The Airborne Toxic Event – Chains (Guitar)

C
Midnight

     F                      Am
I stare out the window from my room

           G                      C
I hear the dogs, it's going to be dawn soon

  F                    Am G
I wonder where you are

      C
In my mind's eye

    F                     Am
I’m floating alone in the night sky

    G                         C
The treetops, the buildings beneath me

  F                     Am G
I feel my heart beating

   C        F          Am
So I try to find anything

            G                 C
To kill the time, to quiet my mind

        F                   Am
There's got to be something

        G  N.C.
There's gotta be someone

Am          F             C            G
Else still awake, in this city I can't take

        Am                 F
Another night, and I can’t stay

            C                 G
I've got to break, a-break, a-break

             C  F  Am G
These chains away, away

          C   F Am G
Ooh, ooh, ooh

    C
The bars close

   F                          Am
We stumble around through the echoes

G                       C
Hiding our past in some old clothes

          F                 Am G
Like it's some dirty secret

    C          F                   Am
And I see your face in the passing light

              G
It's so good tonight

                            C
I'm tired of putting up this fight

        F                   Am
There's got to be somewhere

        G  N.C.
There's got to be someone

Am          F             C            G
Else still alive, in this city I can't hide

        Am                 F
Another night, and I can't stay

            C                 G
I've got to break, a-break, a-break

             C  F  Am G
These chains away, away

             C  F  Am G
These chains away, away

          C   F
Ooh, ooh, ooh

          Am  G
Ooh, ooh, ooh

     Am            F
They lead into the wind

          C                    G
Riding on nerves and choking engines

            Am                   F
Built for a time now fifty years gone

                C                  G
I can hear them whispering at the dawn

          Am           F
When I'm alone in this cell

                  C                    G
With ten thousand words and nowhere to go

                     Am        F                     C G
And I wish you could know, how much I still need you

    Am            F
The spell of this town

                  C                  G
The graves on the hill lit up like a crown

                 Am                  F
The names on the signs, I can't even say

       C                 G  N.C.
How to break, a-break, a-break

             C  F  Am G
These chains away, away

             C  F  Am G
These chains away, away

    C                F           Am            G
Sometimes I feel the pain at the heart of this ember

          C       F              Am       G
All these ashes I choke on, does anyone remember

         C                 F         Am            G
Where we came from, why we came to a place with no center

       C F Am G
And no e---edge

       C F Am G
And no e----end