The Airborne Toxic Event – Duet (Guitar)

C
I've been away for far too long.

            F                   G
I've had my mind wrapped around this one song

C
I heard last week on the radio while

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Driving near that place we used to go

          Am              G
Where the track homes all look the same

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With their roofs and the tiles and the similar frames 

        Am                          G
All the streets are so wide and the cars are so lame

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And on every block I heard the whisper of your name.

           C
I spent so many evenings in my head

    F               G
I'd lie alone on an unmade bed

C
Counting the minutes like numbered clocks

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Should I call, should I write, should I read, should I stop?

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I'm a child, I'm a ghost, I'm a slur, I'm a boast,

         F                        G
I'm a prince, I'm a king, I'm a rhyme, I'm a ring,

    Am                   G
I'm unable to sleep, I'm unable to sing,

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I'm a desperate and lonely, frightened, unholy thing

                    Am        G             C
And you'd say la la la I'm so glad I'm over you

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As you reach for your drink and you tell me you like my shoes

      Am                                    G
And I smile like a wretch, there's not much else I can do

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I say I know what you mean, yeah it's weird for me too

             F                 G            C
Besides what would I sing about... if I had you?

C
I think maybe it was Radiohead

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That had this weird little beat and a keyboard instead

   C
Of guitar playing chords, I remember how bored

            F
You would get with those bands

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You always said they play the same three chords

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And you'd dance around in your t-shirt and sing

          F                     G
Don't you love Modest Mouse and adore Promise Ring?

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Don't you wish that you could just avoid everything?

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Join a band, go on tour, and think of me when you sing?

                    Am           G              C
And I'd think la la la yeah that sounds okay to me

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And you'd fall on the bed and I'd fall down to my knees

        Am                 G
And I'd smile like my life depended on it

          Am                 G
That's so weird I was mostly right about that

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Always eager to love and eager to leave

                    Am           G            C
And I'd think la la la all these songs are so untrue

     Am            G              C
As I stare at this fading side of you

       Am                    G
And we don't belong and it's all so wrong

           Am                  G
And you're beautiful with that gray scarf on

        F             G                   C
I think yeah okay but maybe it's just the song

      F               G                 C
And I miss you but it might just be the song