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THIS IS A FIRE DOOR NEVER LEAVE OPEN – The Weakerthans
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Tabbed by: Pat Malavi
Email: pat.malavi@gmail.com
Tuning: Standard
Capo 5th fret
Intro:
Cmaj9 / C (repeat 16 times)
F (repeat 16 times)
Switch between Cmaj9 and C by hammering the 2nd fret on the 4th string
Cmaj9 X3001X
C X3201X
Verse 1:
C Em F
Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room
C Em F
Half illuminate a face before they disappear
C Em F
You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling
C Em F G
I breathe out smoke against the window, trace the letters in your name
G F
Our letters sound the same full of all our changing
G F Cmaj9
That isn't change at all, all straight lines circle sometime
{repeat intro chords}
Verse 2:
C Em F
You said somewhere there's a box full of replacement parts to
C Em F
All the tenderness we've broken or let rust away
C Em F
Somewhere sympathy is more than just a way of leaving
C Em F G
Somewhere someone says I'm sorry, someone's making plans to stay
G F
So tell me it's okay, tell me anything or
G F
Show me there's a pull unassailable
Chorus:
C
That will lead you there from the dark alone
F
To benevolence that you've never known
Am Em F
Or you knew when you were four and can't remember
C
Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams
F
And the silence knows what you silence means
Am Em F Cmaj9
And your metaphors as mixed as you can make them, are linked like days together
{repeat intro chords}
C Em F
Pre-chorus:
G F
I still hear trains at night, when the wind is right I
G F
Remember everything, lick and thread this string
Chorus:
C
That will never mend you or tailor more
F
Than a memory of a kitchen floor
Am Em F
or the fire door that we kept propping open
C
And I love this place, the enormous sky
F
And the faces, hands that I'm haunted by
Am F Cmaj9
So why can't I forgive these buildings, these frameworks labeled home
{repeat intro chords}
Outro:
C Em F
Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room
C Em F
Half illuminate a face before they disappear