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