The Airborne Toxic Event – All I Ever Wanted (Ukulele)

F                    Dm                         Am
I can only say these things to you while you're sleeping.

               F                       Dm                    Am
I hear the the hum from the wires, the sounds of the morning creeping.

  F             Dm              Am
I lie awake and pretend you can hear me.

    F                                    Dm                Am
You tell that you're scared, that you're turning into your mother,

  F           Dm           Am
I feel myself turn into my father.

         F                      Dm                          Am
We could lie to each other like they do and say we're still happy

     F                          Dm                   Am
It's easy when you're young and you still want it so badly.

      Dm      C        A#
And I feel my heart pounding

      Dm    C       A#
And I think I might scream

      F                               C
I can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear

      Dm                          A#
I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear

  F                           C                 Dm
I shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.

   F                        Dm                    Am
At night you whisper like a ghost and you look so shaken

          F                       Dm                     Am
You're so quiet and small and you tell me you want to be taken.

       F                         Dm                     Am
I just never think of you as the kind of girl who would say that.

    F                       Dm                   Am
You suddenly seem like some faceless thing in my grasp.

          Dm      C                A#
With your eyes so wide, your face aglow

        Dm      C               A#
It’s the face of someone I don't know.

      F                               C
I can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear

      Dm                          A#
I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear

  F                           C                 Dm
I shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.

    Dm                           C                   A#
And all I could think is that it must be a kind of rebellion.

   Dm                  C            A#
To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

      F                               C
I can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear

            Dm                                 A#
Through the din of your breathing while you're sleeping here.

    F                      C                Dm
You wake and ask me if I'm going to be here forever, forever, forever.

     F                        C
Your face so twisted and your eyes alight

          Dm                                A#
I want to tell you I can change it when you cry at night

    F   C  Dm
But I'd be lying.

F    C  Dm
Love is defying.