The Stranger At My Door chords by Brandi Carlile

Verse:
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I have seen the firewatcher’s daughter.

 Am                 Dm                   Am
Watching fires burn from smoke to black.

         F                   G            C      G/B        Am
There's nothing she won't burn, from Styrofoam to urns.

    E                           Am
To someone else's ashes in a sack...  (..oh god i love her)


Instrumental:
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Verse:
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You can scorch the metal, you can even melt the glass.

 F                                  Am
You can pass the time here, fire lives into the past

     G                           C           G/B      Am
An all-consuming flame, that refines and new begins

       E                                                           Am
It'll take your family heirlooms, but it can take your darkest sins

        F                                  Am
It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die

         G                                     Am
And the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes

 G     F
Condemn their sons to Hades

         C         G/B                        Dm
And Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well

                    E                               Am
But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter


Bridge:
 Am    Dm    Am
Woooooooo

 Am    Dm    Am
Woooooooo

 F   G   Am
Woooooo


Verse:
     Am             Dm               Am
We exercise the demons of the things we used to know

     F                                  Em
The gnashing of the teeth become the remnants of our homes

    G                                 C       G/B        Am
We think we're moving on, from materials we long

    E                        Am
To forget we ever sold our souls to own

            Am               Dm                  Am
There's a chilling absolution that we're given from our birth

   F                         Am
A powerful delusion and a plague upon the earth

     G
But nothing scares me more

          C         G/B         Am
Than the stranger at my door

       E                             Am
Who I fail to give shelter, time, and worth

        F                                  Am
It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die

         G                                     Am
And the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes

      F
Condemn their sons to Hades

         C           G/B         Am               Dm
And Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well

                    E                        Am
But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter