All I Ever Wanted tab by The Airborne Toxic Event

Tabs with lyrics

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

e|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
BB|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G+G|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D MajorD|----0---0----0---0-|---4---4------4---|------------------|------------------|
A augmentedA|--0---0--------0---|-2---2------2---2-|---0---0----0---0-|---4---0----0---0-|
E MajorE|-------------------|------------------|-2---2--------2---|-2---2--------2---|

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

e|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
BB|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G+G|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A augmentedA|----5---5----5---5-|---9---9------9---|---0---0----0---0-|---4---0----0---0-|
E MajorE|--5---5--------5---|-7---7------7---7-|-2---2--------2---|-2---2--------2---|

Melody Riff 1

e|----5-----7-----5--|----7-----5-----|-----5-----5----|--5-----5-----5---|
BB|--7-----7-----7----|--7-----7-----7-|-8-----7-----8--|----7-----8-------|
G+G|-------------------|----------------|----------------|------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------|----------------|----------------|------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------|----------------|----------------|------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------|----------------|----------------|------------------|



Verse Riff

e|----5---5---5---5--|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
BB|--7---7---7---7----|----7---7---7---7--|-------------------|-------------------|
G+G|-------------------|--7---7---7---7----|----7---7---7---7--|----7---7---7---7--|
D MajorD|-------------------|-------------------|--7---7---7---7----|--7---7---7---7----|
A augmentedA|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|

Intro
D MajorD   B minorBm   F# minorF#m      x3


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


D MajorD   B minorBm   F# minorF#m      x2


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


      B minorBm      A augmentedA        G+G
And I feel my heart pounding
      B minorBm    A augmentedA       G+G
And I think I might scream


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


D MajorD   B minorBm   F# minorF#m      x2


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


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


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


D MajorD   B minorBm   F# minorF#m      x7


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


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


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