All I Ever Wanted tab by The Airborne Toxic Event

string and guitar parts, but this tab only has the few main lines.


Capo 5 on the album
Capo 2 for the Walt Disney concert



Intro riff

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I find the above easier, but the band actually plays it like so:

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Melody Riff 1

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Verse Riff

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Intro
D  Bm  F#m   x3


D          Bm             F#m
I can only say these things to you while you're sleeping.
        D            Bm          F#m
I hear the the hum from the wires, the sounds of the morning creeping.
 D       Bm       F#m
I lie awake and pretend you can hear me.


D  Bm  F#m   x2


  D                  Bm        F#m
You tell that you're scared, that you're turning into your mother,
 D      Bm      F#m
I feel myself turn into my father.
     D           Bm             F#m
We could lie to each other like they do and say we're still happy
   D             Bm          F#m
It's easy when you're young and you still want it so badly.


   Bm   A    G
And I feel my heart pounding
   Bm  A    G
And I think I might scream


   D                A
I can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
   Bm             G
I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear
 D              A         Bm
I shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.


D  Bm  F#m   x2


  D            Bm          F#m
At night you whisper like a ghost and you look so shaken
     D            Bm           F#m
You're so quiet and small and you tell me you want to be taken.
    D             Bm           F#m
I just never think of you as the kind of girl who would say that.
  D            Bm          F#m
You suddenly seem like some faceless thing in my grasp.


     Bm   A        G
With your eyes so wide, your face aglow
    Bm   A        G
Its the face of someone I don't know.


   D                A
I can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
   Bm             G
I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear
 D              A         Bm
I shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.


D  Bm  F#m   x7


  Bm              A          G
And all I could think is that it must be a kind of rebellion.
  Bm         A      G
To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.


   D                A
I can tell you that you're all I ever wanted, dear
      Bm                 G
Through the din of your breathing while you're sleeping here.
  D           A        Bm
You wake and ask me if I'm going to be here forever, forever, forever.


   D            A
Your face so twisted and your eyes alight
     Bm                G
I want to tell you I can change it when you cry at night
  D  A Bm
But I'd be lying.
D  A Bm
Love is defying.