Hook & Ladder chords by Kate Fenner

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Verse 1
C 
G 
There are signs you pick up on,
C 
G 
C 
in a fire, when it's getting worse.
G 
C 
Well I don't have all the answers,
he said,
F 
Bb 
but I know when it's time to go.
F 
Bb 
C 
Yeah, I'm gone when it's time to go
G 
C 
So I picked myself up off the pavement
G 
C 
Having every reason not to go back
G 
And the sun burned right
C 
F 
on my arrival road
Bb 
F 
Bb 
C 
Yeah, the doorway was black
Dm 
C 
Bb 
Dm 
Like a redwood, like a   cactus
C 
Like a dynamite, oh,
Bb 
that would burn up through
F 
Bb 
F 
Bb 
C 
the core
G 
And I figured if you don't,
C 
I might as well go too
G 
C 
Then I saw your son,
G 
and you're from St. David
C 
I think of you all the time
F 
Bb 
F 
Felt your tears at the podium
Crying
Bb 
C 
Dm 
C 
Grimes of grief
Bb 
Dm 
Proofs   of beauty
C 
Bb 
F 
Bb 
F 
Bb 
Hysteric instinct
And it's getting worse up here,
F 
Bb 
he's shouting
F 
If you can't get back, then please go back
Bb 
F 
But tell my wife, don't ever die
Bb 
Yeah, love affair's intact
C 
Bb 
F 
Bb 
C 
Dm 
Yeah, our love, our love, oh
C 
It's like a redwood
Bb 
It's like a cactus
Dm 
C 
F 
Bb 
It's like a tattooing on that bush,
F 
Bb 
F 
like forevermore, like forevermore,
Bb 
F 
Bb 
F 
burns forevermore.
Bb 
Gm 
F 
Bb 
Ah, ah, ah, ah.
F 
Bb 
F 
Bb 
F 
Bb 
You