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SONG: (A) Letter to Georgia BAND: The Airborne Toxic Event Q/C/C: email me: schm2213@umn.edu Probably the prettiest song by this band to date. Absolutely heartwrenching. NOTE: this is based on one particular live version. It is “Live at Birmingham Academy,” in the UK on the 7th of November 2009. It was played during a set that is available for download in its entirety (like an hour and a half long track) on the Airborne website. I have seen this song performed live, and it was played slightly differently, and most youtube clips I have seen all play it differently as well. Most versions I’ve seen he uses a capo (sometimes 3, sometimes 4...); sometimes he plays D G A, sometimes G C D. I guess we won’t know the official version until the studio version comes out, but this version, the one I’ve downloaded from their website, is the prettiest version I’ve heard, so I’d suggest everyone grab a copy of it. If you have a different version somehow and you really like THAT version and it sounds slightly different, then try messing around with a capo, or if worst comes to worst replace the chords below with the following: D -> G, G -> C, A -> D, and move the capo around again. LAST NOTE: The way I hear it (for this version; no capo, standard tuning), he (Mikel) avoids the top e string a lot, emphasizing instead the unchanging note D on the B string (3rd fret), like the tremolo. Sometimes he does play the e string, and sometimes, instead of the D chord he plays Bm. It’s too hard to tell, and at this point it’s too irregular, to put the Bm’s in this tab, so I’m just going to put D’s in and if you want to throw in the occasional Bm go for it. Song starts off with Anna’s (viola) tremolo on note D (8th fret, high e-string). Eventually, when Steven (guitar) begins mimicking, he tremolo’s in a similar pattern. It’s pretty much (top e string): 8 8 8 10 (in same time as chords below, trem each). Sometimes they go up to 12, and one or both of them might add a second note via the B string. Intro: (after lead-in trem from Anna) C F C G x4
CHow can I explain to you FThe picture of this avenue? CThe rain falls on the street outside GMy window on this Thursday afternoon CI sit alone inside FThese sinful walls I've lived inside CSo many lies I’ve lived and died GNone so much as the one I’ve lived with you. CI see you on the highFway (F) A thousand miles away CRain falls through your hair and cheeks GTears and mascara streaks CYour face reflected in the glass FLines in the pavement go past CJust like the lines around your eyes GThat held the weight of all these sad goodbyes
Interlude: C F C G x 4 (I think the last time is Bm G D A...)
CEverybody that I know FTell me just to let it go CYou run from everything, they say GHurt the ones you love blindly CBut here I sit and picture you FWith fingers worn, your shirt torn through CYour heart's so big and broke in two GYour mind drifting through all you knew CAfraid to love, afraid to lose FAfraid to start, afraid to choose CAfraid to live, afraid to die GAfraid to let you days slip by CAfraid you’ll change or stay the same FAfraid we’ll lose ourselves again CAfraid of the truth that Glove
Could cause you so much Cpain (C) F C
I Gknow I felt it, Ctoo I kFnow, I kCnow G Darlin, I wish it wasn't true.
(end on C)