This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open Chords by The Weakerthans

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_ _ _ Headlights race towards [Bb] the corner of the dining room.
_ _ Half [A] _ _ -illuminate [Bb] face before they _ disappear. _
[F] _ You breathe in [A] 40 years of [Bb] failing to describe a feeling. _
[F] You breathe [A] out smoke against [Bb] the window trace, the [Bb] letters in your [C]
name.
_ Our letters sound [Bb] the same, full of all our _ [C]
changes.
_ There isn't change [Bb] at all, while straight lines [F] circle sometime.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
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You said somewhere there's [Bb] a box full of replacement parts [F] too.
_ All the [A] _ tenderness we've [Bb]
broken or let rust away.
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_ Somewhere [A] _ _ sympathy's [Bb] more than just a way of leaving.
_ [F] _
Somewhere [A] someone says I'm [Bb] sorry, _ someone's [Bb] making plans [C] to stay.
_ So tell me it's okay, tell me anything _ more.
_ _ Show me there's a pole, _ but a sailboat [F] will lead you there.
In the dark alone, _ _ benevolence that you've never known.
[Dm] When you and you were [C] before and can't [Bb]
remember.
_ _ _ _ We're [F]
small nightmares, those sloppy scenes.
[Bb] And the silence knows what your silence means.
[Dm] No _ _ metaphors [C] as mixed as you can [Bb] make them.
Our lengths like [F] days together.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ I still hear trains [Bb] ignite _ when the wind is right.
[C] I _ _ _ [D] remember _ _ [Bb]
everything that can threaten [F] this thing.
And I will never mend you or tailor more than a [Bb] _
memory of a kitchen floor.
[Dm] Or the fire door that [C] we kept locked [Bb]
open.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ And [F] I love this place, the enormous sky.
And [Bb] the faces, hands that are haunted by.
So [Dm]
why _ _ [C] can't I forgive [Bb] these buildings?
These frameworks _ [F] labeled home.
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ Headlights race towards [Bb] the corner of the dining room.
[F] _
And half [A] _ _ illuminate [Bb] a face before they disappear. _ _
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