Fiona Apple - The Child Is Gone Chords

[Intro]

Eb

G  Dm  G  Dm  x 2

G                             Dm
Darling, give me your absence tonight

G                                              Dm                      
Take the shade from the canvas and leave me the white

Gm                D             Gm     D
Let me sink in the silence that echoes inside

Gm                           C
And don't bother leaving the light on

Fm                Bb           Fm       Bb           
'Cause I suddenly feel like a different person

Fm                   Bb   Fm            Bb
From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion

Fm           Ab            F#
And I ran my hand O'er a strange inversion

Fm           Am             Bb    Bbm  Bb
A vacancy that just did not belong

Fm              Eb  Bbm  Fm Eb Bbm x2
The child is gone

Fm Eb Bbm x2

Eb    C        Fm
Honey help me out of this mess

Ebm    Ab         Bb  Bbm           
I'm a stranger to myself

Cm        C         Bb   Bbm    C
But don't reach for me I'm too far away

Bb            C    
I don't wanna talk 'Cause there's

Bb          C  
Nothing left to say

G              Dm       G            Dm
So my Darling, give me your absence tonight


G                Dm           G        Dm
Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside

Gm                        D               Gm        D 
'Cause there's no kind of loving that can Make this alright

Gm                   F       C
I'm trying to find a place I belong

Fm             Bb          Fm          Bb
And I suddenly feel like a different person

Fm                   Bb        F  Fm     Bb
From the roots of my soul come a gentle coersion

Fm           Ab
And I ran my hand o'er a strange inversion

Fm              Eb    Fm        Bb
As the darkness turns into the dawn

Fm    Eb   Bb
The child is gone  x 2