The Graveyard near the house - The Airborne Toxic Event
Capo 3
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.
It's a beautiful song, hope you like the chords!
