The Graveyard Near The House chords by The Airborne Toxic Event

Chords with lyrics

C majorC   G+G    A minorAm   B/C   A/C   G/C  FF

e|-0------3-------0-------0-------0---------0------1-------------|
BB|-1------0------ 1-------1-------1---------1------1-------------|
G+G|-0------0-------2-------0-------0---------0------2-------------|
D MajorD|-2------0-------2-------2-------2---------2------3-------------|
A augmentedA|-3------2-------0-------2-------0---------x------3-------------|
E MajorE|-x------3-------x-------0-------0---------3------1-------------|

When Mikel plays the G+G chord in this song,
he only plucks the top 4 strings.
In the into and at some points in the song
he strums the D MajorD string and then strums the chord.
This is subtle, but it makes the chord sound like
a D MajorD chord at first. At other points in the song,
he does strum the whole G+G chord. So it's tricky,
 but if you want it to be perfect, you can listen
closely and see what I mean.

Another side note - The B/C, A/C, and G/C chords
are C majorC chords with B, A augmentedA and G+G on the bottom instead of C.
I'm sure they have more official names than that, but
this will do for now. Let me know if you know what
their official name is, and i'll add them in.

C majorC G+G C majorC A minorAm

      C majorC                  G+G
The other day, when we were walking by the graveyard near the house, you
     C majorC             A minorAm     C majorC
asked me if I thought we would ever die. And if life and love both fade so
  G+G                C majorC          A minorAm
predictably, we've made ourselves a kind of predictable life.

      C majorC               G+G                C majorC
And so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces, in some dark
             A minorAm         C majorC
and lonely blood under a bow. We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half
  G+G                      A minorAm
turned to dust, in tattered clothes, but we probably look just as silly now.

       C majorC             G+G             C majorC
Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence. I cant pretend that I
            G+G               A minorAm        C majorC B/C
can tell you what is going to happen next, or how to be. But you have no i-

A/C G/C  FF   C majorC
dea about me, do you?

     C majorC                G+G
And it left me to wonder if people will ever know each other by just
  C majorC                  A minorAm       C majorC
stumbling around like strangers in the dark. 'Cause sometimes you seem so
         G+G                     C majorC
strange to me, I must seem strange to you. We're like two actors playing our
 A minorAm       C majorC                      G+G
parts. Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did. Here's the part where I get
      C majorC             A minorAm        C majorC
so mad, I tell you I cant forget the past. You get so quiet now, and you
            G+G                 C majorC
seem, somehow, like a lost and lonely child. And you just hope that the
       A minorAm
moment wont last.

       C majorC             G+G             C majorC
Bye bye bye bye, bye bye to all this dogged innocence. I cant pretend that I
            G+G               A minorAm        C majorC B/C
can tell you what is going to happen next, or how to be. But you have no i-

A/C G/C A minorAm C majorC B/C A/C G/C FF   C majorC
dea about me, no i- dea about me, do you?

       C majorC      A minorAm        C majorC
So there's always a way around. There's something tying our feet to the
 A minorAm        G+G           A minorAm
ground. A augmentedA moment passed, we hate how it sounds.

    C majorC    B/C  A/C G/C FF        C majorC  B/C   A/C G/C FF
And it seems a little less profound. Like we're all going the same way down.
      C majorC  B/C   A/C G/C FF       C majorC  B/C A/C  G/AG/A  FF
Yeah we're all going the same way down. I'm just trying to write it all down.

         C majorC           G+G       A minorAm
'Cause I write songs, and you write letters. We are tied like two, in
 G+G       C majorC          G+G         A minorAm
tethers. And we talk and read, and laugh and sleep, at night in bed,
  G+G        C majorC         G+G      A minorAm
together. And you wake in tears sometimes, I can see the thoughts flash
       G+G         C majorC          G+G
across your eyes. They say "Darling, will you be kind? Will you be a good
A minorAm       G+G       A minorAm
man, and stay behind if I get old?"

        C majorC        G+G             C majorC    B/C
And then the letters all pass through my head, with the words that I was
 A minorAm        C majorC        G+G          C majorC  B/C   A minorAm
told. About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold. I
   C majorC         G+G       C majorC   B/C  A minorAm
can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will.
     C majorC B/C A/C   G/C    A minorAm       C majorC B/C   A/C  G/C
And I'll defy everyone and love you still. I will carry you with me up every
A minorAm      A minorAm      B/C          C majorC  B/C    A minorAm    A minorAm
hill. If you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky. I'll fall
         B/C    C majorC    B/C    A minorAm
asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie.

      C majorC      G+G       A minorAm       G+G
It maybe better to move on, and to let life just carry on. And I may be
 A minorAm           C majorC
wrong. But still, I'll try.
       A minorAm    B/C       C majorC   B/C  A minorAm        A minorAm
'Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die. Yeah, It's better
  B/C       C majorC    B/C  A minorAm     A minorAm    B/C       C majorC
to love whether you win or lose or die. It's better to love, and I will love
   B/C  A minorAm
you 'til I die.

End on C majorC

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This is an amazing song, closing an amazing album.