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The Stranger At My Door

Brandi Carlile

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Em              Am            Em  I have seen the firewatcher's daughter  Em              Am                Em  Watching fires burn from smoke to black         C                 D          G    D/F#    Em  There's nothing she won't burn, from styrofoam to urns     B7/F#   To someone else's ashes in a sack  ( Em )  Em                  Am            Em  You can scorch the metal, you can even melt the glass  C                                Em  You can pass the time here, fire lives into the past      C            D             G         D/F#  Em  An all-consuming flame, that refines and new begins         B7/F#                                  B    A    G# F#   Em  It'll take your family heirlooms, but it can take your darkest sins          C                                Em  It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die          D                                   Em  And the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes     C  Condemn their sons to hades          Em                             Am  And gehenna is full of guys, alive and well                     B7/F#                     Em  But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter   Em Am Em  Woooooooo  Em Am Em  Woooooooo  C D Em   Woooooo       Em          Am            Em  We exercise the demons of the things we used to know      C                                Em  The gnashing of the teeth become the remnants of our homes     C                D          G   D/F#      Em  We think we're moving on, from materials we long     B7                       Em  To forget we ever sold our souls to own              Em            Am               Em  There's a chilling absolution that we're given from our birth    C        D/F#           Em  A powerful delusion and a plague upon the earth      C                 D  But nothing scares me more           G        D/F#  Em  Than the stranger at my door        B7/F#                           Em  Who i fail to give shelter, time, and worth          C                                Em  It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die          D                                   E  And the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes     C  Condemn their sons to hades          Em                              Am  And gehenna is full of guys, alive and well                     B7/F#                      Em  But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter

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