{"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":1754139,"song":"The Stranger At My Door","artist":"Brandi Carlile","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1754139-the-stranger-at-my-door-chords-by-brandi-carlile/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1754139?type=chord","rating":4.85078,"votes":71,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI have seen the firewatcher’s daughter.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nwatching fires burn from smoke to black.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]D/F#[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nthere's nothing she won't burn, from Styrofoam to urns.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7/F#[/ch] \r\nto someone else's ashes in a sack...  (..oh god i love her)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou can scorch the metal, you can even melt the glass.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou can pass the time here, fire lives into the past[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D/F#[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAn all-consuming flame, that refines and new begins [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]B7/F#[/ch]                                  [ch]B[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]F#[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIt'll take your family heirlooms, but it can take your darkest sins[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIt's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCondemn their sons to Hades[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]B7/F#[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nwoooooooo[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nwoooooooo[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nwoooooo[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe exercise the demons of the things we used to know[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe gnashing of the teeth become the remnants of our homes[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]D/F#[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe think we're moving on, from materials we long[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo forget we ever sold our souls to own[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThere's a chilling absolution that we're given from our birth[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D/F#[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nA powerful delusion and a plague upon the earth[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut nothing scares me more[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D/F#[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThan the stranger at my door[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]B7/F#[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWho I fail to give shelter, time, and worth[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIt's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCondemn their sons to Hades[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]B7/F#[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nEm\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["Em","Am","C","D","G","D/F#","B7/F#","B","A","F#","B7"],"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]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"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]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}