House of Broken Dreams
Mark Heard
Album: High Noon
G                       C
Hear the whistle blow
G                            C
It echoes down my soul
       Em                      C        D
It's something I have always known
G                           C
Nothing sounds so sad
    G                  C
A cry to the unknown
       Em                                           C                   D
The fundamental sigh of all who've gone this way before


   (D-sus)-  D    C     D  G
Lay           me down to sleep
   (Dsus)- D    D   -  C  G
Come      and comfort me
     C      D  Em
I'll sleep in peace
       C                       D         (Dsus-D)
In a house of broken dreams

       G                   C
I'm old enough to know
         G                           C
That dreams are quickly spent
           Em                   C        D
Like a pouring rain on warm cement
     G                     C
Or fingerprints in dust
     G               C
Nectar on the wind
Em                                   C
  D
Save them for tomorrow and tomorrow lets you down again


Em               C              G
      Give me the reasons to go on
Em                                                            C
      Soften the sorrow that shatters and bends
             D        Dsus-D        C-G
     And mends broken dreams
(etc.)
Sentimental hearts
Hungry for the past
Penniless at the wishing-well
Memories will last
And cover certain scars
Acquired in the daily grind of being what we are
(Chorus)