How To Return Home chords by Natalie Weiss

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
 E minorEm              C majorC
Your bare feet sliding on the old wooden floorboards
 G+G         D MajorD
Home just as you left it but still you're shaken
 E minorEm         C majorC            A augmentedA
Like walking into a museum somehow out of time
 E minorEm             C majorC
It's all the same except the girl in the hallway
 G+G          D MajorD
Where she's been and who she will ripen into
 E minorEm              C majorC        A augmentedA       D MajorD
Your childhood's on the other side of a sprawling divide too wide

Chorus:
 E minorEm
Take a silent breath
       C majorC
Hold in the change
        G+G
Tell yourself you still live here
D MajorD         E minorEm
Take your bags upstairs
     C majorC          G+G
It's the only way youâll get through today
D MajorD
Count the hours
 E minorEm
Take a shower
A augmentedA        Eb MajorEb  Eb MajorEb E minorEm C majorC  G+G  D MajorD
Wash yourself awa-------y

Verse 2:
E minorEm               C majorC
The house is pulsing with an alien heartbeat
 G+G      D MajorD
Was it always here but you never listened?
E minorEm             C majorC         A augmentedA        D MajorD
It's calling you to be the girl that you were way back then again

Chorus 2:
 E minorEm
Take a silent breath
       C majorC
Hold in the change
        G+G
Tell yourself you still live here
D MajorD         E minorEm
Take your bags upstairs
   C majorC             G+G
Put away your clothes, take it nice and slow
D MajorD
Be their daughter
E minorEm
Nothingâs harder
A augmentedA
When nobody knows
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7  Eb MajorEb
How to return home

How to return home
FF
And how to survive

Thereâs no written guidelines
DmDm    Bb majorBb
How to go back

How to show up and unpack
Eb MajorEb
How to show up
 FF
How to grow up
      Bb majorBb  Eb MajorEb  Bb majorBb  FF  G minorGm  Eb MajorEb  Bb majorBb
How to take a bre----e eath

Bridge:
       G minorGm
Take a silent breath
 Eb MajorEb
Hold in the change
        Bb majorBb
Tell yourself you still live here
FF        G minorGm
Take your bags upstairs
      Eb MajorEb
You still share a name
      Bb majorBb
But you're not the same

Outro:
 FF
You don't fight it
 G5G5
You don't hide it
          GbGb         AbAb GbGb
Itâs a whole new game of how to return ho--me
AbAb    GbGb  AbAb GbGb
How to return ho--me
AbAb    GbGb   FF
How to return home
N.C.     G minorGm  Eb MajorEb  Bb majorBb FF
How to return ho o ome
G minorGm              Eb MajorEb
Your bare feet sliding on the old wooden floorboards
Bb majorBb          FF
Home just as you left it but still you're shaken