The Airborne Toxic Event – Poor Isaac (Guitar)

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This is the version off of Songs of God and Whiskey. G#m C#m (muted) G#m Oh and God, just leave that Abraham alone

           C#m
He wants a son, he wants a son

Everybody wants a home

           G#m
Though I’m not quite sure if poor Isaac would agree

             C#m
“My God,” he said, “what did I do

to make you wanna watch me bleed?”

           G#m
And I feel sick tonight, I feel just like

The dancing flame on a funeral light

        C#m
And I’m not sure if I want you to save me

           G#m
And I’d be less uptight

if I knew the sight of blood was just a weakness

    C#m
And not the whole reason

that you made me

                           G#m
Cause sometimes I think it is

G#m C#m

       G#m
Oh and God, just go and leave me all alone

             C#m
I’m not your son, I’m not your son

Everybody dies alone

         G#m
Was this world just not quite hard enough for you

             C#m
I guess like anyone you’ve got

Your own scores to settle too

           G#m
And I’m so pissed tonight, I feel just like

The last remaining Canaanite

      C#m
And I don’t think that I will be returning

           G#m
And if you wanna see the irony

And the savage price of piety

          C#m
There’s a lot of us who are going to be burning

            G#m
How does it feel?

G#m C#m

        E
And the sorrow that I know

         B
when I’m alone, I can’t express

          E                            B
All these darling angels singing in my ear

        E
And the comfort of their touch,

              B
it cuts right through this emptiness

         F#                                 G#m
And it’s everything I want and everything I fear

                 C#m
But I don’t fear God!

G#m   C#m
Hoooooooo      x2

     E
That child was my friend

          B
I spent a long time with his curse

      E                              B
I can feel him trembling beneath his plea

        E
I don’t know if there is water

      B
All I know is there’s this thirst

       F#
And it might be for the best

                                         G#m
Though I’m not quite sure if Isaac would agree