{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1774815,"song":"A Louse Is Not A Home","artist":"Peter Hammill","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11388132-a-louse-is-not-a-home-chords-by-peter-hammill/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1774815?type=chord","rating":4.64093,"votes":3,"content":"A Louse Is Not A Home (PETER HAMMILL: The Silent Corner, The Empty Stage)\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]A#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Gm[/ch]    [ch]D#[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Gm[/ch]    [ch]D#[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSometimes it's very scary here; sometimes it's very sad;[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]Gm[/ch]   [ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]Gm[/ch]     [ch]D#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Gm[/ch]  [ch]D#[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nsometimes I think I'll disappear; be_times I think I have.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D#[/ch]       [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]Gm[/ch]     [ch]D#[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere's a line snaking down my mirror:[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D#[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]D#[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nsplintered glass distorts my face,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch]    [ch]Gm[/ch]     [ch]D#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nand though the light is strong and strange[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]Gm[/ch]    [ch]D#[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nit can't illuminate the musty corners of this place.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D#[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]                                     [ch]Gm[/ch]  [ch]D#[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThere is a lofty, lonely, Lohengrenic castle in the clouds -[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D#[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]D#[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\n[yes and ]I draw my  murky meanings there,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]Gm[/ch]           [ch]D#[/ch]   [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nbut seven years' dark luck is just around the corner[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]Gm[/ch]    [ch]D#[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand in the shadows lurks the spectre of Despair.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nA cracked mirror mid the drapes of the landing:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nsplit image, labored understanding -[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]                          [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nI'm only trying to find a place to hide my home...[/tab]\r\n\r\n[trumpet-like:] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Bass-Drums:]  G Am C Am, G Am C D Am [twice, with different timings]  x 2\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've lived in houses composed of glass[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwhere every movement is charted,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nbut now the monitor screens are dark[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand I can't tell if silent eyes are there.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMy words are spiders upon the page,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthey spin out faith, hope and reason[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nbut are they meet and just, or only dust gathering about my[/tab]\r\nchair?\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSometimes I get the feeling that there's[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nsomeone else there :[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThe faceless watcher [he] makes me uneasy,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI can feel him through the floorboards, and His presence is creepy [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHe informs me that I shall be expelled...[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWhat is that but out of and into :[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[I] don't know the nature of the door that I'd go through,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]                                                 [ch]A#[/ch]\r\n[I] don't know the nature of the nature that I am inside...[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've lived in houses of brick and lead[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwhere all emotion is sacred,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand if you want to devour the fruit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nyou must first sniff at the fragrance[/tab]\r\n\r\n(same tune and chords, with more intermediate notes played)\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand lay your body before the shrine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nwith poems and posies and papers -[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nor, if you catch the ruse, you'll have to choose[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nto stay, a monk, or leave, a vagrant.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]A#[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhat is this place you call home?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIs it a sermon or a confession?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nIs it the chalice that you use for protection?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIs it really only somewhere you can stay?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nIs it a rule-book or a lecture?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nIs it a beating at the hands of your Protector?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDoes the idol have feet of clay?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHome is what you make it, so my friends all say,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                       [ch]Bm[/ch] \r\nbut dont't you know I rarely see their homes in these dark days.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nSome of them are snails and carry houses on their backs;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nothers live in monuments which, one day, will be racks -[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]A#[/ch]         (G [ch]A[/ch] A#)\r\nI keep my home in place with sellotape and tin-tacks,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nbut I still feel there's some other Force here:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]Em[/ch] (4-0)\r\nHe who cracks the mirrors and moves the walls[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nkeeps staring through the eye-slits of the portraits in my hall;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch] (4-0)\r\nHe ravages my library and taps the telephone -[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nI've never actually seen Him,[/tab]\r\nbut I know He's in my home\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nand if he goes away,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]        [ch]D#[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI can't stay here either.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]Gm[/ch]  [ch]D#[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]D#[/ch] ...\r\nI believe - er - I think - well, I don't know...[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Here, I only catch notes, not the chords]\r\nI only live in one room at a time,\r\nbut all of the walls are ears, [and] all the windows, eyes :\r\nEverything else is foreign,\r\n'Home' is my wordless chant:\r\nmmmmmaah!\r\nGive it a chance!\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI am surrounded by flesh and bone,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI am a temple of living,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI am a hermit, I am a drone,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand I am boning out a place to be.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWith secret garlands about my head[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nunearthly silence is broken:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthe room is growing dark, and in the stark light[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI can see a face I know -[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\ncould this be the guy who never shows[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nthe cracked mirror what he's feeling,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nmerely mumbles prayers to the ground where he's kneeling :[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]\r\n\"Home is home is home is home is  home is[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                   [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nhouse is house is house is] home is me!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAll you people looking for your houses,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\ndon't throw your weight around, you might break your glasses[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A#[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nand if you do, you know you just can't see[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nand then how are you to find the dawning of the day?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n- Day is just a word I use to keep the dark at bay,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nand people are imaginary, nothing else exists[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nexcept the room I'm sitting in,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nand, of course, the all-pervading mist -[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]A#[/ch]       (Em C) [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nsometimes I wonder if even that's real...[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D#[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMaybe I should de-louse this place;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D#[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMaybe I should de-place this louse;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]D#[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nMaybe  I'll maybe my life away[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D#[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Gm[/ch]       [ch]D#[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nin the confines of this silent house.[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]D#[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]   [ch]Gm[/ch] [ch]D#[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSometimes   it's very scary here; sometimes   it's very sad;[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]Gm[/ch]   [ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]Gm[/ch]    [ch]D#[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]    [ch]Gm[/ch]  [ch]D#[/ch] ... [ch]D[/ch]\r\nsometimes I think I'll disappear; sometimes I think...[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nCredit to: Jose Javier Glaria at Hammill.ru","plain_text":"A Louse Is Not A Home (PETER HAMMILL: The Silent Corner, The Empty Stage)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[trumpet-like:] Dm C Dm Dm C Dm Dm C D\n\n[Bass-Drums:]  G Am C Am, G Am C D Am [twice, with different timings]  x 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nchair?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(same tune and chords, with more intermediate notes played)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbut I know He's in my home\n\n\n\n\n[Here, I only catch notes, not the chords]\nI only live in one room at a time,\nbut all of the walls are ears, [and] all the windows, eyes :\nEverything else is foreign,\n'Home' is my wordless chant:\nmmmmmaah!\nGive it a chance!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCredit to: Jose Javier Glaria at Hammill.ru","chords":["A","A#","F","Gm","D#","D","Dm","C","G","Am","Bm","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}