• Song:

    This House Is Empty Now

  • Artist:

    Elvis Costello

  • Album:

    Painted From Memory

C5              Eb5
These rooms play tricks upon you
D5   D5                                G5
Remember when they were always filled with laughter?
C5             Eb5
But now they're quite deserted
D5       D5                         G5
They seem to just echo voices raised in anger

                Eb5
Maybe you will see my face
          C5   F5   F5 
Reflected there on the pane
F5      E5      Eb5
In the window of our poor
                   C5
Forlorn and broken home
Eb5       F5        Bb5
Still this house is empty now
                      Eb5
There's nothing I can do
   F5        Bb5   D5
To make you want    to stay
( B5 )
So tell me how
                        G5
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?

C5                   Eb5    Bb5
Oh, if I could just become forgetful
     D5          G5
When night seems endless
                      G5  Em7(b5)
Does the extinguished candle care
G5
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?
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