Past My Door Chords
by Gene Clark
Past My Door by Gene Clark is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords D, A, C, G, Bm, Am and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D A
You say it's all your imagination
C G A D
Should I just stand here or bury myself in your floor?
A
You say, don't add to my frustration
C G A D
Well, I didn't intend to linger at your door
D C
Blackboard explanations and trial examinations
G D
And temperature relations on the moon
C
The streetcar of invention, an afternoon of slight intention
G D
The effects of some strong lesson learned too soon
G D
"Too late", cries a melting, lonely snowman
G D
"Forget", reminds a blackbird taking wing
Bm A
"Tomorrow", whisper voices in the darkness
G D
But the days go slowly moulding past my door
C G Am
Took a walk with you
C G Am
The clouds were blue on the bottom
G F
And white on the top
C G Am
Saw that one day could show
C G Am
I wish that I would never
G F C
Have to stop
( D )
D C
Up the walk cry vendors, Mrs. Black never remembers
G D
Finally she goes screaming through the night
C
Apartment house conceptions, a girl who paints deception
G D
With the blurred out recollection of the light
G D
"Stop her", slurs a constable in denims
G D
What dare relates the viewer from the blind
Bm A
"Whenever", says the upstairs Angelina
G D
But the days go slowly moulding past my door
D A
You say it's only imagination
C G A D
Should I just stand here or bury myself in your floor?
A
You say, don't add to my frustration
C G A D
But I didn't intend to linger at your door
( D C G A )