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