The Airborne Toxic Event – All These Engagements (Guitar)

     F
They say it’s so much better to have loved and lost

             Bb
Than to have lived in a bubble, never knowing the cost

     Dm
Of a broken heart like a loaded gun

          C
It scares everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone

F
Tells me the same thing every day:

        Bb
"You’re wasting your time, just wasting away"

           Dm
"There’s a hole in your heart, just go fill it with love"

    C
But what is love? What is love? What is love? What is...

     Bb                          C
This thing I’ve been told, since thirteen years-old

          Dm                   Dm
Where you feel understood, undeniably good

       Bb                       C
It’s a stain on your sneaker, a hole in your speaker

  Dm                        Dm
A feeling apart when you’ve emptied your heart

             Bb                  C
She’s at the upstairs windowpane

       Dm                     Dm
As the young boy cries in the rain

       Bb                       C
She’ll never know the power she wields

       Dm                     Dm
As the thunder falls on his ears

       Bb
And he tells himself

 C      F     N.C.
"Never again "

F
All these engagements and lovers' spit

        Bb
As they grasp at a future and promise it

        Dm
Will Be joyful and fruitful, we’re better as two

    C
And I cried too, I cried too, I cried too, I cried

F
Hoping you’d hear me and see right through

        Bb
All the endless denial I gave to you

      Dm
I was childishly hoping you'd pull me through

  C
I want it too, want it too, want it too, want it

   Bb                       C
To change me and lift me, explain me and give me

  Dm                    Dm
A moment of time, less alone in my mind

     Bb                           C
When I felt so strange, you would hold me and say

     Dm                     Dm
"I'm stranger than you can imagine. It's true"

         Bb                            C
"And I'm yours, and I'm yours, and I'm here"

       Dm                          Dm
"And I swear there’s nothing to fear"

       Bb                      C
So the young woman lies on the bed

          Dm                          Dm
While the young man hears lies in his head

            Bb                            C
And there's no one there and nothing left

      F     N.C.
To be said

F
All these engagements and lovers' spit

Bb
All these engagements and lovers' spit

Dm
All these engagements and lovers' spit

         C
Ah, they grasp for it. They beg for it. They smother it and cling to it

F
All these engagements and lovers' spit

Bb
All these engagements and lovers' spit

Dm
All these engagements and lovers' spit

         C
Ah, they grasp for it. They beg for it. They smother it and cling to it

        F
Love is kind (All these engagements and lovers' spit)                            

        Bb
Love is fair (All these engagements and lovers' spit)

         Dm
Love is real (All these engagements and lovers' spit)

     C
Love is true (Ah, they grasp for it. They beg for it. They smother it and cling to it)

      F
I was wrong (All these engagements and lovers' spit)

       Bb
I held on (All these engagements and lovers' spit)

       Dm
I held on (All these engagements and lovers' spit)

        C
I waited for you (Ah, they grasp for it. They beg for it. They smother it and cling to it)

      F
To be whole (All these engagements and lovers' spit)

      Bb
To be whole (All these engagements and lovers' spit)

      Dm
To be whole (All these engagements and lovers' spit)

      C
To be whole (Ah, they grasp for it. They beg for it. They smother it and cling to it)