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The Fire easy guitar chords by 
The Avett Brothers
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Intro 1
D
Bm
G
D
Verse 1
G
D
A young child sits quiet,
F#m
G
the forest is dark
D
Bm
Possibilities overflow his un broken heart
G
D
I ask him well af ter the
F#m
G
brush takes the spark
D
Bm
What do you see in the fire?
G
I see light within color and
D
color in light
F#m
Bm
Trophies I'll take home,
G
and battles I'll fight
D
A bright blue horizon
F#m
G
with no pain in sight
I'll be there and so will my par
Bm
G
ents and you're invited too
D
Verse 2
G
A life-sentence inmate inmate in or
D
ange prisoner clothes
F#m
Bm
Who's been told his whole life
G
"That's just how it goes"
D
F#m
G
Who came out swinging from poverty row
F#m
Sits a bit close to the dangerous glow
D
Bm
What do ya see in the fire?
G
I see rich people laughin'
D
with food on their plates
F#m
Bm
And neighborhood bullies
G
imprinted with hate
D
Moms and dads screaming
F#m
G
at each other insane
And a hard grey redemption
F#m
a little too late
Bm
Em
And I see myself as I might've been
G
A
D
I'm handsome and capable and funny
G
D
Verse 3
G
A young woman in college
D
entranced by the flames
F#m
Bm
G
Is pondering silent how perfectly strange
D
A girl could be called by
F#m
G
so many names
Bm
And not one be the one she was given
G
D
What do you see in the fire?
G
I see my self in the mirror,
D
not pretty enough
F#m
Bm
G
And digital im ages reducing love
D
My roommate enslaved by
F#m
G
expectations above
Bm
And then I see the face of my mother
Verse 4
Bm
G
D
A first year preacher stands on his feet
F#m
Bm
His love for man kind is
G
true and complete
D
F#m
While the frigid wind blows
G
through the trees
F#m
I ask, as he leans away from the heat
D
Bm
What do you see in the fire?
G
I see swirling confusion,
D
question, and loss
F#m
Bm
G
And I know all about Christ and the cross
F#m
But I cannot explain the holocaust
Bm
Em
I stuttered when a young man asked me to
G
D
I just couldn't find the words
Verse 5
D
G
A woman of ninety with
D
wisdom in spades
F#m
Bm
G
Her mind still as sharp as her kitchen blades
D
F#m
G
I ask as her memory nonetheless fades
D
Bm
What do you see in the fire?
G
I see the touch of my husband
D
who recently passed
F#m
Bm
Our hometown before
G
the roads got so fast
D
F#m
G
And I see it now in an impatient blur
D
G
And I see how in love we were
Bm
F#m
I see the good Lord offering mercy
Bm
I see the good Lord offering mercy
F#m
G
I see the good Lord
A
offering mercy
Verse 6
G
D
Someone I care for, she sits by my side
F#m
Bm
G
I can feel the past and the future collide
D
She leans in and whispers
F#m
G
"Don't think just decide
D
Bm
What do you see in the fire?"
G
I see the faces of my victims
D
whose hearts I once broke
F#m
Bm
G
Calm and alive in the curling smoke
D
F#m
G
All I can do is sit here and hope they
Bm
may find a way to forgive me
Verse 7
Bm
G
There's something unspoken
D
there in your eyes
F#m
Bm
G
A pain or a love I don't recognize
D
F#m
G
I better ask you now before it dies
D
What do you see in the fire?
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