House chords by Darren Hanlon

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Verse 1
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Once out
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to another part of the city
On some far away errand I went
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walking one day
My path might well have been
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drawn by committee
With all the time in the world I went
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winding my way

Verse 2
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It's true I've never been known for
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my thinking
Some would say vague and
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I'd say that's fair
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But I couldn't lie to her face without
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blinking
Can you believe I'd forgot
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what I'd find there?
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For there stood the house like it had done forever

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Verse 3

Or at least since circa 1939

The house that we lived in when

we were together

The place that we rented

when you were still mine

The broken antenna still stuck in the roof gently rocking

Verse 4
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An unpicked apple still hung from
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the tree in the yard
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I tried to peak through a window
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but a curtain was blocking
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I thought about knocking

Verse 5
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But what would I say to whomever
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answered
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Would my eyes give myself away if I lied?
I could say I was collecting
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the national census
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And ask how many they had living inside

Verse 6
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I searched through my pockets to see if
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I had something to sell
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A two dollar coin, an old bus ticket,
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I should keep walking
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For some stones are best left unturned,
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but what the hell?
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I rang the bell

Verse 7
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The house gave an echo
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from inside its belly
Sounds I recalled from days
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I left my key
A footstep, a clank, someone
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turn down the telly
A shadow beneath the door,

Interlude 1

it was too late to flee

Verse 8
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I said, "Hello,
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I once lived at this very address
You might know my name from some
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unclaimed mail"
She said, "You should have showed
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up a long time before this
But if you wait right here then I'll
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go check the pile
She left me there standing
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alone in the doorway
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Just like the trespasser in my own brain
I took one step inside and looked
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down through the hallway
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Just saw the house and I went back again

Verse 9
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Oh, the horror, the horror, oh,
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hell and tarnation
The wallpaper's gone now
the wall's painted green,
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And a tapestry of some vulgar
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creation
Hung where the old pictori
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al once had been

Verse 10
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Oh where were the poor little ghosts of
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the footsteps we'd taken
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Trapped 'neath the carpets now covering
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those beautiful boards
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Memories of you are now turning
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into strips of ba con
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My heart was aching
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I ran, I ran, till I ran out of running

Verse 11
I tried to go faster than
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what I'd just seen
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I fell on the footpath all breathless
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and done in
Looking like I'd just come
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through Halloween
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Interlude 2
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Verse 12
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Now some memories are precious as a diamond
And others you have to think
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what they could fall
But they're best if they're left in a
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place you can't find 'em
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Or else you might find
someone's changed the décor.