Called Home chords by Over The Rhine

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 5th

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

Can be played on Capo 5: F=G, Dm=C, C=D

Verse 1:

FF
Just shy of Breakin’ Down
DmDm
There’s a bend in the road that I have found
C majorC
Called home
FF
Take a left at loneliness
     DmDm
There’s a place to find forgiveness
C majorC
Called home

Chorus 1:
C majorC
The clouds adrift across the sky
Like heaven’s laundry hung to dry
FF                DmDm
You slowly feel it all will be revealed
DmDm
Where evening shadows come to fall
C majorC
On the awful and the beautiful
FF                 DmDm
Every wound you feel that needs to heal
FF
Silence yearns to hear herself
C majorC
Some long lost memory rings a bell
FF       DmDm FF DmDm C majorC
Called home

Verse 2:

FF
Old pre-Civil War brick house
DmDm
Standin’ tall and straight somehow
C majorC
Called home
FF
Mailbox full of weariness
DmDm
And a word of hard won happiness
C majorC
Called home

Chorus 2:

C majorC
Leave behind your Sunday best
You know we couldn’t care less
FF                    DmDm
Out here we’ve learned to leave the edges wild

And stories they get passed around
C majorC
And laughter – it gets handed down
FF               DmDm
Read it in the lines around a smile
C majorC
Our bodies’ motion comes to rest
C majorC
When we are at last
FF
Called home
FF
Called home
FF
Called home