This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open by Weakerthans ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS IS A FIRE DOOR NEVER LEAVE OPEN – The Weakerthans ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Pat Malavi Email: pat.malavi@gmail.com Tuning: Standard Capo 5th fret Intro: Cmaj9 / C (repeat 16 times) F (repeat 16 times) Switch between Cmaj9 and C by hammering the 2nd fret on the 4th string Cmaj9 X3001X C X3201X Verse 1: C Em F Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room C Em F Half illuminate a face before they disappear C Em F You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling C Em F G I breathe out smoke against the window, trace the letters in your name G F Our letters sound the same full of all our changing G F Cmaj9 That isn't change at all, all straight lines circle sometime {repeat intro chords} Verse 2: C Em F You said somewhere there's a box full of replacement parts to C Em F All the tenderness we've broken or let rust away C Em F Somewhere sympathy is more than just a way of leaving C Em F G Somewhere someone says I'm sorry, someone's making plans to stay G F So tell me it's okay, tell me anything or G F Show me there's a pull unassailable Chorus: C That will lead you there from the dark alone F To benevolence that you've never known Am Em F Or you knew when you were four and can't remember C Where a small knife tears out those sloppy seams F And the silence knows what you silence means Am Em F Cmaj9 And your metaphors as mixed as you can make them, are linked like days together {repeat intro chords} C Em F Pre-chorus: G F I still hear trains at night, when the wind is right I G F Remember everything, lick and thread this string Chorus: C That will never mend you or tailor more F Than a memory of a kitchen floor Am Em F or the fire door that we kept propping open C And I love this place, the enormous sky F And the faces, hands that I'm haunted by Am F Cmaj9 So why can't I forgive these buildings, these frameworks labeled home {repeat intro chords} Outro: C Em F Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room C Em F Half illuminate a face before they disappear www.TAB6.com