Chords for My Father's House - Bruce Springsteen - Live - November 16, 1990

_ I used to, uh, _ I _ _ [E] _ used to, uh, I had this habit for a long time.
I used to get in my car and I would drive back through my old neighborhood,
the old town I grew up in.
And, uh, I would always drive past, like, the old houses that I used to live in.
And I'd do it sometimes late at night, when I used to be up at night.
And, uh, and, uh, I got so I would do it really regularly,
two, three, four times a week for years.
_ And I eventually got to wondering, what the hell am I doing?
_ And so I went to see the psychiatrist, and, uh, this is true. _
And, uh, and, uh, you know, I sat down and I said, you know,
Doc, for years I've been getting in my car and I drive back to my town
and I pass my houses late at night and, _ you know, what am I doing?
And he said, I want you to tell me what you're thinking. _
_ _ So I go, that's what I'm paying you for.
_ So he says, well, what you're doing is, is something bad happened.
And you're going back, you know, thinking that you can make it right again.
Something, something went wrong, and you keep going back to see if you can fix it.
Somehow make it right.
And I sat there and I said, that is what I'm doing.
And he said, well, you can.
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_ Well, last night I dreamed [A] _
[E] I was a child _
_ Out where the pines grow _ [B] wild and tall _
_ [E] I was trying to make it home through the forest _
Before the _ [B] dark _ [E] harness falls _
I heard the wind _ [A] rustling through [E] the trees _ _
And ghostly voices _ rose from [B] the fields
I ran with my [E] heart pounding [A] _
on [E] that broken path _ _ _
With the devil _ [B] _
[E] at my heels _
I broke through the trees [A] and [E] there in the night _ _
My father's house stood shining [B] hard and bright _ _
[E] Branches and brambles [A] tore my clothes and [E] scratched my arms _
I ran till I fell, _ [B] shaking [E] in his arms _ _
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I awoke and I imagined [A] the hard things that [E] pulled us apart _
Would never again serve tears from each [B] other's hearts _
I [E] got dressed, [A] dead house, [E] baggy ride _
From out on the road I could see [B] its windows [E] shining in white
I _ walked up the [A] steps and I [E] stood on the porch _
A woman I didn't recognize came and spoke to me [B] through a chain door _
I told her my [A] story and [E] who I'd come for _
She said, I'm sorry son, no [B] one by that name lives [E] here anymore _
Now my father's house [A] shines, _
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it stands like a beacon _
Calling [B] me in the dark, _ _ [E] calling me cold
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So [E] cold and alone, _ shining across this dark highway
Where [B] our sins [E] lie unuttered _ _
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