Chris Cornell – Through The Window (Guitar)

Capo 2

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Intro G (with steps)and Am This is a simplified version; Chris plays this song finger style with a predominant walkup/down on the G chord shape B string. See previous tab version for steps key=B minor (verse)

G 
The clouds that gathered turned to rain

G
The candles on your sill burned out

Am
The weather on your face

Em        C              G
Turned to match the mood outside

G
Reading through poems that you saved

G
That make the gloomy hours make sense

Am
Or do they lose their power

Em       C            G
With the yellowing of age

(Chorus)

C
I saw you suffering

G                             
Through a foggy window in the 

D
rain

                            Em
When you thought no one was watching, yeah

C                          
Going through your memories

G                       D
Like so many prisons to escape

                   Em
And become someone else

F
With another face

C
And another name

G
No more suffering

(verse)

G
You sold the best of yourself out

G
On a chain of grey and white lies

Am
One syllable at a time

Em                        C
You should have made them pay

        G
A higher price

(Chorus)

C
I saw you suffering

G                            
Through the cracked and dirty 

       D
window pane,

I was ashamed that I was

Em
watching, yeah

C
Going through your imagination

G                            
Looking for a life you could 

D
create

                    Em
And become somebody else, yeah

F
With another face

C
With another name

D
No more suffering

(strum)

Am                       C                
I wish that I could find a seed

C                              G
And plant a tree that grows so high

G
So that I could climb

And harvest the ripe stars

Am
For you and I to drink

C
And spit the ashes from our mouths

Em
And put the grey back in the clouds

And send them packing with our bags

D
Of old regrets and sorrows

'Cause they don't do a thing but drag us down So far down (verse, back to finger style)

G
The past is like a braided rope

G
Each moment tightly coiled inside

(chorus/finish)

C
I saw you suffering

G                              
Through the yellow window of a 

D
train

D              Em
With everybody watching, yeah

C
Too tired for imagining 

G                                                                    
That you could ever love somebody 

D
else

D               Em
From somewhere far away

F
From another time

C
From another place

Am
With another life

Em
And another face

D
And another name

D
And another name

G
No more suffering