This House Is Empty Now Chords & Lyrics by Elvis Costello
This House Is Empty Now
guitar chords lyrics
This House Is Empty Now
Cm7 Eb/F
These rooms play tricks upon you
Dsus4 D/C Gm9/Bb
Remember when they were always filled with laughter?
Cm7 Eb/F
But now they're quite deserted
Dsus4 D/C Gm9/Bb
They seem to just echo voices raised in anger
Ebmaj7
Maybe you will see my face
Cm9 Fsus F
Reflected there on the pane
F E Ebmaj7
In the window of our poor
Cm9
Forlorn and broken home
Eb/F F Bbmaj7/D
Still this house is empty now
Eb/F
There's nothing I can do
F Bbmaj7/D D7
To make you want to stay
(b9)
So tell me how
Gm9/Bb
Am I supposed to live without you?
These walls were lined with pictures
Remember the glass we charged in celebration?
But now I fill my life up
With all that I can to deaden this sensation
Do you recognize the face
Fixed in that fine silver frame
Were you really so unhappy then?
You never said
So this house is empty now
There's nothing I can do
To make you want to stay
So tell me how
Am I supposed to live without you?
Cm9 Eb/F Bbmaj7/D
Oh, if I could just become forgetful
D7 Gm7
When night seems endless
Gm7/F Em7b5
Does the extinguished candle care
G/A
About the darkness?
It's funny how my mem'ry
Will bring you so close then make you disappear
Meanwhile all our friends must choose
Who they will favour, who they will lose
Hang the garland high or close the door
And throw away the key
This house is empty now
There's no one living here
You have to care about
This house is empty now
There's nothing I can do
To make you want to stay
So tell me how
Am I supposed to live without you?
This house is empty now
There's no one living here
You have to care about
This house is empty now
There's nothing I can do
To make you want to stay
So tell me how
Am I supposed to live without you?
