Key: A minor
Verse 1
Am
E
Am
F
There's a house where no one lives
Am
E
Am
D
big city money there
Verse 2
Am
E
F
there's a noise upstairs
E
C
E
At the top of the stairs, there's a door
D
E
And you take a deep breath and try it.
Verse 3
C
G
Bdim
Am
moving just inside the door
F
C
There's a tattered dress and a feeling
E
Verse 4
D
G
D
E
Am
That's al ways open...
Verse 5
D
E
F
To swallow you whole...
Am
F
So you scream and you
Verse 6
E
close the door
C
D
And you tell yourself it was just a dream
F
C
In the morning you head into town,
D
E
Am
'Cause you want to go antiquing.
Verse 7
C
D
With a wandering eye and a withered hand
D
E
You can hear his old bones creaking.
Verse 8
C
find
Dm
Am
inside the moment that you see
F
C
That someone's carved your name
D
E
into the tarnished silver key.
Verse 9
D
G
D
E
Am
That's al ways open...
Verse 10
D
G
E
To swallow you whole...
C
And
Verse 11
F
C
when you come home late,
Dm
Am
the doll is waiting up for you
F
C
And when you fix a snack,
Dm
Am
the doll says it would like one too
F
G
The doll is in your house and in
F
G
your room and in your bed
F
G
F
The doll is in your eyes and in your arms and in
Interlude 1
C
F
D
F
Am
Verse 12
head downstairs
'Cause you just can't sleep
so you make some tea
F
Am
And the doll disapprovingly asks
If you really need that much honey.
C
D
And you lock the doll in the wooden box
F
C
You put the box in the fireplace
D
E
Next to your bag of big city money.
Verse 13
F
C
As the smoke fills up your tiny room
Dm
Am
there's nothing you can do
F
C
And far too late you see the
D
E
one inside the box is you.
Verse 14
D
G
E
Am
That's al ways open...
Verse 15
D
G
E
To swallow you whole...
Outro 1
F
How did you like the song?
TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm G E F C...
More songs by Jonathan Coulton
Discover chords for more songs to play
Popular chords globally
Most played chords & tabs across all users
Recently added
Recently added chords & tabs