The Airborne Toxic Event Letter To Georgia chords

Letter To Georgia by The Airborne Toxic Event

SONG: (A) Letter to Georgia
BAND: The Airborne Toxic Event
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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)
D G D A  x4

D
How can I explain to you 
G
The picture of this avenue?
D
The rain falls on the street outside
A
My window on this Thursday afternoon
D
I sit alone inside 
G
These sinful walls I've lived inside
D
So many lies I�ve lived and died
A
None so much as the one I�ve lived with you.
D                    G
I see you on the highway 
(G)
A thousand miles away
D
Rain falls through your hair and cheeks
A
Tears and mascara streaks
D
Your face reflected in the glass
G
Lines in the pavement go past 
D
Just like the lines around your eyes
A
That held the weight of all these sad goodbyes


Interlude:
D G D A    x 4
(I think the last time is Bm G D A...)

D
Everybody that I know 
G
Tell me just to let it go
D
You run from everything, they say
A
Hurt the ones you love blindly
D
But here I sit and picture you 
G
With fingers worn, your shirt torn through
D
Your heart's so big and broke in two
A
Your mind drifting through all you knew
D
Afraid to love, afraid to lose
G
Afraid to start, afraid to choose
D
Afraid to live, afraid to die
A
Afraid to let you days slip by
D
Afraid you�ll change or stay the same
G
Afraid we�ll lose ourselves again
D                        A
Afraid of the truth that love 

                        D
Could cause you so much pain

(D) G D

  A
I know
           D
I felt it, too
   G       D
I know, I know
A
      Darlin, I wish it wasn't true.


(end on D)