It took me a few hours to complete the song, but here it is! Sometimes it's quite
difficult what they're playing exactly.
Band: The Airborne Toxic Event
Song: The Graveyard Near The House
Album: All At Once
Chords:
C: x32010
C/B1: x2x013
C/B2: x2x010
C/B3: x2x00x
G1: 32003x
G2: 320003
G3: 3x00(0)x (The (0) means that it doesn't matter if you play this note whether or not)
F: 133210 (how they play the F)
Am: x02210 (Sounds like the F chord!)
Capo 3
Intro:
C G1 C/B1 Am
-Verse 1
C G1
The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house
C/B1 Am
You asked me if I thought we would ever die
C G1
And if life and love both fade so predictably
C/B1 Am
We've made ourselves a kind of predictable lie
F
And so I pictured us like corpses
G2
Lying side by side in pieces
C/B2 Am
In some dark and lonely plot under a bough
F
We looked so silly there all decomposed
G2
Half turned to dust in tattered clothes
C/B2 Am
Though we probably look just as silly now
-Chorus
F C G2
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye to all this dog-eared innocence
F C C/B2 Am
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next or how to be
C C/B2 Am G3 F(Remember the high E-string)
But you have no i---de-a about me
C
Do you?
-Verse 2
C G1
And it left me to wonder if people ever know each other
C/B1 Am
Or just stumble around like strangers in the dark
C G1
'Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me, I must seem strange to you
C/B1 Am
We're like two actors playing our parts
F
Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did
G2
Here's the part where I get so mad
C/B1 Am
I tell you I can't forget the past
F
You get so quiet now and you seem somehow
G2
like a lost and lonely child
C/B1 Am
And you just hope that the moment won't last
-Chorus
F C G2
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye to all this dog-eared innocence
F C C/B2 Am
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next or how to be
C C/B2 Am G3 F
But you have no i---de-a about me / 2x
C
Do you?
-Bridge
F C
So there's always a way around
F C
There's something tying our feet to the ground
C/B2 Am
A moment passed we hear how it sounds
C C/B2 Am G3 F
Then it seems a little less profound
C C/B2 Am G3 F
Like we're all going the same way down
C C/B2 Am G3 F
Like we're all going the same way down
C C/B2 Am G F
I'm just trying to write it all down
-Verse 3
C G2
'Cause I write songs and you write letters
F G2
We are tied like two in tethers
C G2
And we talk and read, and laugh and sleep
F G2
At night in bed together
C G2
And you wake in tears sometimes
F G2
I can see your thoughts flash across your eyes
C G2
They say darling will you be kind,
F G
will you be a good man and stay behind
Am
If I get old?
-Outro 1
F G2
And then the letters all pass through my head
C C/B2 Am
With the words that I was told
F G2
About the fading flesh of life and love
C C/B2 Am
The failures of the bold
F G2
I can list each crippling fear
C C/B2 Am
like I'm reading from a will
C C/B2 Am G3 F
And I'll defy every-one and love you still
C C/B2 Am G3 F
I will carry you with me up every hill
Am C/B3 C C/B3 Am
And if you die before I die I'll carve your name out of the sky
Am C/B3 C C/B3 Am
I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie
-Interlude
F G2 C C/B2 Am
Maybe better to move on and to let life just carry on and I may be wrong
-Outro 2
C
Still I try
F G2 C C/B2 Am
Because it's better to love, whether you win or lose or die
F G2 C C/B2 Am
Because it's better to love, whether you win or lose or die
C G2 C C/B2 Am
It's better to love, and I will love you 'til I die
Ends on C