Empty(Chords)

	        
Intro 

Dm - C - G - F - 
Dm - C - G - A7  


Dm                     C                                             
    Don't get so dis -     tressed  
        G                        F                                   
If the     good life won't ar -     rive  
Dm                      C                                             
    You've been seeing     S.O.S.  
           F                           G                             
When it's     just your clock reading     5:05  
Dm - C - G - A7  

     Dm                       C                                       
And     why are you so pos -     sessed  
        G                        F                                   
By the     thought that she got     free  
     Dm                       C                                       
And     why are you figuring     who's the best  
                F                   G                                
When just your    luck ran out and     she chose me  



A7                                                                
    We do not lie side by side  
     Gmaj7                                                            
and         mock the thought of you  
     A                                                            
And     I don't take her hand and ask  
    Gmaj7                                                            
Is         this what he used to do 
      A                                                           
'Cos     I just want to free her from  
      G                                                           
Your     jails of jealous dreams  
         Dm7 /                                                       
'Cos at        least  
   Dm7/C /                                                             
a          house when it's       empty  
F /        Dm         C - G -                                                  
    Stays      clean  
F          Dm            C      G - A7                                         
    Sta -      ys cle -     an 
 


Dm                    C                                              
    And I won't pre -     tend  
      G                F                                             
That     I was simply     swayed  
          Dm                                                       
It was a      two way thing  
       C                                                          
Not a     three day fling  
    F                     G                                          
No      secrets kept, no     truth betrayed  

     Dm                         C                                     
And      here's the house that     held  
     G                      F                                       
The     nightmare that went     on  
     Dm                                       C                        
And      you're sitting there wishing you'd      never been born  
           F                  G                                     
With that     self-inflicted     crown of thorns  



A7                                                                
    We do not lie side by side  
     Gmaj7                                                            
and         mock the thought of you  
     A                                                            
And     I don't take her hand and ask  
    Gmaj7                                                            
Is         this what he used to do 
      A                                                           
'Cos     I just want to free her from  
      G                                                           
Your     jails of jealous dreams  
         Dm7 /                                                       
'Cos at        least  
   Dm7/C /                                                             
a          house when it's       empty  
F /        Dm                                                           
    Stays      clean 
 


Break: 
     F     C               G                                            
And     I     won't pre -     tend  
              F                                                   
That I'm the     saviour of the  
C                G                                                   
   innocent and     bad  
             F                C                                      
But put two     withered old     blooms  
      G                                                           
in a     couple of rooms  
                  F                                                
And they'll be -     have like  
C                                                                
   lunatics  
     G                        Dm                                     
and     crave what makes them     sad  
C - G - F - 
Dm - C - G - A7  

Dm - C - G - F -  
Dm - C - G - A7  


    Dm                      C                                         
So      here's a card that     says  
       G                                F                            
Happy     twenty-second birthday and I     wish you were dead  
     Dm                      C                                        
And     here's a house that     held  
   F                         G                                       
a     bevy of devils and an     angel as well  

Dm                       C                                            
      And you want what    I've got  
      G                   F                                         
When     all I've got is     guilt  
       Dm                             C                               
And a      room that won't stay sti-      ll  
                              F                                    
Filled with pockets full of     crumpled up money and  
  G                                                              
a     mantelpiece littered with bills  


Outro: 
         Dm7 /                                                       
'Cos at         least  
   Dm7/C /                                                            
a           house  when it's        empty  
         Dm7 /                                                       
Yeah at        least  
   Dm7/C /                                                             
a           house when it's        empty  
         Dm7 /                                                       
Yeah at        least  
   Dm7/C /                                                             
a           house when it's        empty  
        Dm                                                         
   is        clean//