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 Storm
The C and F chords are played slightly non-standard for ease of movement.
I highly recommend watching the youtube video of them playing the
acoustic version live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4FuSixYHKQ.
This is great for getting the timing and strum pattern figured out.
Also Mikel doesn't use a pick through "like a house in a storm", which
adds a lot to the piece. The chords:
C F Am
e|------0------0------0------|
B|------1------1------1------|
G|------0------2------2------|
D|------2------3------2------|
A|------3------3------0------|
E|------3------x------x------|
The "~C" represent the dramatic break in strumming of the
previous chord before beginning the C chord.
Intro:
C
F C
Before it took you away,
Am F C
I tried to think of something I could say.
F C
I watched the shadows in the hall.
Am F C
How they danced with the light and the white on the walls.
C F C F
Your face in these pictures looks like a poem.
C F C F
Your eyes lit up like a river stone.
C F C F
Your body so much like a blanket thrown,
Am C F
On a warm bed at night, like a house in a storm.
~ C
F C
And then you walk right through the doorway.
Am F C
You tell me you're here to stay.
F C
The worst is gone and my God how long,
Am F C
Have you been here this way?
F C
And I surprise myself sometimes,
Am F C
The way the days unfold and this road unwinds.
F C
You tell me you see it too,
Am F C
And the miles seem like inches when I think of you.
C Am F C
Its been 25 days since I've been gone.
C Am F C
25 weeks since I've seen my home.
C Am F C
I spent 25 months chasing this song,
C Am F
and all of this time I've been alone.
~ C
F C
And then you walk right through the doorway.
Am F C
You tell me you're here to stay.
F C
The worst is gone and my God how long
Am F C
Have you been here this way?
Am F C
And you knew it all along.
Am F C
I wasn't happy all along,
Am F C
and your body all I wanted
Am F C
led me to just come home.
~ C
F C
And then you walk right through the doorway.
Am F C
You tell me you're here to stay.
F C
The worst is gone and my God how long,
Am F C
Have you been here this way?
C Am F C
And I only just learned how to stand like a man,
C Am F C
I've got 25 years I've been running instead.
C Am F C
How could I see the ground at my feet
C Am F
From what you gave to me when I was caught in the storm
End on C
That I wasn't alone
The C and F chords are played slightly non-standard for ease of movement.
I highly recommend watching the youtube video of them playing the
acoustic version live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4FuSixYHKQ.
This is great for getting the timing and strum pattern figured out.
Also Mikel doesn't use a pick through "like a house in a storm", which
adds a lot to the piece. The chords:
C F Am
e|------0------0------0------|
B|------1------1------1------|
G|------0------2------2------|
D|------2------3------2------|
A|------3------3------0------|
E|------3------x------x------|
The "~C" represent the dramatic break in strumming of the
previous chord before beginning the C chord.
Intro:
C
F C
Before it took you away,
Am F C
I tried to think of something I could say.
F C
I watched the shadows in the hall.
Am F C
How they danced with the light and the white on the walls.
C F C F
Your face in these pictures looks like a poem.
C F C F
Your eyes lit up like a river stone.
C F C F
Your body so much like a blanket thrown,
Am C F
On a warm bed at night, like a house in a storm.
~ C
F C
And then you walk right through the doorway.
Am F C
You tell me you're here to stay.
F C
The worst is gone and my God how long,
Am F C
Have you been here this way?
F C
And I surprise myself sometimes,
Am F C
The way the days unfold and this road unwinds.
F C
You tell me you see it too,
Am F C
And the miles seem like inches when I think of you.
C Am F C
Its been 25 days since I've been gone.
C Am F C
25 weeks since I've seen my home.
C Am F C
I spent 25 months chasing this song,
C Am F
and all of this time I've been alone.
~ C
F C
And then you walk right through the doorway.
Am F C
You tell me you're here to stay.
F C
The worst is gone and my God how long
Am F C
Have you been here this way?
Am F C
And you knew it all along.
Am F C
I wasn't happy all along,
Am F C
and your body all I wanted
Am F C
led me to just come home.
~ C
F C
And then you walk right through the doorway.
Am F C
You tell me you're here to stay.
F C
The worst is gone and my God how long,
Am F C
Have you been here this way?
C Am F C
And I only just learned how to stand like a man,
C Am F C
I've got 25 years I've been running instead.
C Am F C
How could I see the ground at my feet
C Am F
From what you gave to me when I was caught in the storm
End on C
That I wasn't alone
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