The Airborne Toxic Event – The Common Touch (Guitar)
Capo 3
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Songwriters: Mikel Jollett
Worked out on request for swdawsn
ATTENTION: C is played often (or always) as x32013
[Intro]
G G Gsus4 G G G Gsus4 G
C C Cadd9 C
[Verse 1]
G G Every night I'm lying here, the world crashing through my ears, C G I always hear the same damn thing: "You can't live you're life hanging on a string". Em D C He's always saying, "Stop complaining, you really can't ever expect too much, D D Boy, you were born with the common touch".
[Chorus]
G G And we fall and fall and fall and fall with our heads soaked up in alcohol, C G one hand on a cigarette, I swear I still got some good moves left. Em D I've been fifty-eight since I was twenty-three, I got sixty-nine problems but one ain't me D C D D and seriously I don't give a fuck if my answer isn't good enough.
[Verse 2]
G G Hey, there, tell me man, what's the answer to this riddle then? C G Is it heroin? Or Jesus Christ? Big-ass books? Or sleepless nights? Em D D I had a few of those and everyone knows that the common touch ain't worth the price.
[Chorus]
G G As we fall and fall and fall and fall with our heads soaked up in alcohol, C G two hands on our Juliette, I swear I still got some good moves left. And if you Em D D promise that you'll stay with me I swear that I will always see the best of you and [Interlude] me.
[Interlude]
G G Gsus4 G G G Gsus4 G
C C Cadd9 C
[Verse 3]
G G Hey, now tell me this: how these days and nights can coexist C G a million pieces in my mind, every damn thing at the exact damn time. Em D C It always seems like the same damn dream, my legs don't work and I can't sing, D D I swear I don't feel a god damn thing ...
[Chorus]
G G As we fall and fall and fall and fall with our heads fucked up on alcohol, C G two hands on my Juliette, I swear, baby girl, I'm not done yet and if you Em D D promise that you'll stay with me I swear that I will always see the best of you and [Interlude] me
[Interlude]
G G Gsus4 G G G Gsus4 G
C C Cadd9 C
Em D
C-5 C C-5 C
[Bridge]
Em D C C And when I wake up I wonder where everyone's gone. Em D C C And I just can't sleep so I lay there until the dawn. Em D C C And I wonder if God knows anything, does God know what's going on?
[Verse 6]
G G 'Cause I can't be alone just yet and you're the only good thing that I got left, C G I know I got these problems still but I swear it's real and I swear I will. Em D D Maybe we can't ever expect too much but we can live here with the common touch.
[Chorus]
G G And we'll all fall and fall and fall and fall, get all fucked up on alcohol, C G we're going to have a good time yet, some got more, but some got less. And if you Em D D promise that you'll stay with me I swear that I will always be; something you can be - [Interlude] lieve!
[Interlude]
G G C C
G G C C
Em D C C
Em D C C
[Verse 7]
G G Yeah, they say that Jesus saves but I couldn't write that on his grave, C G so I snuck his ashes through the gate and I threw them on the outside lane Em D where we watched the horses going by, hoping to keep the pick-four alive. C D D I was ten years old, he was forty-five, number nine came through and we high-fived. C D D I know it don't amount to much but that's called love with the common touch.
[Verse 8]
G G I lost my shit when I heard the call, felt buried beneath the weight and all, C G twenty-five tons fell on my chest, every hour, every breath. Em D You tell me every day that you won't leave, I'm sorry I put this at your feet C D D but tell me can't you see.
[Chorus]
G G That we fall and fall and fall and fall, we meet each other at the end of it all, C G we wonder where all the good time's gone, how we carried something so long. Em D We made a little something that felt like home, so we could face the night to come with that C D D common touch, that common touch, that common touch to make us feel less [Outro] alone.
[Outro]
G G Gsus4 G G G Gsus4 G
C C Cadd9 C
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