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The Graveyard Near The House

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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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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
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You get so quiet now and you seem somehow
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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
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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
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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