The Airborne Toxic Event – All I Ever Wanted chords

Capo 2

Intro: F   Dm   Am      x3


F                    Dm                         AmI can only say these things to you while you're sleeping.
               F                       Dm                    AmI hear the the hum from the wires, the sounds of the morning creeping.
  F             Dm              AmI lie awake and pretend you can hear me.


F   Dm   Am      x2


    F                                    Dm                AmYou tell that you're scared, that you're turning into your mother,
  F           Dm           AmI feel myself turn into my father.
         F                      Dm                          AmWe could lie to each other like they do and say we're still happy
     F                          Dm                   AmIt's easy when you're young and you still want it so badly.


      Dm      C        A#And I feel my heart pounding
      Dm    C       A#And I think I might scream


      F                               CI can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
      Dm                          A#I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear
  F                           C                 DmI shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.


F   Dm   Am      x2


   F                        Dm                    AmAt night you whisper like a ghost and you look so shaken
          F                       Dm                     AmYou're so quiet and small and you tell me you want to be taken.
       F                         Dm                     AmI just never think of you as the kind of girl who would say that.
    F                       Dm                   AmYou suddenly seem like some faceless thing in my grasp.


          Dm      C                A#With your eyes so wide, your face aglow
        Dm      C               A#It’s the face of someone I don't know.


      F                               CI can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
      Dm                          A#I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear
  F                           C                 DmI shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.


F   Dm   Am      x7


    Dm                           C                   A#And all I could think is that it must be a kind of rebellion.
   Dm                  C            A#To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.


      F                               CI can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
            Dm                                 A#Through the din of your breathing while you're sleeping here.
    F                      C                DmYou wake and ask me if I'm going to be here forever, forever, forever.


     F                        CYour face so twisted and your eyes alight
          Dm                                A#I want to tell you I can change it when you cry at night
    F   C  DmBut I'd be lying.
F    C  DmLove is defying.


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