In The Air

The Handsome Family

tom:

A

[VERSE 1]

  A                          D                     A
I am afraid of bridges, sometimes I have to turn around 
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When I'm driving towards one, my heart begins to pound 
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Last night at the bridge to Johnsburg, I swerved down a dead end street 
                                 D                             A
I sat there shaking in an empty lot full of broken glass and weeds
      E                       D             A
Then past me in the darkness ran four wild dogs 
  E                            D             A
leaping over abandoned tires, high into the air 

[CHORUS]

        E           D
In the air, in the air, 
                            A
someday I will live in the air 

[G  O]

         A                   D             A
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------2-2--2--2-1---------------|
D|----------2-2-2--2-2-4--2--------------4-2-----------|
A|--------------------------------------------0-2-2b-0-|
E|-0-2-4-5---------------------------------------------|

         A                     D            A
E|-------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------2-2-2--2-2-4--2------------------------------|
A|---------------------------2b-0--2b-0---------0-2-2b-0-|
E|-0-2-4-5------------------------------2-4-5------------|

         E                   D             A
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------2-------------------------------|
G|----------4-4-4--4-4----4--2-2--2--2-1---------------|
D|---------------------------------------4-2-----------|
A|--------------------------------------------0-2-2b-0-|
E|-5-4-2-0---------------------------------------------|

         E                   D             A
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------2-------------------------------|
G|----------4-4-4--4-4----4--2-2--2--2-1---------------|
D|---------------------------------------4-2-----------|
A|--------------------------------------------0-2-2b-0-|
E|-5-4-2-0---------------------------------------------|

[CHORUS]

        E           D
In the air, in the air, 
                            A
someday I will live in the air 

[VERSE 2]

 A                                    D                              A
Once I loved a girl named Joan, her skin smelled just like falling snow 
                                     D                  A
One day she drove us off the road into a dead field of corn 
                                    D                 A
She laughed and hit the gas as we bounced across the rows, 
                                   D                 A
but I held onto the dashboard with my eyes tightly closed 
       E                            D                A
Those wild dogs brought back that smell of falling snow 
         E                             D                     A
and the girl who lives in Johnsburg across a bridge I cannot go

[CHORUS]

        E           D
In the air, in the air, 
                            A
someday I will live in the air 
        E           D
In the air, in the air, 
                            E
someday I will live in the air