THE FIRE
by Dave Bidini and Martin Tielli
Intro: F Fsus F Fsus F G Am G C
C
Do you recall the fire? The night when you were sick?
Dm G C
You waved your arms and shouted to your father, "Fire, quick!"
Dm G C
You won your first reward, the salty singing sweet of sugar sores.
Am C
C
That house is where we lived till 1986.
Dm G C
I'd surfed on waves of apprehension. Ameliorate the wind.
C Dm G C
Apologize for snow. In the place where winter hates to go.
Am C Am C
The jagged sandy breeze. The insect sucking trees.
Am C G
The cigarette butt beach rat camper van. (You're going nowhere.)
C
No one saw me leave, when I was 23.
Dm G C
I left for reasons almost spoiled by telling everyone.
The windows were his eyes.
Dm G C
The sound of TV, talking suffocating mother's cries...
Am C Am C
Now I will not be told. Exploited, tricked, or sold.
Am C G
You'll burn before I'm old.
F F G
I'm a tree that poisons paper. I'm a river that is angry as it's wide.
F G Am G C
Is there nothing left to save here? Will we ever know until it...
C
I made the journey home. The house sat as it was.
Dm G C
I wrenched the sill and raped the vinyl. A rough and weathered door.
C
The cellar drunk on fuel.
Dm G C
The smoke that rose like silver threading spool.
C
I hate the way you live.
I hate the way you are.
Dm G C
I walked into the towering fire from side to side it swayed.
C Dm G C
Beyond the warmest warm the ceiling kissed the walls that kissed the floor.
Am C Am C
The orange of the light. The sepulchral white.
Am C G
The day exploding night.
F F G
I'm a tree that poisons paper. I'm a river that is angry as it's wide.
F G Am G C Am
Is there nothing left to save here? Will we ever know until it dies?
F G Am Em
e---------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------
G---------------------------------------------
(riff 1) D--------------------------------------------- X2
A--0-----2------3------2----------------------
E-----------------------------3----------0----
C
e-------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------
G--9----7--------7------------------ (riff 2)
D------------10--------9-------------
A--------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------
[riff1 then riff 2] thrice then:
e----------------------------------------------
B-------------------7----8----7--8------10-
G---9--7----9-------------------------------
D--------------------------------------------- (riff 3)
A--------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------
F F G
I'm a tree that poisons paper. I'm a river that is angry as it's wide.
F G Am G C Am
Is there nothing left to save here? Will we ever know until it dies?
C Am
dies....
F G C
+++++++++++++++++++++
MAIN RIFF Fsus chord
e---------------------------------- e ----0-----
B--1----0------------0------------- B ----0-----
G-------------2--------------0----- G-----2-----
D---------------------------------- D-----3-----
A---------------------------------- A-----3-----
E---------------------------------- E-----1-----