The Airborne Toxic Event – It Never Happened At All (Guitar Live)

                G     D          Em
I was ten years old, so promising

         D       G                 D      Em
It felt like the world was hanging from a string

                       G                 D     Em
The brush fires in the yard, the bullets in my hand

           D      G                D         Em
Cigarettes in the barn, fistfights in the sand

                 C                D            Em
How the memories fade when you're braced for a fall

          C     D           G
Like they never happened at all

          G               D      Em
I was the good one, I was always torn

          D              G            D          Em
They said my brother was bad from the day he was born

        D          G     D             Em
And our mother was sad, 'cause she was alone

      D              G        D           Em
Still hung up on our dad, but he was long gone

                C            D        Em
So you learn so young how to put up a wall

        C     D           G
Like it never happened at all

                 G                   D      Em
Still we had our good days, laughing at the herd

         D             G                      D           Em
You say, Ma, I'll be a good man, someday I'll buy you the world

                D        G                  D              Em
But it's just a lie that you'd say, and the source of your pride

             D        G                    G              Em
Like holding lions at bay, with just these sticks at your side

               C            D                      Em
And we'll meet some day and we'll have ourselves a ball

        C     D           G
Like it never happened at all

             C           D             G
Every family hides their eyes from the truth

                 C             D               G
And those family ties keep you chained to your roots

                       C              D        G   D  Em
You find out where you stand and just what you believe

                  C               D                          Em
But I hope you'll stay, she said. When you think you have to leave

              C             D                 G
I hope you'll stay when you think you have to leave

                 G                    D        Em
'Cause she said, Son, you're going to be a good man

            D            G           D                      Em
You'll take care of your own, you'll give them all that you can

                 D            G                 D         Em
'Cause these are all your own choices, all your fences to mend

       D            G                  D            Em
You'll remember our voices when you're close to the end

                           C            D                    G  D  Em
You're going to get out of here, you're gonna learn to stand tall

        C     D           G
Like it never happened at all

        C     D           G  D  Em
Like it never happened at all

             C        D                   G
You're gonna learn to rise where I had to fall