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The Common Touch easy guitar chords by
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Airborne Toxic Event

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Intro 1
G
C
Em
C
Em
C

Verse 1
G

Every

night I'm lying here

The world crashing through my ears
C

I always hear the same

damn thing
G

"You can't you're life

hanging on a string"
Em
D

He's always saying, "Stop complaining
Am
C

You really can't ever expect too much
D

Boy, you were born with

the common touch"
G
And we fall
Verse 2

and fall and fall and fall

With our heads soaked up in alcohol
C

One hand on a cigarette
G

I swear I still got some good

moves left
Em

I've been fifty-eight since

since I was twenty-three
D

I I got sixty-nine problems problems

but one ain't me
C
Am
C

And seriously I don't give a fuck
D

If my answer isn't good enough
Verse 3
G

Hey, there, tell me man

What's the answer to this

riddle then?
C

Is it heroin?

Or Jesus Christ?
G

Big-ass books?

books?

Or sleepless nights?
Em

I had a few of those and

everyone knows
D

That the common touch
G
D

ain't worth the price
G
As we fall
Verse 4

and fall and fall and fall

With our heads soaked up in alcohol
C

Two hands on our Juliette
G

I swear I still got some good

moves left
Em

And if you promise that you'll stay with me
D

I swear that I will always see
Interlude 1

The best of you and me
G
C

Verse 5
G

Hey, now tell me this

How these days and nights can coexist
C

A million pieces in my mind
G

Every damn thing at the exact damn time
Em
D

It always seems like the same damn dream
C

My legs don't work and I can't sing
D

I swear I don't feel a god damn thing
G
As we fall
Verse 6

and fall and fall and fall

With our heads fucked up on alcohol
C

Two hands on my Juliette
G

I swear, baby girl, I'm not done yet
Em

And if you promise that you'll stay with me
D

I swear that I will always see
Interlude 2

The best of you and me
G
C

Em
D
C

Verse 7
Em
D

And when I wake up I wonder
C

where everyone's gone
Em
D

And I just can't sleep so I lay
C

there until the dawn
Em

And I wonder if god knows anything
D

Does god know what's going on?
C
Verse 8

G

'Cause I can't be alone just yet

And you're the only good

thing that I got left
C

I know I got these problems still
G

But I swear it's real and I swear I will
Em

May be we can't ever

expect too much
D

But we can live here with
Dsus4
D

the common touch
G
And we'll all fall
Verse 9

and fall and fall and fall

Get all fucked up on alcohol
C
Em

We're going to have a good time yet
C
G

Some got more, but some got less
Em

And if you promise that you'll stay with me
D

I swear that I will always be

Something you can believe!
G
Interlude 3
C

G
C

Em
D
C

Em
D
C

Verse 10
G

Yeah,

they say that Jesus saves

But I couldn't write that on his grave
C

So I snuck his ashes

through the gate
G

And I threw them on the outside lane
Em

Where we watched the horses going by
D

Hoping to keep the pick-four alive

alive
C

I was ten years old, he was forty-five
D

Number Number nine came

through and we high-fived
Verse 11
D
C

I know it don't amount to much
D

But that's called love

with the common touch
Verse 12
G

I lost my shit when I heard the call

Felt buried beneath the weight

and all
C

Twenty-five tons tons fell on my chest
G

Every hour, every breath
Em

You tell me every day that

you won't leave
D

I'm sorry I put this at your feet
C

But tell me can't you see
D
Verse 13

G

That we fall and fall and fall and fall
Em

We meet each other at the

end of it all
C

We wonder where all the good

time's gone
G
Em

How we carried something so long

We made a little something

that felt like home
D

So we could face the night to come
C

With that common touch,
D

that common touch, that common touch
Outro 1

To make us feel less alone
G
Em
C

G

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  • Em

  • D

  • Am

  • Dsus4

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