Biography:
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 "Sometime Around Midnight", which was a hit in the U.K. as well on American alternative radio in 2008 and 2009.
Named after a section of the book 'White Noise'
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Other songs:
- Bride and Groom
- Changing
- Gasoline
- Happiness Is Overrated
- Innocence
- Missy
- Papillon
- Sometime Around Midnight
- Strange Girl
- The Graveyard Near The House
- True Love
- Wishing Well
- A Certain Type Of Girl
- All At Once
- All For A Woman
- All I Ever Wanted
- America
- April Is The Cruelest Month
- Bride Groom
- California
- Change And Change And Change And Change
- Cocaine And Abel
- Does This Mean Youre Moving On
- Dublin
- Duet
- Elizabeth
- Goodbye Horses
- Half Of Something Else
- Hell And Back
- It Doesnt Mean A Thing
- Letter To Georgia
- Numb
- One Time Thing
- Parson Red Heads
- Poor Isaac
- Safe
- Something New
- Strangers
- The Fall Of Rome
- The Fifth Day
- The Girls In Their Summer Dresses
- The Kids Are Ready To Die
- The Secret
- The Storm
- The Thing About Dreams
- The Way Home
- The Winning Side
- This Is London
- This Losing
- Timeless
- Whats In A Name
- Why Why Why
- Wishing Song
- Wrong
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The Graveyard Near The House
The Airborne Toxic Event
Capo 1st fret
Chords: D A G Bm
Intro: D A G Bm
Verse
D
The other day when we were walking by
A
The graveyard near the house you asked me
G
If I thought
Bm
We would ever die
D
And if life and love both fade so
A
Predictably we've made ourselves
G
A kind of
Bm
Predictable lie.
Pre Chorus
D
So I pictured us like corpses
A
Lying side by side in pieces
G Bm
In some dark and lonely plot, under a bough
D
We looked so silly there, all decomposed
A
Half turned to dust, in tattered clothes
G Bm
Though we probably look just as silly now.
Chorus
G D A
Bye bye bye, bye, bye bye, to all this dog-eared innocence
G D A
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
Bm
Or how to be
D A Bm A G
But you have no idea 'bout me
D
Do you?
Verse 2
D
And it left me to wonder if
A
People ever know each other,
G
Or just stumble around like strangers
Bm
In the dark
D
Because sometimes you seem so strange to me
A
I must seem strange to you
G
We're like two actors
Bm
Playing our parts.
Pre Chorus 2
D
Did you memorise your lines? 'Cause I did
A
Here's the part where I get so mad
G Bm
I tell you that I can't forget the past
D
You get so quiet now and you seem somehow
A
Like a lost and lonely child
G Bm
And you just hope that the moment won't last.
Chorus 2
G D A
Bye bye bye, bye, bye bye, to all this dog-eared innocence
G D A
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
Bm
Or how to be
D A Bm A G
But you have no idea 'bout me
D A Bm A G
You have no idea 'bout me
D
Do you?
Bridge
G Bm
Still there's always a way around
G D
There's something tying our feet to the ground
A Bm
A moment passed, we hear how it sounds
D A Bm A G
And then it seems a little less profound
D A Bm A D
Like we're all going the same way down
D A Bm A D
Like we're all going the same way down
D A Bm A D
I'm just trying to write it all down...
D A
'Cause I write songs and you write letters
G A
We are tied like two in tethers and
D A
We talk and read, and laugh and sleep
G A
At night in bed together and
D A G A
You wake in tears sometimes, I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes
D A G A
They say, "Darling will you be kind? Will you be a good man and stay behind,
Bm
When I get old?"
G A
And then the letters all pass through my head
D A Bm
With the words that I was told,
G A
About the fading flesh of life, and love,
D A Bm
The failures of the bold.
G A
I could list each crippling fear like I'm
D A Bm
Reading from a will.
D A Bm A G
And I'll defy every one and love you still
D A Bm A G
I will carry you with me up every hill
G A
And if you die before I die,
D A Bm
I'll carve your name out of the sky.
G A
I'll fall asleep with your memory,
D A Bm
And dream of where you lie.
G A D A
Maybe better to move on and to let life just carry on,
Bm
And I may be wrong.
D
Still I'll try.
G A D A Bm
Because it's better to love, whether you win, or lose, or die.
G A D A Bm
It's better to love, whether you win, or lose, or die.
G A D A Bm
It's better to love, and I will love you 'till I die.
A D
Thanks!
The Airborne Toxic Event
Capo 1st fret
Chords: D A G Bm
Intro: D A G Bm
Verse
D
The other day when we were walking by
A
The graveyard near the house you asked me
G
If I thought
Bm
We would ever die
D
And if life and love both fade so
A
Predictably we've made ourselves
G
A kind of
Bm
Predictable lie.
Pre Chorus
D
So I pictured us like corpses
A
Lying side by side in pieces
G Bm
In some dark and lonely plot, under a bough
D
We looked so silly there, all decomposed
A
Half turned to dust, in tattered clothes
G Bm
Though we probably look just as silly now.
Chorus
G D A
Bye bye bye, bye, bye bye, to all this dog-eared innocence
G D A
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
Bm
Or how to be
D A Bm A G
But you have no idea 'bout me
D
Do you?
Verse 2
D
And it left me to wonder if
A
People ever know each other,
G
Or just stumble around like strangers
Bm
In the dark
D
Because sometimes you seem so strange to me
A
I must seem strange to you
G
We're like two actors
Bm
Playing our parts.
Pre Chorus 2
D
Did you memorise your lines? 'Cause I did
A
Here's the part where I get so mad
G Bm
I tell you that I can't forget the past
D
You get so quiet now and you seem somehow
A
Like a lost and lonely child
G Bm
And you just hope that the moment won't last.
Chorus 2
G D A
Bye bye bye, bye, bye bye, to all this dog-eared innocence
G D A
I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next
Bm
Or how to be
D A Bm A G
But you have no idea 'bout me
D A Bm A G
You have no idea 'bout me
D
Do you?
Bridge
G Bm
Still there's always a way around
G D
There's something tying our feet to the ground
A Bm
A moment passed, we hear how it sounds
D A Bm A G
And then it seems a little less profound
D A Bm A D
Like we're all going the same way down
D A Bm A D
Like we're all going the same way down
D A Bm A D
I'm just trying to write it all down...
D A
'Cause I write songs and you write letters
G A
We are tied like two in tethers and
D A
We talk and read, and laugh and sleep
G A
At night in bed together and
D A G A
You wake in tears sometimes, I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes
D A G A
They say, "Darling will you be kind? Will you be a good man and stay behind,
Bm
When I get old?"
G A
And then the letters all pass through my head
D A Bm
With the words that I was told,
G A
About the fading flesh of life, and love,
D A Bm
The failures of the bold.
G A
I could list each crippling fear like I'm
D A Bm
Reading from a will.
D A Bm A G
And I'll defy every one and love you still
D A Bm A G
I will carry you with me up every hill
G A
And if you die before I die,
D A Bm
I'll carve your name out of the sky.
G A
I'll fall asleep with your memory,
D A Bm
And dream of where you lie.
G A D A
Maybe better to move on and to let life just carry on,
Bm
And I may be wrong.
D
Still I'll try.
G A D A Bm
Because it's better to love, whether you win, or lose, or die.
G A D A Bm
It's better to love, whether you win, or lose, or die.
G A D A Bm
It's better to love, and I will love you 'till I die.
A D
Thanks!
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