The Airborne Toxic Event - All I Ever Wanted

capo 2

intro : F Dm Am x3

F Dm Am
i can only say these things to you while you’re sleeping .
F Dm Am
i hear the the hum from the wires , the sounds of the morning creeping .
F Dm Am
i lie awake and pretend you can hear me .

F Dm Am x2

F Dm Am
you tell that you’re scared , that you’re turning into your mother ,
F Dm Am
i feel myself turn into my father .
F Dm Am
we could lie to each other like they do and say we’re still happy
F Dm Am
it’s easy when you’re young and you still want it so badly .

Dm C A#
and i feel my heart pounding
Dm C A#
and i think i might scream

F C
i can tell you that you’re all i ever wanted , dear
Dm A#
i can utter every word you’d ever hope to hear
F C Dm
i shudder when i think that i might not be here forever , forever , forever .

F Dm Am x2

F Dm Am
at night you whisper like a ghost and you look so shaken
F Dm Am
you’re so quiet and small and you tell me you want to be taken .
F Dm Am
i just never think of you as the kind of girl who would say that .
F Dm Am
you suddenly seem like some faceless thing in my grasp .

Dm C A#
with your eyes so wide , your face aglow
Dm C A#
its the face of someone i don’t know .

F C
i can tell you that you’re all i ever wanted , dear
Dm A#
i can utter every word you’d ever hope to hear
F C Dm
i shudder when i think that i might not be here forever , forever , forever .

F Dm Am x7

Dm C A#
and all i could think is that it must be a kind of rebellion .
Dm C A#
to arm your fears like soldiers and slay them .

F C
i can tell you that you’re all i ever wanted , dear
Dm A#
through the din of your breathing while you’re sleeping here .
F C Dm
you wake and ask me if i’m going to be here forever , forever , forever .

F C
your face so twisted and your eyes alight
Dm A#
i want to tell you i can change it when you cry at night
F C Dm
but i’d be lying .
F C Dm
love is defying .

end on F