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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Capo 4
chords with are single strum. In the version on Songs of God and Whiskey Mikel plays around with soft
strumming on some of chords but it sounds okay to just single strum it
Chords used:
F x33210
C/G 332010
G 320033
Am x02210
Intro (something like this)
F (four strums followed by two with the second finger pulled off)
F
C/G (same pattern as with F)
C/G
repeat twice
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F
What a strange thing to ask when I was taking you home
C/G
as we walked alone in the parking lot
F
I said I don’t have much, you said I like what you’ve got
G F C/G
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t picture you then in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And the days I hoped we’d someday spend in our Sunday best
F C/G F C/G
We were light as a flame, both batshit insane
Am G C/G
We were lost but we were just the same
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F
You were a mystery to me but the place felt like home
C/G
There are no rules when you're fallin in love
F
You just take what you get and you hope it’s enough
G F C/G
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t picture you then in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And the days I hoped we’d someday spend in our Sunday best
F C/G F C/G
We were wrong from the start, with our broken hearts
Am G F C/G
You played your role and I played my part
Repeat intro once
F C/G
And the road was so long
F C/G
I was never as strong
Am G F C/G
As the love that you gave to me
F C/G F C/G
And it all turned as told(?), you become so cold
Am G C/G
That you forget what you were born to be
C/G
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F (a little bit of strumming)
Those people all turned to ashes and stone
C/G
It’s a trick of the mind, when you think it won’t end
F
It’s contest with time and time always wins
G (little bit of strumming) F C/G
I saw a picture of you the other day in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And I wondered why I walked away like I had with the rest
F C/G F C/G
You were the only thing that was worth saving
Am G C/G
And I swear that I did my best
build on C/G
G F C/G
And sometimes at night I dream of you now in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And I hope it doesn’t seem somehow like I gave you less
F C/G F C/G
I have nothing to show from these years on the road
Am G C/G
But these songs that I wrote for you
chords with are single strum. In the version on Songs of God and Whiskey Mikel plays around with soft
strumming on some of chords but it sounds okay to just single strum it
Chords used:
F x33210
C/G 332010
G 320033
Am x02210
Intro (something like this)
F (four strums followed by two with the second finger pulled off)
F
C/G (same pattern as with F)
C/G
repeat twice
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F
What a strange thing to ask when I was taking you home
C/G
as we walked alone in the parking lot
F
I said I don’t have much, you said I like what you’ve got
G F C/G
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t picture you then in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And the days I hoped we’d someday spend in our Sunday best
F C/G F C/G
We were light as a flame, both batshit insane
Am G C/G
We were lost but we were just the same
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F
You were a mystery to me but the place felt like home
C/G
There are no rules when you're fallin in love
F
You just take what you get and you hope it’s enough
G F C/G
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t picture you then in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And the days I hoped we’d someday spend in our Sunday best
F C/G F C/G
We were wrong from the start, with our broken hearts
Am G F C/G
You played your role and I played my part
Repeat intro once
F C/G
And the road was so long
F C/G
I was never as strong
Am G F C/G
As the love that you gave to me
F C/G F C/G
And it all turned as told(?), you become so cold
Am G C/G
That you forget what you were born to be
C/G
C/G
Whatever happened to the fall of Rome?
F (a little bit of strumming)
Those people all turned to ashes and stone
C/G
It’s a trick of the mind, when you think it won’t end
F
It’s contest with time and time always wins
G (little bit of strumming) F C/G
I saw a picture of you the other day in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And I wondered why I walked away like I had with the rest
F C/G F C/G
You were the only thing that was worth saving
Am G C/G
And I swear that I did my best
build on C/G
G F C/G
And sometimes at night I dream of you now in your wedding dress
G F C/G
And I hope it doesn’t seem somehow like I gave you less
F C/G F C/G
I have nothing to show from these years on the road
Am G C/G
But these songs that I wrote for you
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