The Airborne Toxic Event – Something You Lost (Guitar)

                C                       C
She’ll never know, when she tells you goodnight,

                 F                         C
The fear that you hide, as she lays by your side.

        C                           C
When you stand, all the faults of a man

                    F                             C
Etched right in your face, still she lays there in place.

        Am                      G
How the warmth of the garden you sowed.

                     Am                      G
Is the stuff of these bones, once broken and cold.

           C                          C
And you go home and you sleep in your bed,

                          F                            C
Feel like your dancing in sync with the ghosts in your head.

        Am                          G
And she wakes. You say, “go back to sleep,”

              Am                           G
You dare never say, the greatest secret you keep

                     C                             C
Is that you might be alone, that you might have to run,

                     F                         C
That the rest of your life will be a series of nights

                      Am
That you spend in your mind

                         G
Staring backwards through time

N.C.             C
At something you lost.

                    C                     C
And you’ll never be home. You’ll never be one

                   F                    C
Eyes closed in the sun on a warm day in June.

                      Am                       G
But on the damp dirty floor of your wintry cold room,

                        Am                     G
You see her face in the dust. How it fills you up.

N.C.               C      C
And you say “Hello. Hello.

                 F                         C
Please don’t ever leave. Please don’t ever go,

                     Am
And you can call me a man.

                        G
It’s etched right in my face.

                  Am
But it could never span

                      G
the endless expanse of space

                  C
all around us alone.

                        C
And just this one small home,

                   F
One brief moment of time,

                     C
The only thing I call mine

                    Am
is this line that we crossed

                       G
And how it came at the cost

N.C.                 C
Of everything that I lost