, I'm such a bore
           A          G# F#m
I don't do anything anymore
#         D                   E                       (see below) 
I just count these ceiling tiles falling through my floor
A|-----7-7--5-5-12-12---|
E|-5-5------------------|
C|----------------------|
G|----------------------|

A                        F#m
Sorry, I really lost my head
     A                       F#m
I'm sorry, I really lost my head
                    D             E
But you know those words that you said
         A                F#m
They get stuck here in my head
         D         E                  A          F#m
And this feeling I dread, it makes me wish I was dead
        D                      E
Or just alone instead, I'll be alone instead
             A      G#    F#m
I don't need anyone in my bed
#             D       E                       (see below)
Just these ceiling tiles falling through my head
A|-----7-7--5-5-12-12---|
E|-5-5------------------|
C|----------------------|
G|----------------------|

A, F#m, D, Bm 

A                       F#m
Sorry, I really lost my head
            A                      F#m
Oh, I'm so sorry, I really lost my head
                     A
Oh, those words you said

Happiness Is Overrated

D           A       D         A
All dressed up, no place to run
   D        A        D         A
No car, no girl, no pills, no fun
Bm            A        Bm       A
Nothing to do in this empty room
        Bm     A       Bm     A
I gotta get my head together soon


D           A       D         A
Alone again, no plans, no friends
   D        A        D         A
You come around at half past ten
         Bm            A        Bm       A
You say "How are you holding up my friend?
        Bm         A            Bm     A
Are you sitting around getting drunk again?"
 
G                                   F#
And I hear the desperation of those lines
       G                    A
Wasted hours, others wasted time
Uh, yeah, I been just fine!

D A D A D A D A Bm A Bm A Bm A Bm A

          D           A       D         A
Then we're out the door in an hour more
    D           A       D         A
We stumble down from the second floor
         Bm   A   Bm    A
And we're swaying, braying
    Bm          A        Bm       A
We don't know what we're saying

        D         A         D         A
And you grab my shirt, your way so curt
  D           A          D         A
I swear to God that this doesn't hurt
         Bm          A            Bm       A
When you stare like that, you put on that act
    Bm          A              Bm       A
You say something and then you take it back

      G                                   F#
And I feel as though I've done something wrong
          G                    A
Oh, how I miss you when you're gone

D A D A D A D A Bm A Bm A Bm A Bm A (x2)

F# A F# D

      D       A      D       A
And I wish I had the guts to scream
    D              A           D         A
You know, things aren't always what they seem
         Bm     A     Bm      A
When you walk away, I want to stay
       Bm       A      Bm        A
Don't leave me here to pace and pray

          D         A        D       A
All these nights I burnt, hours I turned
      D        A      D       A
You think that by now I'd learnt
            Bm     A         Bm      A
That you're only what you pretend to be
  Bm         A         Bm      A
I guess that was just lost on me

         G                                   F#
I can't stand the way you look at me in that dress
           G                       A
Oh, happy, alright I might be, I guess

If I wasn't such a mess!

D A D A D A D A Bm A Bm A Bm A Bm A

# End on D

Papillon

Intro: G C Am G x2

G         C
It was an old song,
                        Am                G
From "Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me" that she sang.
G         C
It was an old line,
                         Am               G
I kept with me, with me, with me when she rang

C             G
You're such a strange girl,
C             G
You're such a strange, strange girl.
C             G
You're such a strange girl.
C             G

G               C
It's all been erased
Am          G
Everyone is telling me,
G                C
It's slightly deranged,
Am          G
Everyone is telling me.

G C Am G

G         C
We traded blindness for wisdom
         Am               G
And some lines around the eyes.
G            C
But you just act like it was a fact of life
          Am            G
It didn't come as a surprise.

C             G
You're such a strange girl,
C             G
You're such a strange, strange girl.
C             G
You're such a strange girl.
C             G

Bm         Am    C       G
And no you can't ever go home.
Bm             Am              C          G
Everything has changed and the people are gone.
Bm            Am       C             G
So close your eyes and summon up the song
Bm                Am           C                D
And you feel your life falling under you like a slide
       D
Like a slide

G         C
It was an old song,
                  Am             G
I once knew every note and every line.
G        C
It was a long night,
       Am                                   G
When I carried you and you carried me for a time.

C             G
You're such a strange girl,
C             G
You're such a strange, strange girl.
C             G
You're such a strange girl.
C             G

G               C
It's all been erased
Am          G
Everyone is telling me,
G                C
It's slightly deranged,
Am          G
Everyone is telling me.
G                C
I dreamt of your face
Am                    G
And what the song was telling me

C                    Am
For time has made it all obscene
C                     Am        G
And trapped us in our dreams

Strange Girl

# A-----------------|
# E-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-| (x4)
# C-----------------| 
# G-----------------|


# A-4---7-11--14--4---7---11--7-|
# E-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-| (x4)
# C-----------------------------| 
# G-----------------------------|

# (You can play the above with or without the open E)

E
My heart, my head
E
My head, my head
E
This blood, this bed
E
This bed, this bed
     Dbm                         A
If I can feel the angels falling down around my head
      Dbm                          A
Their bodies spinning endlessly in circles 'round this bed
A                E
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
                 Dbm                    A
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
                 E
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
                 Dbm                    A
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
        E
And you don't know what to do sometimes
           A
and you're just lost there for days
    Dbm
And everyone tells you just calm down
  A
remember what she said
E
And she's standing by the record store
              A
She's got her whole life in her hands
       Dbm
She says she's crazy man but I'm crazy too
          A
And I'm crazy for what we had
A           E
It was true love, it was true love
            B            A
It was true love, it was true love
            E
It was true love, it was true love
            B            A
It was true love, it was true love

            E
It was true love
         B
And everyone told me that I was wrong
      A
But I thought that it wasn't true
         B
And everyone told me that I was wrong
        A
But I'm going home with you
A
'Cause I was there

E A E A E
B A E (x2)

E
And I tore myself apart that night
     A
Just wondering where you had gone
             Dbm
With the howlin dogs in the alleyway
              A
And all the angels on your lawn
     E
They're standing here in front of me
                 A
You got the whole life in your hands
              Dbm
I know I'm crazy love, but you're crazy too
       A
You're the only thing in my prayers
A                E
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
                 B                      A
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
                E
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
                 B                      A
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
                 E
'Cause it's true love
    B
And everyone told us just go find
    A
The meaning of a better song
    B
But they don't know a god damn thing about us
A
Or a thing about holding on
[n/c]
'Cause we were wrong

True Love

Intro:
E B A


E 
Standing on a bus stop
E
Feeling your head pop
A
Out in the night
A
On the kind of night
E
Where you want to be out
E
On the street, on the street
A
Crawling up the walls
A
Like a cat in heat

E 
And the air is thin
E
And it blows through your skin
A
And you feel like something
A
Is about to begin
E
But you don't know what
E
And you don't know when
A
So you tear at your hair
A
And you scratch at your skin

E 
You wanna run away, run away
         A
Just get on the fucking train and leave today
               E
And it doesn't matter where you spend the night
               A
You just might end up somewhere in a fight, in a fight
   E
Or caught in your room on a concrete shelf
         
A
Fighting all alone, with yourself, with yourself
        E
And you just wanna feel like a coin that's been tossed
   A
In a wishing well, a wishing well

B 
A wishing well, a wishing well
      A
Well, you're tossed in the air
A
And you fell and you fell
            B
Through the dark blue waters
B
Where you cast your spell
A
Like you were just a wish that could turn out well


E B A


E 
So you stand on the corner
Where the angels sit
And you think to yourself,
"This is it, this is it,
        A
This is all that I have
All I can stand
Is this air in my lungs
And this coin in my hand
That you tossed in the air
And I fell, and I fell
        E
All the way to the bottom
Of the well, of the well
           E
Like those soft little secrets
                        E
That you tell, that you tell
E 
To yourself, when you think
                       A
No one's listening to, well

E
And the walls spin
E
And you're paper-thin
         A
From the haze of the smoke
A
And the mescaline
    E
The threat of your brow
E
Under unmade sheets
        A
In your ear with the noise
A
From the darkest streets
       E
We ran far and wide
E
You screamed, you cried
    A
You thought suicide was an alibi
             E
But you were always a mess
E
You were always aloof
             A
Yeah, it's awful, I guess
A
But it's the awful truth
       E
It was truth from the first
                           A
To the last words that she read

        B
And she emerged from the dark
B
Like a ghost in my head
           A
She said, "I haven't forgot
A
Any words that you said
       B
I just stare at the clocks
B
And I cry in my sleep
      A
And I tear up your letters
A
And I burn them in heaps
      B
And I gather the ashes

In that hole in the ground
         A
Where we fell

E B A

Wishing Well

This is the closing track to The Airborne Toxic Event's self-titled debut album, for the American release. The UK version has the song at track 10 of 13, compared to 10 from 10 in the USA.

'Sometime Around Midnight' was the third single from The Airborne Toxic Event. It gained much airplay on radio stations, particularly BBC Radio One in the United Kingdom where it reached position #33 in the singles chart. In America the song reached #4 in the Billboard Modern Rock Charts. It is track 7 from the band's debut album.  According to the Sometime Around Midnight Songfacts,  this song describes a night out when Mikel Jollett ran into his ex-girlfriend.

The band said: &quot;It's a song about conflict and resolution, resisting and accepting change.&quot; (Source Changing Songfacts).

Verse 1:
           B
I'm going back to the time when we owned this town
      E
Down Powder Mill Lane, in the battlegrounds
C#m        B                   G#m  B     F#
We were friends and lovers and clueless clowns


Verse 2:
                      B       
I didn't know I'd be finding out now I was torn from you
         E
When we thought about things we were gonna do
C#m      B                    G#m B  F# 
We were wide eyed dreamers and wiser too


Chorus:
               E              B 
Go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café


Verse 3:
                          B
I'm begging you for some sign, but you've still got nothing to say
        E
Don't turn your back on me, don't walk away
C#m     B                   G#m  B   F#
I'm a better man now than I was that day


Chorus:
                      E              B 
Let's go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

                 E               B
Go down to the bandstand on the pier
           G#m                    F#
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear
                      E                     G#m   F#     
Take time, just the stars at the Sovereign Light Café


Bridge:
   E        B           F#
I wheel my bike off the train,
        F#
Up the North Trade Road,
 E        B             F# 
Look for you on Marley Lane
                          G#m
In every building, every streetlight
                   E               F#  G#m  B  F#
Oh why did we ever go so far from home?


Verse 4:
                        B
You keep on leaving me mile long traces of who you are
         E
You can get a big house and a faster car
C#m      B                    G#m   B  F#
You can run away boy, but you won't go far


Chorus:
                      E              B
Let's go down to the rides on East Parade,
        G#m                   F#
by the lights of the Palace Arcade
                    E                     G#m   F#   
Watch night coming down on the Sovereign Light Café

                    E                B
Stroll down to the bandstand on the pier
           G#m                    F#
Watch the drunks and the lovers appear
                     E                      G#m   F#
Take time, just the stars at the Sovereign Light Café 

      E            B    G#m
La la la la la la la la Yeah, 
     F#                      E       B   F#
I'm going where the people know my name


Outro:
E B G#m F#
E B G#m F# B

Sovereign Light Cafe

strumming pattern
D-DUD-D

F,G,C,Em7

mmmmm mmmm mmmm 

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting


[Verse 1: Rihanna]

F              G
Dry! ...Me a desert
C                 Em7
Nuh time to have ya lerkin'
F                        G
Him ago act like him nuh like it
C                           Em7
You know I dealt with you the nicest
F                        G
Nuh body touch me in the righteous
C                     Em7
Nuh botha, text me in a crisis 
           F                    G
I believed all of your dreams, adoration
            C                    Em7
You took my heart and my keys and my patience
            F                        G
You took my heart on my sleeve for decoration
                C                          Em7
You mistaken my love I brought for you for foundation
           F             G
All that I wanted from you was to give me
C            Em7
Something that I never had
F                   G
Something that you've never seen
C                     Em7
Something that you've never been!
F     G
Mmmmm!
      C                          
But I wake up and act like nothing's wrong
D
Just get ready fi...


[Hook: Rihanna]
F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting
F             G
Ner ner ner ner ner ner!
               C           Em7
When you a guh ner ner ner ner ner ner!
                  F                 G
Before the tables turn turn turn turn turn turn!
C             Em7
Beg you something please


[Verse 2: Rihanna]

F            G
Baby don't you leave
               C                 Em7
Do''t leave me stuck here in the streets, 
   F                  G
uh huh If I get another chance to
       C                Em7
I will never, no never neglect you
      F                         G
I mean who am I to hold your past against you?
       C                    Em7
I just hope that it gets to you
  F           G
I hope that you see this through
  C                      Em7
I hope that you see this true
F          G
What can I say?
       C          
Please recognize I'm tryin', baby!!!
 Em7
I have to


[Hook: Rihanna]

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting


[Verse 3: Drake]

N.C.
Yeah, okay
F        G        C                   Em7
You need to get done, done, done, done at work, come over
F               G
We just need to slow the motion
C                   Em7
Don't give that away to no one
F            G
Long distance, I need you
C                          Em7
When I see potential I just gotta see it through
F                        G
If you had a twin, I would still choose you
C                           Em7
I don't wanna rush into it, if it's too soon
      F      G               C              
But I know you need to get done, done, done, done
   Em7
If you come over
F            G
Sorry if I'm way less friendly
C                    Em7
I got n____s tryna end me,
F G           C                 Em7
oh,     I spilled all my emotions tonight, I'm sorry
F               G
Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'
C                                Em7
How many more shots until you're rollin'?
F              G
We just need a face to face
C                    Em7            F
You could pick the time and the place
               G
You spent some time away
C                Em7
Now you need to forward and give me all the...


[Hook: Rihanna]

F                    G
Work, work, work, work, work, work. He said me haffi
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work! He see me do mi
F                     G
Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt! So me put in
C                   Em7
Work, work, work, work, work, work. When you ah guh
F                        G
Learn, learn, learn, learn, learn Meh nuh cyar if him
C                   Em7
Hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt, hurting

mmm mmm mmm..


[Outro: Rihanna]

work work work work work work

F G C D
F G C D

Work

Intro: C D C D (x2)


C D
Si es que no puedes hablar
C D
no te atrevas a volver
C D
si te quieres ocultar
C D
tal vez te podria ver
Em D C G C
y el amor que no sabe a quien y que
G C
hablará si tu verdad
Em F
te abrazara otra vez

Em C
Habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G C
y te hace feliz

C D


C D
Si no puedes escuchar
C D
aunque insistas hablaré
C D
si lo quieres mírame
C D
y tus ojos hablaran tal vez
Em D C G C
sentiras el amor e iras tras el
G C
hablaras si tu verdad
Em F
te abrazará otra vez

Em C
Habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y te hace feliz
Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita si temes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y te hace feliz


Em G C G
.(CUERDAS)... abrazaméeeeeeeee..
C Em F
quiero despertarme y entender

Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita si temes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y que haces aquì
Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G C
y te hace feliz
G C
y te hace feliz

C D
(fin)

Habla si puedes

LA RE
Jo et duré a casa si fa mal temps
MI FA#m
Jo t’empararé si un cas tens por
SIm MI
Jo te cuidaré si estàs malalta
RE LA
De tot cor, de tot cor
RE REm LA
De tot cor

MI RE DO#m-SIm-LA

FA#m DO#m
Estic a punt d’anar-me’n
RE LA RE
Mes abans de partir et diré
REm LA
Que et duc dins es pensament

FA#m DO#m
No deix de recordar-te
RE LA RE
I alen els teus alens tot calents
REm SIm MI
De lluny i de prop me tens


Jo et duré...

FA#m DO#m
I a dalt de s’escenari
RE LA RE
Quan estic concentrat cantant
REm MI
Jo sempre te tenc present

FA#m DO#m
Perquè m’ets necessari
RE LA
Com s’aire que respir
RE REm SIm MI
Necessit estar amb tu en tot moment


Jo et duré... ( bis )

De tot cor

(Chorus)
G
You xxxx X xxx'x smile xxxx xxx
Em
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Am7
I xxx'x xxxxx xxx X xxx'x sing
D7
I'm xxxxxxx xx xxxx xx xx xxxxxxxx
(1st Verse)
G
You xxx X xxxx xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
Em
X feel xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Am7
If xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx X'x xxxxx through
D7                              G Em G Em
X just xxx'x xxxxx without xxx
(2nd verse)
G
You xxxx along xxxx xxxx x song
Em
Xxx brightened xx xxx
Am7
Whod've xxxxxxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xx x dream
                  D7
Xxx xx xxx xxxxx light xxxxx xxxx
(Chorus)
         G 
Xxx now xxx xxx X xxx'x smile xxxx xxx
Em
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Am7
I xxx'x xxxxx xxx X xxx'x sing
D7                          Eb
I'm xxxxxxx xx xxxx xx xx anything
(3rd Verse)
Ab
You xxx X xxxx xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
   Fm
X feel xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Bbm
If xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx X'x xxxxx through
Ebm
X just xxx'x xxxxx
Ebm                                 Ab               C#
Now xxxx xxxxxx xxx happiness xxxxx so xxxx xxxx xx find
C#m                                         Eb     E
Well, X'x xxxxxxx xx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx behind me
A
And xxx xxx X xxx'x smile xxxxxxx xxx
F#m
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Bm
X xxx'x laugh xxx X xxx'x sing
E
X'x finding xx xxxx xx xx xxxxxxxx
Bb
You xxx X xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Gm
X feel xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
Cm
If xxx xxxx knew xxxx X'x xxxxx through
F
X just xxx'x smile xxxxxxx xxx

Can't Smile Without You

Intro: Em  A  Em  A

       Em               A                Em                   
 A
Verse: Be on my side or be on your side, there is no reason for you to hide,
       Em                 A
       Its so hard for me stayin' here all alone, when you could be takin'
       A                Em                                             A
       Me for a ride... She could drag me, over the rainbow, send me away


        G     D         A    G  D          A
Chorus:  Down by the ri-ver,  I shot my ba-by

 Em        A
 Ooh, Ooh, shot her dead


Verse 2:You take my hand I'll take your hand, together we may get away,

        This must madness is too much sorrow, its impossible to make it

        today... She could drag me, over the rainbow, send me away


(Chorus)

(Verse 1)

Down By The River

Intro: D-A-Bm-Em-A  x4

         D                 A                          
I'll confess tonight your all thats on my mind
        Bm            A                   D
I know these roof top nights could last forever.
              A                            Bm
we watched the seasons change, we saw the distance pull us away,
           A
from all we shared together.

D                       A
Right now is all we have you better make this count
Bm                       A
these are the moments i wish i could forget you.

D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
    Em    A
lets run away.
D                             A                             Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
    Em    A
lets run away.

play intro  x2

D                    A
I picked apart every word that you said
  Bm                              A
I dissected each sentence but kept coming up empty
D                         A
the way you are leaves me counting the days
        Bm                            A
till the next time this distance will be a memory


D                        A        
Right now is all we have you better make this count
Bm                     D
these are the moments i wish i could forget you.


D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                              Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
     Em   A
lets run away.

D-A-Bm-A

where have you been


                                                                        Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                                          Bm
I think back to the nights I looked into your bright green eyes and you said,
     Em   A
lets run away.
D                            A                              Bm
its 9am the sun wont rise for 3 more hours pacific time you said
     Em   A
lets run away


American Dream 

G Bm Em A
Well everybody's lookin' for something they can't find,
Walking straight ahead blind-folded production line,
Only taking time for one type of shoe-shine.
Don't look left/right now you got a street fine.
Everybody lookin' for just a little more.
Working late-nights trying to fight off the day glow.
Waiting for the come-around but it is a no show.
Driving in the fast lane lookin' for the slow-mo...

C D A
Oh whats in store I don't know anymore.
Oh what's inside 'cos I can't hide from it no more.
Oh what you see well it's not me anymore.
Oh I don't know well I don't know man anymore because 

G Bm Em A
I tell you once I tell you twice, gonna be a long time
But you don't take no one's advice, gonna be a long time you,
Where were you, you weren't listenin', gonna be a long time
Gonna be a long time.

G Bm Em A
So now you're face down, face lookin like a frying pan.
Hitting up the clubs trying to feel like a real man.
Beating your chest just like you're King Kong but you're just a gui-tar no-string no-song.
Feeling free like ya don't even know it, man you're towing the line hoping you just don't blow it.
Man ya stuck in the mainframe trying to win the big game so much potential it even makes it more of a shame, shame, shame...
Here we go again, same old shit just another name.
Looking at the destiny there in your palm,
But now you got your strings but you got no song.
So sing, sing, sing - shake it like a chicken wing.
It's not what you get it's about what you bring-bring-bring.
So bring it, bring it to the table, not because you have to 'cos you're willing and you're able!

C D A
Oh what's in store I don't know anymore.
Oh what's inside 'cos I can't hide from it no more.
Oh what you see well it's not me anymore.
Oh I don't know, I don't know anymore because 

G Bm Em A
I tell you once I tell you twice, gonna be a long time.
But you don't take no one's advice, gonna be a long time.
You, where were you, you weren't listening, gonna be a long time.
Gonna be a long time.

Gonna Be A Long Time

[intro x2]
A  E  D A

A                                        E
when there's no place you feel at home
              D                               A
and you think you'd be better off alone
A                                          E
when you think there's no reason to try
               D                           A
and you hate yourself and wanna die

A                                      E
when you're filled with anxiety
             D                   A
and everyone's your enemy
A                                        E
when you wish you were someone else
                 D                        A
and you wanna go out and kill yourself

[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

(take your time)


A                       E
when you get yourself depressed
                      D                   A
because you think you can't do your best
A                                         E
when you write yourself a stupid song
           D                        A
to remind yourself that you forgot

[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

(take your time)


[BRIDGE]
# chords x2:
A  E  D  A

A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|-0-2--------------------------------------------------|
C|------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----2-4-2---2-4-2-1---1-1-2-2-1-2-4-2-1-22-----------|     x2



[chorus]

E D                 A
ooh you're overreacting

(you can change your mind)
E D                A
ooh you're overreacting

Overreacting

It takes a while to get used to the rhythm. In the verse the
time signature goes 3/4 for 2 bars then 2/4 for 1 bar and then
repeats.


Intro and Verses:

A|-2---3---2-|-5-------5-|------|-10------10|-9-------9-|------
E|-----------|-----------|------|-----------|-----------|----3-
C|-0---------|-2---2-----|------|-----7-----|-----------|-2----
G|-0---------|-0---------|-0----|-9---------|-7---------|------
   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |

Intro Riff:

A|-10--12--10-|-9---10---9-|-2---3---2-|-5-------5-|-------|
E|------------|------------|-----------|-----------|-------|
C|------------|------------|-0---------|-2---2-----|-------|
G|-9----------|-7----------|-0---------|-0---------|-0-----|



Chorus:

                   C
I...              driving...
     G  
The speed...            

Em
      City...

        D
And...  arm...
    
    C  Em        D
And I      had a feeling...

    C  Em        D
And I      had a feeling...

C           D
be...       be... 

Suggestion: during the verses, it can sound pretty cool if you
get a friend to strum the chords: C, G, Em, D in the background
:)

Bride and Groom	No rating	beginner	Chords	Full
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