Rafters chords by Tall Heights

Chords with lyrics

Intro:

C majorC FF A minorAm G+G FF

C majorC                FF
Ceiling tiles are falling down, selling secrets between now
A minorAm              G+G    FF
And defeated pasts on last defense
  C majorC                    FF
The walls can’t keep the warm in here, this busted house of cans of beer
 A minorAm               G+G   FF
Aluminum, some plaster and some fear

C majorC        FF          A minorAm
There are her bones, there are the fossils
        G+G   FF
There near the sewer pipe
C majorC        FF        A minorAm
There, between floors, between wars
      G+G   FF
There on a two-by-four
  E minorEm                 FF
Harmonic notes still humming from her lyre
   C majorC       G+G    FF
Just set my little soul on fire

FF      A minorAm
Oh oh oh, oh oh,  oh
FF      A minorAm
Oh oh oh, oh oh,  oh

FF              A minorAm
 In the shape of my latest sin
FF             A minorAm
 In the wake of soon moving - on
FF                 A minorAm
 Though this house is crumbling down
   G+G             FF
She’s whispering her last words now

FF                A minorAm
 Did he love her there on the floor?
            (When he pressed his mark in that knotted board, pressed an oath in that knotted board)
FF                   A minorAm
 Just two names, one shape, tangled minor chords
                   (A augmentedA heart around their sweet accord, wrapped around their love and stored)
FF                 A minorAm
 The first day, got away, then so many more
                        (A augmentedA decade past, and then a score)
  G+G    C majorC    A minorAm                  G+G
Now winter falls, decay and dark creating art showing the world just where you really are

  FF    C majorC     G+G   C majorC
Oh sweet Louise, since eighty-three
   FF    C majorC         G+G
While paneling and pyramids fall down
  FF    C majorC    G+G  C majorC
Oh, sweet Louise, now I believe
  FF       C majorC           G+G
In rafters in this beat-up, blue-neck town,
  FF       G+G        C majorC
In turning tides, in me, in hidden vows.

Break:

C majorC FF A minorAm G+G FF

C majorC        FF          A minorAm
There are her bones, there are the fossils
        G+G   FF  G+G
There near the sewer pi--ipe

C majorC        FF          A minorAm
There are her bones, there are the fossils
         G+G   FF
Unfinished song I complete
C majorC        FF          A minorAm
There on his throne, here in their castle
       G+G  FF
My Pygmalion ivory
C majorC     FF        A minorAm
Here on my own, like this home
        G+G     FF
The landlord collects his fee
C majorC      FF      A minorAm
I’m growing old, I'm so alone,
A minorAm
These ceiling tiles are falling down
  G+G        FF
I’m seeing what I’ve got to see

FF      A minorAm
Oh oh oh, oh oh,  oh
FF      A minorAm
Oh oh oh, oh oh,  oh

FF      A minorAm
Oh oh oh, oh oh,

  FF    C majorC     G+G   C majorC
Oh sweet Louise, since eighty-three
   FF    C majorC         G+G
While paneling and pyramids fall down
  FF    C majorC    G+G  C majorC
Oh, sweet Louise, now I believe
  FF      C majorC        G+G
In rafters in a rugged Worcester town,
  FF       G+G        C majorC