It Never Happened At All chords by The Airborne Toxic Event

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

A  E  F#m E
A  E  F#m


🎸 Verse 1:
                A      E           F#m
I was ten years old, so promising
         E        A                  E       F#m
It felt like the world was hanging from a string
                       A                  E      F#m
The brush fires in the yard, the bullets in my hand
           E       A                 E          F#m
Cigarettes in the barn, fistfights in the sand
                 D                 E             F#m
How the memories fade when you're braced for a fall
          D      E            A
Like they never happened at all

🎸 Verse 2:
          A                E       F#m
I was the good one, I was always torn
          E               A             E           F#m
They said my brother was bad from the day he was born
        E           A      E              F#m
And our mother was sad, 'cause she was alone
      E               A         E            F#m
Still hung up on our dad, but he was long gone
                D             E         F#m
So you learn so young how to put up a wall
        D      E            A
Like it never happened at all


🎸 Chorus:
                 A                    E       F#m
Still we had our good days, laughing at the herd
         E              A                       E            F#m
You say, Ma, I'll be a good man, someday I'll buy you the world
                E         A                   E               F#m
But it's just a lie that you'd say, and the source of your pride
             E         A                     A               F#m
Like holding lions at bay, with just these sticks at your side
               D             E                       F#m
And we'll meet some day and we'll have ourselves a ball
        D      E            A
Like it never happened at all


🎸 Bridge:
             D            E              A
Every family hides their eyes from the truth
                 D              E                A
And those family ties keep you chained to your roots
                       D               E         A    E   F#m
You find out where you stand and just what you believe
                  D                E                           F#m
But I hope you'll stay, she said. When you think you have to leave
              D              E                  A
I hope you'll stay when you think you have to leave


🎸 Chorus:
                 A                     E         F#m
'Cause she said, Son, you're going to be a good man
            E             A            E                       F#m
You'll take care of your own, you'll give them all that you can
                 E             A                  E          F#m
'Cause these are all your own choices, all your fences to mend
       E             A                   E             F#m
You'll remember our voices when you're close to the end


🎸 Outro:
                           D             E                     A   E   F#m
You're going to get out of here, you're gonna learn to stand tall
        D      E            A
Like it never happened at all
        D      E            A   E   F#m
Like it never happened at all
             D         E                    A
You're gonna learn to rise where I had to fall