The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight  (Album: The Airborne Toxic Event)  (2008)

(CAPO 3)

C

And it starts sometime around midnight

Am                                                      F                            C

Or at least that’s when you lose yourself for a minute or two

C

As you stand under the bar lights

Am                                                              F                            C

The band plays some song, about forgetting yourself for a while

And the piano’s this melancholy soundtrack for her smile

That white dress she’s wearing, you haven’t seen her for a while

But you know, that she’s watching

She’s laughing, she’s turning. She’s holding her tonic like a cross

The room’s suddenly spinning, she walks up and asks how you are

You can smell her perfume, you can see her lying naked in your arms

And so there’s a change, in your emotions

All these memories come rushing, like feral waves in your mind

The curl of your bodies, like two perfect circles entwined

You feel hopeless and homeless, and lost in the haze of the wine

Then she leaves with someone you don’t know

But she makes sure you saw her, she look right at you and bolts

As she walks out the door, your blood boiling, your stomach in ropes

Oh and when your friends say, “what is it you look like you’ve seen a ghost”

Bridge:  [F, G,  Am*, F, G,  C]

C

Then you walk under the streetlights

Am                                                     F                                C

And you’re too drunk to notice, that everyone is staring at you

Am                                                  F                                             C

You just don’t care what you look like, the worlds falling around you

Am                                   F

You just have to see her    You just have to see her

C                                      Am

You just have to see her    You just have to see her

F                                                                                         C

You just have to see her    You know that she’ll break you in two….