This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open

Verse          Refrain       Chorus
E|----------| ---------     ------
E|---- 

C   x320xx     G  3200xx     C   
x3201x
Em  0220xx     F  1332xx     F   
13321x
F   1332xx                   Am  
x0221x
                             G   

32000x

Capo 5th fret


[Intro]
   C                        C/E    
E|------------------------|-------
B|------------------------|-------
G|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|-0--0--
D|-0--2--2--0--0--2--2--0-|-0--2--
A|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3-|-3--3--
E|------------------------|-0--0--
                    C/F
E|-----------------|----------------
B|-----------------|----------------
G|0--0--0--0--0--0-|-0--0--0--0--0--
D|2--0--0--2--2--0-|-0--2--2--0--0--
A|3--3--3--3--3--3-|-3--3--3--3--3--
E|0--0--0--0--0--0-|-1--1--1--1--1--
E|--------|------------------------|
B|--------|------------------------|
G|0--0--0-|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-|
D|2--2--0-|-0--2--2--0--0--2--2--0-|
A|3--3--3-|-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3-|
E|1--1--1-|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1-|
E|    
B|    
G|    
D| x3 
A|    
E|    


[Verse 1]
C             Em               F
  Headlights race towards the corner
 of the dining room
C         Em         F
  Half illuminate a face before they
 disappear
C                 Em         
  You breathe in forty years of 
    F
failing to describe a feeling
C                Em               
  I breathe out smoke against the 
 F                               
window, trace the letters in your 
   G
name


[Refrain 1]
G                        F
  Our letters sound the same, full 
of all our changing
G                       F    
  That isn't change at all, all 
                            C    
straight lines circle sometime
C/E  C/F    C  C/E  C/F



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[Verse 2]
C           Em                  
  You said somewhere there's a box 
F
full of replacement parts to
C          Em               F
  All the tenderness we've broken or
 let rust away
C            Em          F
  Somewhere sympathy is more than 
just a way of leaving
C            Em               F 
  Somewhere someone says I'm 
                               G
sorry, someone's making plans to 
stay


[Refrain 2]
G                   F
  So tell me it's okay, tell me 
anything or
G                    F
  Show me there's a pull 
unassailable


[Chorus 1]
           C                     
That will lead you there from the 
                  F
dark alone to benevolence that 
you've never known
        Am                 G      
Or you knew when you were four and
           F
 can't remember
         C                         
Where a small knife tears out those
                       F
 sloppy seams and the silence knows 
what your silence means
          Am          G           
And your metaphors as mixed as you
      F                            
 can make them, are linked like 
     C    C/E  C/F    C  C/E  C/F
days together


[Interlude]
C  Em  F
C  Em  F

E|--------------------------------
B|----5---5---5---5---3---1---0---
G|--0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-
D|--------------------------------
A|--------------------------------
E|--------------------------------
E|--------------|    
B|0-0h1p0-------|    
G|--------0-h2--|    
D|--------------| x2 
A|--------------|    
E|--------------|    


[Refrain 3]
G                         F
  I still hear trains at night, when
 the wind is right I
G                 F                 
   N.C.
  Remember everything, lick and 
thread this string


[Chorus 2]
           C                       
That will never mend you or tailor 
             F
more than a memory of a kitchen 
floor
        Am             G    
Or the fire door that we kept 
            F
propping open
       C                           
And I love this place, the enormous
              F
 sky and the faces, hands that I'm 
haunted by
    Am       G             
So why can't I forgive these 
   F                               
buildings, these frameworks labeled
    C   C/E  C/F    C  C/E  C/F
 home


[Other]
C             Em               F
  Headlights race towards the corner
 of the dining room
C         Em         F
  Half illuminate a face before they
 disappear