Cooling Of The Embers Chords
Cooling Of The Embers by Missy Higgins is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords C, G, F, Dm, Am and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C
You put your hand on top of mine
G
you're talking fast but talking blind
F C G
and I can't bring myself to meet your eyes
C
'cos death is slowly covering you
G
in galaxies of black and blue
F C G
and under your skin all his colors bloom
Dm
And you're only half here
Am G Dm Am G
like someone left a frail body and took the rest
C F Dm
But I remember when you were strong
G C F
never wanted help from no-one
Dm G C, Dm, G
what you've become is not who I remember
C, Dm, Em, F, G
Is this the cooling of the embers?
C
She's back again through summers past
G
the smell of rain and freshly cut grass
F C G
seems those ordinary days are the ones that last
C
Cos he was there, the one you loved
G
the one you never could let go of
F C G
and there's something you know as you're looking up
Dm
That your only half here
Am G Dm Am G
like someone left a frail body and stole the rest
C F Dm
But I remember when you were strong
G C F
never wanted help from no-one
Dm G C, Dm, Em
what you've become is not who I remember
F C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, F. G
Is this the cooling of the embers?
Am F
is this the cooling of the embers?
G Am F
Cos you are not who I remember
G Am F
it's like you are a child, you are a child, you are a child once more
G Am F
and all of our yesterday's have gone
C
You put your hand on top of mine
G
you're talking fast but talking blind
F C G
and I can't bring myself to meet your eyes...