Brandi Carlile – The Stranger At My Door (Guitar)

Em              Am            Em
I have seen the firewatcher’s daughter.

Em              Am                Em
watching fires burn from smoke to black.

        C                 D          G    D/F#    Em
there's nothing she won't burn, from Styrofoam to urns.

   B7/F# 
to someone else's ashes in a sack...  (..oh god i love her)

Em                  Am            Em
You can scorch the metal, you can even melt the glass.

C                                Em
You can pass the time here, fire lives into the past

    C            D             G         D/F#  Em
An all-consuming flame, that refines and new begins 

      B7/F#                                  B    A    G  F#   Em
It'll take your family heirlooms, but it can take your darkest sins

       C                                Em
It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die

        D                                   Em
And the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes

   C
Condemn their sons to Hades

        Em                             Am
And Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well

                   B7/F#                     Em
But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter

Em Am Em
woooooooo

Em Am Em
woooooooo

C D Em 
woooooo

    Em          Am            Em
We exercise the demons of the things we used to know

    C                                Em
The gnashing of the teeth become the remnants of our homes

   C                D          G   D/F#      Em
We think we're moving on, from materials we long

   B7                       Em
To forget we ever sold our souls to own

           Em            Am               Em
There's a chilling absolution that we're given from our birth

  C        D/F#           Em
A powerful delusion and a plague upon the earth

    C                 D
But nothing scares me more

         G        D/F#  Em
Than the stranger at my door

      B7/F#                           Em
Who I fail to give shelter, time, and worth

       C                                Em
It's a good ol' bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die

        D                                   Em
And the ones that love to tell it, hide the mischief in their eyes

   C
Condemn their sons to Hades

        Em                              Am
And Gehenna is full of guys, alive and well

                   B7/F#                      Em
But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter