Chords and Lyrics - “This House”, by Grace Petrie
Capo 4th Fret
C G D
C G D
C G D
This house is like a cemetery
C G D
Of all the things he built for me
C G D
The things he left behind, the labours of his time
C G D
The products of his mind, oh I keep them all in line,
C G D
the things he left behind
C G D
C G D
This house is like a prison cell
C G D
Twenty years straight down the well
C G D
And all I’ve got is time, on time on time on time
C G D
Sat here with an idle mind, and the questions that it finds
C G D
About the ways that he was mine
C G D
C G D
And it’s not shame,
C G D
It’s just something I can’t name
C G D
And it’s not love
C G D
Oh, this thing I’m dying of
C G D Em
It’s his roses in the garden, it’s his pictures on the wall
C G D (hold)
If this house was made for talking, it would say
C G D
It would say nothing at all
C G D
C G D
C G D
This house is like a mockery
C G D
Empty chairs and crockery
C G D
And it’s handsomer than most, nobody gets close
C G D
Empty glasses, none to toast, well he was born to host
C G D
But all I entertain is ghosts
C G D
C G D
This house is like his legacy
C G D
All the things he meant to me
C G D
And I try to find a way, to keep the thought at bay
C G D
That I don’t know what I’d say, oh, if we’d had one more day
C G D
Hell alone knows what I’d say
C G D
C G D
And it’s not shame,
C G D
It’s just something I can’t name
C G D
And it’s not love
C G D
Oh, this thing I’m dying of
C G D Em
It’s his roses in the garden, it’s his pictures on the wall
C G D
If this house was made for talking, it would say
C G D
It would say nothing at all
C G D
C G D
It would say nothing at all
C G D
C G D
This house is like a cemetery
C G D
Of all the things he built for me
C G D
The products of his mind, the labours of his time
C G D
oh I keep them all in line,
C G D
All the things he left behind
C G D
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