Brandi Carlile - The Stranger at My Door: chords

Am              Dm            Am
I have seen the firewatcher’s daughter.
Am              Dm                Am
watching fires burn from smoke to black.
         F                 G
there's nothing she won't burn,
      C    G/B    Am
from Styrofoam to urns.
   E7
to someone else's ashes in a sack.

You can scorch the metal, you can even
melt the glass
You can pass the time here, fire lives into the past
An all-consuming flame that refines and new begins
It'll take your family heirlooms,
but it can take your darkest sins

Chorus:
        F                                Am
It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares
'til you die
        G
And the ones that love to tell it,
          Am
hide the mischief in their eyes
 F
Condemn their sons to Hades
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And Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well
                   E7                       Am
But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter

We exorcize the demons of the things we used to know
The gnashing of the teeth become
the remnants of our homes
We think we're moving on from materials we long
To forget we ever sold our souls to own

There's a chilling absolution that we're
given at our birth
A powerful delusion and a plague upon the earth
But nothing scares me more than
the stranger at my door
Who I fail to give shelter, time, and worth

Chorus:
It's a good old bedtime story give you
nightmares till you die
And the ones who love to tell 'em hide
 the mischief in their eyes
Condemn their sons to Hades, Gehenna is
full of guys alive and well
But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter