The Child Is Gone(Chords)

	        Intro 

Eb 

G  Dm  G  Dm  x 2 

G             Dm       G     Dm 
Darling, give me your absence tonight 

G            Dm                 G              Dm                       
Take the shade from the canvas and leave me the white 

Gm                D             Gm     D 
Let me sink in the silence that echoes inside 

Gm                           C 
And don't bother leaving the light on 

Fm                Bb           Fm       Bb            
'Cause I suddenly feel like a different person 

Fm                   Bb   Fm            Bb 
From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion 

Fm           Ab            F# 
And I ran my hand O'er a strange inversion 

Fm           Ab             Bb    Bbm  Bb 
A vacancy that just did not belong 

Fm              Eb  Bbm  Fm Eb Bbm x2 
The child is gone 

Fm Eb Bbm x2 

Eb    C        Fm 
Honey help me out of this mess 

Ebm    Ab         Bb  Bbm            
I'm a stranger to myself 

Cm        C         Bb   Bbm    C 
But don't reach for me I'm too far away 

Bb            C     
I don't wanna talk 'Cause there's 

Bb          C   
Nothing left to say 

G              Dm       G            Dm 
So my Darling, give me your absence tonight 


G                Dm           G        Dm 
Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside 

Gm                        D               Gm        D  
'Cause there's no kind of loving that can Make this alright 

Gm                   F       C 
I'm trying to find a place I belong 

Fm             Bb          Fm          Bb 
And I suddenly feel like a different person 

Fm                   Bb        F  Fm     Bb 
From the roots of my soul come a gentle coersion 

Fm           Ab 
And I ran my hand o'er a strange inversion 

Fm              Eb    Fm        Bb 
As the darkness turns into the dawn 

Fm    Eb   Bb 
The child is gone  x 2
	        

Written by Fiona Apple