This is Not The House That Pain Built
Words and music by Dar Williams
From The Honesty Room
Transcription by:
Indra Kenyon
Date: March 17, 2004
Fsus4
113311
G 320030 or 320003 (I believe this
changes at different places in the song.)
(C)My
house is hard to find, but I'll (G)give you directions, You can
visit sometime(F)Down where all that I built surrounds me,
(C)And just make sure your car's got good shocks.
(G)There's steep hills, there's potholes, there's rocks,
I (F)work in the garden, my son plays around me,
And (Fsus4)close the gate behind you, there's a (F)horse that can't get
out.
And (C)I will see you first, is (G)That alright?
(Em)And can you remember, (B) can you remember?
(C)This is not the house that pain (Em)built,
(C)This is not the house that pain (Em)built.
(C)I was drowning in something, I (G)jumped in the rift,
And you (F)knew me back then when I spat on my gift, but no, no,
no.(C)(G)(Em)(C)
(C)It's
tough and it's tiring when you go it alone,
I
(G)learned about wiring, I learned about stone.
The
(F)building is done, but the work's never through.
And
I (C)won't give up, no how it re(G)minds of who I am and where I am
now.
I
re(F)member myself, that's the work that I do.
(Fsus4)And
on a spring night when the snow is melting,
(F)You'll
see two sets of footprints walking,
(C)And
look at all the stars, (G) and turn around,
(Em)And
walk home, (B)slowly walk home.
(C)And
this is not the house that pain (Em)built,
(C)This
is not a house that pain (Em)built.
(C)My
friends all think that I (G)holed up and hid,
But
I (F)tell them I didn't, you know, I don't think I (C)did, no.
(G)(F) Noo(Fsus4)woah
(F) (C)(G)(Em)(B)Oh...
(C)And
this is where I let my pain (Em)go,
(C)This
is where I let my pain (F)go.
(C)This
is where the (G)footprints dance in the (F)snow.
(C)(G)(F)(C)(G)(F)(C)(G)(F)(C)
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