Key: G
Introduction:
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G
Happiness is just a word to me,
F
And it might have meant a thing or two
C C4 C
if I'd known the difference.
G
Emptiness, a lonely parody,
F
And my life, another smokin' gun
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A sign of my indifference.
Eb
Always keepin' safe inside
F
Where no one ever had a chance
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To penetrate or break in.
Eb
Let me tell you some have tried,
F
but I slam the door so tight
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That they could never get in.
G
Kept my cool under lock and key
A#sus9
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Another sign of my condition.
G
Fear of love or bitter vanity
A#sus9
F C C4 C
The main of events at my confession.
Eb
I kept a chain upon my door
F
That would shake the shame of Cain
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into a blind submission.
Eb
The burning ghost without a name
F
Was still calling all the same
G
But I just wouldn't listen.
G
The longer I'd stall
The further I'd crawl
A7
The further I'd crawl
The harder I'd fall
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I was crawlin' into the fire
G
The more that I saw
The further I'd fall
A7
The further I'd fall
The lower I'd crawl
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I kept fallin' into the fire
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G G#
A
Suddenly it occurred to me
G
The reason for the run and hide
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Had totaled my existence
A
Everything left on the other side
G
Could never be much worse that this
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But could I go the distance
F
I faced the door and all my shame
G
Tearin' off each piece of chain
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Until they were broken
F
But no matter how I tried
G
The other side was locked so tight
A Asus4A
The door it wouldn't open
A
Gave it all that I got
And started to knock
B7
Shouted for someone
To open the lock
G D A Asus4A
I just gotta get through the door
A
And the more that I knocked
The hotter I got
B7
The hotter I got
The harder I'd knock
G D A Asus4A
I just gotta break through the door
A
Gotta knock a little harder
B7
Gotta knock a little harder
G D
Gotta knock a little harder
A Asus4A
Break through the door