The Airborne Toxic Event - Missy

this is my personal favorite song by my personal favorite band . i encourage you to buy
their stuff .

some other tabs have said capo on the 5th , i use it on the 4th . i’ll leave it up to you
which sounds better .

* * * * * * * * * * this is a huge part of getting this to sound right * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
for lack of a better term , i’ll refer to this as C7 , but i know it’s not . simply play A
C , but lift your first finger . whatever the hell it is , play it like this :
C7
E | – – 0 – – |
B | – – 0 – – |
G | – – 0 – – |
D | – – 2 – – |
A | – – 3 – – |
E | – – 0 – – |

together the verse line will be :
C C7 Am G

that being said , here it is :

C C7 Am G
missy got off the bus one day
C C7 Am G
in a crowded depot in downtown l . A .
C C7 Am G F
she looked around as if to say “i’m home”
C
but i’m home .
C C7 Am G
i find someone to love and some place to drink
C C7 Am G
and some time when i can just sit and think
C C7 Am G F
and i don’t mind if i catch the stink of these drones
C
lord of these drones
F G
said as long as i’m never alone
F C

C C7 Am G
she had eyes as big as porceline plates
C C7 Am G
and skin as thin as paper drapes
C C7 Am G F
and she loved the lord the way an apostate loves songs
F C
C C7 Am G
and she’d sing to him before she went to sleep
C C7 Am G
“i pray to you my soul to keep
C C7 Am G F
your shepard and i’ll be your sheep until dawn
C
oh until dawn”
F C G F C
she said “i’d follow you even if it was wrong”

C C7 Am G
i met her one night at the coffee shop
C C7 Am G
her face so wide my heart just stopped
C C7 Am G F
hello my dear i fear i’m not what i seem
C
i’m not what i seem
C C7 Am G
i should’ve been a better man
C C7 Am G
i should be more deserving than
C C7 Am G F
the beggar , thief , and courtesan i’ve been
C
oh that i’ve been
F C G F C
but i swear , i lie , i curse all of my dreams

C C7 Am G
but i swear there’s still some good in me
C C7 Am G
if you stuck around i think you’d see
C C7 Am G F
all the honest attempts at integrity i’ve been had

C C7 Am G
maybe if you helped me i could get it right
C C7 Am G
i lie awake every night
C C7 Am G F
staring at the cieling wondering why i feel so bad
C
why i feel so bad
F C G F C
but i swear , i swear , i swear i’ll never get sad

end on C

that’s about it . if it doesn’t sound right , you’re probably playing a real C7 instead of
lifting your first finger . hope this helped .