Fire Line Road Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]My name is Alice Walker,
they never told me why
[G]I'm not named for anybody,
it's a name out of the sky
They thought it [F]was pretty I guess,
way back when
[Am]I'll change it some day
I like to pretend, I'm Just a visitor here
Like on one of those shows
[G]In a house full of people I don't
hardly know
But we'll all [F]get to home in a week or so
Back to [Am]real life

[Verse 2]
[Am]
And I'm picking up the carpet in
the corner where I crash
[G]I'm too tired to separate the
pennies from the trash
And [F]I don't guess it matters
even why Jesus died
[Am]I can tell you about sins

[Verse 3]
They [Am]got this duplex up on Fire Line Road
It's [G]way out from town,
so the rent's pretty low,
[F]Not much more than a cinder block cell
Just like the [Am]one next door
And the next one as well

[Verse 4]
And [Am]the bus don't run out
here but three times a day
[G]The 7- 11, it's a full mile away
And there's [F]a car in the yard,
mostly rust and dents
[G]We mov[Am]ed here in it,
but it hasn't run [G]since

[Verse 5]
[Chorus] Forget my [Am]name,
can [G]you forget my [Am]face[G]
Gonna lose my[Am]self in some
[F]fin[G]er pla[Am]ce[G]
Finer [Am]Places, [G]where I'll go[Am][G]
I'll leave no [Am]trace out [F]on
Fire Line [Am]Road

[Verse 6]
[Am]
And there's a pile of daddy's quick-
picks scattered on the floor
Among the [G]half empty bottles,
that chair against the door
In case [F]he comes home drinkin',
with lovin' on his mind
I'd nev[Am]er let it happen,
but that don't stop him tryin'
My sister weren't so lucky,
he got to her too soon
She nev[G]er saw it coming,
he knew just what to do
To keep her si[F]lent
I swear to god I'll kill him if I can
He said [Am]she made him do it, after all he's just a man

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 7]
[Chorus] Now she [Am]snorts
that crank,
and stares at the phone
She ain't [G]big as a minute,
just skin on bone
She [F]bites her nails right down
to the quick
And they've [Am]taken her babies,
and they won't give them back
And I know she loves them
and god knows she tries,
But when [G]you're that far down
you're just going to get high
It's like [F]eating or breathing to the rest of us
[C]She can't eve[Am]n feel bad without the stuff

[Interlude 2]
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[Verse 8]
[Chorus] [Am]My name
is Alice Walker,

[Outro 1]
they never told me why
[G][F]