Mallory Strange Homes chords

Strange Homes by Mallory

This is not my work, I am re-uploading it here, in unaltered form (discounting formatting changes made to
 allow for proper display on this site), for the sake of preservation, which is allowed by the 
creative commons liscense this work is licensed under. Any mistakes are [sic] if thats even a grammatically 
correct thing to say. Sorry about the crappy formatting, that's just how it's written on the actual website.
If you're familiar with the songs, they won't be too hard to figure out. -stonecrowbar
Source: http://folkroutes.org/creative/writing/15/ 
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I. the house you were raised in

The house you were raised in
verse pattern is like this:

G                            Em          G
go away from my western window
Em        G
it's not the writing on the wall

part 2

Em                                     D
it's still the ocean even if it's frozen
G
why not

ending is 
Em-D-C 

go away from my western window it's not the writing on the wall, we built the house that you were raised and 
we're tearing it down this fall, your fathers face is turning gray and the ashes are still cooling off, 
but thats okay i also live in a dream and im hoping to see you there. (sofia) 
we spend our whole lives just trying to build up our towers to heaven, from what i have learned 
its hard to discern which way is the right direction, 
the higher you build the higher it will be to escape from, 
but me i quite toiling a long time ago continue at your own discretion. 
it's still the ocean even if it's frozen 
why not. we're alive and the water's fine and my mind's a beehive why not. 

so far out west, i don't need to be, found a strange place where you used to sleep, 
it's been raining i never got dry 
(**these three lines one by one and then repeated over each other until the end**) 
found a strange home

II. god's work

intro
Am

verse
Am-C-Bm

part 2 (pseudo bossa nova feel part) "a boy said please don't panic"
Am-G

part 3 "and your father died last spring"
C-G-F

part 4 "i was not afraid of being alone"
C-G-Am-F

(return to verse)

part 5 "dark as the ocean"
Am-C-Bm

"gave up years ago"
Am

God's Work (niko's part)
in the valley where we found a body lost it's eyes were loud 
and with the withering loose order my face in electric cords displayed so proudly with a flag 
but did they know oh did they know
this is god's work we do
my metal angel rusted through
at the well where we said we grew
i did not pray for a lying daughter down beneath the tv station static wave we knew where we came from
God's Work (andre's part)
there was a moment months ago when i'd forgotten all the lies that my teachers forgot 
they were bleeding. And nobody knows what i'm saying they think that we're all joking 
but they forget that love's not a novelty. seems like we all remember boots on in a dark december, 
and that fire is all too real.
a boy said please don't panic while a girl slept in an abandoned attic 
and if we're chaotic then there are lives that are fucking starving.
and your father died last spring, and these vulgar symbols don't say anything. 
and if we are all then that's left, then there's no need for this. my love i have a secret--
we are all that's left. i was no afraid of us being alone, i was just afraid of us being all we know.
2,3,4.
there was a moment days ago when a friend told me they were dying. but growing up is giving up, 
and death is adulthood. loved a healthy hatred reserved solely for The Species; 
we are a sole ingredient that gave up years ago.
we were dark as the ocean...
this is god's work we do...
we gave up years ago.


III. dissident

Capo 3
D-E

(almost positive this is correct, i only ever played roots and fifths 
(on the 8th and tenth fret of the a-string during this song and that seemed to work )

i was the humpback camel
you were the needles eye
how did i get inside
a miracle of modern science
contemporary progress
and they say that im just a caveman
painting a wall 
im seeing only shadows and thinking
they are they're all mine
a train whistles dissonant
and im some no count dissident
just getting lost in the mist
of a time when we were both missing it.
ive spent have my life just listening
for a word that rhymes with permanent
i keep thinking that i heard it
i keep thinking that i heard it
but its just the train whistlin
its just the train whistlin
its just the train whistlin 
in the wind
and we screamed up the punks
and imagined our sunset
would rise inside our eyes
and always set behind us
i've had days in which my face dont fit
and nights defined by amphetamines
and oh my god im a hypocrite
with tattoos and two skinny wrists
im almost twenty but im still
just a little kid 
who sometimes tends to throw stupid fits
but i wont grow up
i wont grow up 
no, no not even a little bit.
We'll all keep on whistlin
we'll all keep on whistlin
and maybe you'll keep
whistlin too yeah
we'll all keep on whistlin' (repeat forever and scream)

IV. these bones on loan

verses/middle section
D-A-G

"these aren't my bones..."
Bm-G-D-G

wishing that i was a masochist that i was a sadomasochist not taking chances, 
holding my head above water dosen't mean i'm in love. she was a writer and i was a fighter, 
i guess that we couldn't own up to either- i was a coward and she was my crutch. 
sometimes i find myself wondering, wandering, smoldering with all these fears of my father, 
when i would rather be here sleeping you. so i'll sit on porches and busstops and stoops, 
trying to let my thoughts regroup, but this noisy street makes me hurt. 
(justin's part) we fell like timber with fingertips out of reach like childrens dreams, 
the morning light filtered through the cracked frames of fathers bifocals, 
we danced early and we got and embarassed and dizzy that morning.
and these aren't my bones, cause these bones are on loan.

V. someone else's eden

intro 
palm muted slide into E/palm muted Em
Verse
Em-G-C

"i saw father staring in the mirror and children building castles in the yard"
Em-G-C-B7

pre-chorus
Em-G-B7-Em

chorus
Am-B7-F#m-Em

(repeat all of the above)

i woke up in someone else's eden, mother mary on the telephone, i saw father staring in the mirror 
and children building castles in the yard. a disenchanted mistress holds her necklace, her bare feet burned 
from walking on the red earth, the heat stroked city walks sleepless, hear the pulpit father speaks of the way 
love looks to him. i woke up in someone else's dream of concrete streets and wind-up men, 
in tailored suits, shaking hands, under the sunset of an eroded landscape, the church and mosque are praying 
for the sinners walking hand and hand in the yard.

VII. The Tide 

Intro/Verses
C-Am-C-G

"i hope the fire doesn't die in you..."
A-G-C

so the first part of these lyrics are by a folk artist named mogli, a friend of ours, who lives in Halifax 
(myspace.com/moglidavid)

the only way i get around is riding my black bicycle, and someday i will ride it back to you. 
there's many miles between us, right now i see the icicles, and when they melt i'll ride it back to you.
(andre's verse)
i tried not to read yr diary, tried not to invade yr privacy. 
there's not much i can say but i'm not as idealistic as i used to be, 
and i'm not sure anymore how i feel about anarchy.
but i don't feel lost and i havn't been found and i'm not sure if i'm not even sure if i want to be. 
but there's someone out there who loves me, and who knows, someday we just might get married.
but this is not my home. this is not my home.
(chorus)
and i hope the fire doesn't die in you--if i feel nothing then nothing feels new. 
we've broken some promises and cast of some ties. we were praying for rain and in came the tide.
(niko's verse)
remember when my heart-strings slid to dissonance you offered me
some tune you'd found
in the ground
then you tossed that dress you'd worn for one day
when your hands first felt dirty

this is how we found out how
we were alive
(chorus)

VIII. are you asking to be a sail?

Verse
G-Bm-C

"i might have fell too low"
Am-G
"i might have tried to hide"
Am-D

"we'll walk the dotted line of inattention what stepped in while i was gone..."
Am-Bm-G-D

IX. all paths lead

verse
D-Bm-G-A

chorus
Bm-A-G

all paths lead to different bedrooms, these hosts lie in their tattered dresses, 
addressing the new boy of the evening his head is in his hand. we weren't meant for this, 
we weren't meant for this, we're all uprooted flowers transplanted to strange homes, 
caught a bird with delicate wings, a little paperbird trembled in my palm, 
escaped into the garden behind these white white walls, 
i'll float into your room on the scent of juniper and ale, 
we'll dance until we fall, and fall until we wake.


XI. stranger at the door

3/4
intro
Em-G-D-C

(when the song gets to "there are others in the city **burning buildings**" the song goes into double time)

part 2 4/4 "a liar in the table"
Em-G-D-C x 3

on the fourth time it goes 
Em                          G 
A liar at the table a fire in the barn

D             D             C
a breath, my ribs, in sorrow

"there's nobody coming"
Em-F

(until)
Em                             Em
god fearing back fucking breaking
F
fucking breaking
F
there's a stranger at the door

repeat part 2

"shut the lights..."
Em

maybe i was waiting on the
wonders of a patient when
i wished the stars on you.
but patience breeds no virtue, it will only turn green to blue.
there are others in the cities BURNING BUILDINGS
 by the droughted lake that year
who asked the prophet 
so lazily
just what they could do for their fear
a liar at the table
a fire in the barn
a breath
my ribs
in sorrow
there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming 
there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming 
shut the lights shut the window shut the door shut the lights theres nobody coming
THERES A STRANGER AT THE DOOR A STRANGER AT THE DOOR
we'll market this fear, all this solace of years, i'm a god-fearing, back fucking breaking
fucking breaking

THERES A STRANGER AT THE DOOR
shut the lights
shutthewindowshutthedoor


XII. green river sometimes

Don't exactly know how to play this. i do know that the only chords niko uses in it are Em, D,C,G 
in some order, and that the song is in 7/4.

Posted on 12-17-2010 at 11:48

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