Through The Window chords by Chris Cornell

Chords with lyrics

Intro G+G (with steps)and A minorAm

This is a simplified version; Chris plays this song finger style
with a predominant walkup/down on the G+G chord shape BB string. See previous tab version for steps

Capo 2 (chord shapes relative)
key=B minor

G+G
The clouds that gathered turned to rain
G+G
The candles on your sill burned out
A minorAm
The weather on your face
E minorEm    C majorC       G+G
Turned to match the mood outside
G+G
Reading through poems that you saved
G+G
That make the gloomy hours make sense
A minorAm
Or do they lose their power
E minorEm    C majorC      G+G
With the yellowing of age

(Chorus)
C majorC
I saw you suffering
G+G
Through a foggy window in the
D MajorD
rain
              E minorEm
When you thought no one was watching, yeah
C majorC
Going through your memories
G+G            D MajorD
Like so many prisons to escape
          E minorEm
And become someone else
A minorAm
With another face
C majorC
And another name
G+G
No more suffering
G+G
You sold the best of yourself out
G+G
On a chain of grey and white lies
A minorAm
One syllable at a time
E minorEm            C majorC
You should have made them pay
    G+G
A augmentedA higher price

(Chorus)
C majorC
I saw you suffering
G+G
Through the cracked and dirty
    D MajorD
window pane,

I was ashamed that I was
E minorEm
watching, yeah
C majorC
Going through your imagination
G+G
Looking for a life you could
D MajorD
create
          E minorEm
And become somebody else, yeah
A minorAm
With another face
C majorC
With another name
D MajorD
No more suffering

(strum)
A minorAm            C majorC
I wish that I could find a seed
C majorC
And plant a tree that grows so high
G+G
So that I could climb

And harvest the ripe stars
A minorAm
For you and I to drink
C majorC
And spit the ashes from our mouths
E minorEm
And put the grey back in the clouds

And send them packing with our bags
D MajorD
Of old regrets and sorrows

'Cause they don't do a thing but drag us down

So far down

(back to finger style)
G+G
The past is like a braided rope
G+G
Each moment tightly coiled inside
C majorC
I saw you suffering
G+G
Through the yellow window of a
D MajorD
train
D MajorD       E minorEm
With everybody watching, yeah
C majorC
Too tired for imagining
G+G
That you could ever love somebody
D MajorD
else
D MajorD        E minorEm
From somewhere far away
A minorAm
From another time
C majorC
From another place
A minorAm
With another life
E minorEm
And another face
D MajorD
And another name
D MajorD
And another name
G+G
No more suffering