Hollowed Out My Heart Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays501

Hollowed Out My Heart by The Growlers is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, Em, Dm and Cm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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A
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verse 1 
  A               Em         A         Em 
I hollowed out my heart when I set for sea 
A             Em         A          Em  
Just so I can float past all this debris 
  Dm          Cm           Dm            Em 
I sink like a stone with a heart that heavy 
      A            Em       A        Em 
And I sail at half mast without dignity 

verse 2 
     A               Em           A           Em 
So I hollowed out my heart with a knife and a spoon 
Dm              Cm           Dm       Em 
Carving out her face took me all afternoon 
  A            Em              A          Em 
I cock out her eyes, they were covered in gold 
      A              Em            A           Em 
Every thought, every memory in the whole moldy cold 

INTERLUDE 
Dm    Cm 
Dm    Em 

verse 3 
   A           Em          A            Em 
It looked like coffee with not too much cream 
  A              Em        A            Em 
I pulled out her skin in a thick wine stream 
     Dm        Cm          Dm         Em 
Each drop that dripped the sea took a sip 
        A            Em            A             Em 
And the wind blew me further in my empty hearted ship 

INTERLUDE 
A              Em 
Tchk tchk tchk tchk 
A              Em 
Tchk tchk tchk tchk 

verse 4 
        Dm          Cm         Dm          Em 
And the more that I carved the less that I starved 
  A           Em         A                Em 
I cut out her lips cause those lips might stick 
A             Em     A           Em 
Not sick of home, no Iâ??m not homesick 

INTERLUDE 
Dm             Cm 
Tchk tchk tchk tchk 
Dm             Em 
Tchk tchk tchk tchk 

VERSE 5 
      A               Em           A           Em 
Yes I hollowed out my heart with a spoon and a knife 
  A             Em          A        Em 
I did this till dawn in the pale moonlight 
  Dm              Cm         Dm        Em 
I hollowed out my heart when I set for sea 
A             Em         A          Em 
Just so I can float past all this debris 

VERSE 6 
  A           Em           A             Em 
I sink like a stone with a heart that heavy 
Dm                Cm         Dm           Em 
Donâ??t donâ??t donâ??t anchor me, donâ??t anchor me 
      A                Em 
Donâ??t anchor me, donâ??t anchor me 
A     Em  A 
Da da da  daa 

OUTRO 
A    Em 
Dm   Cm 
A 

SECOND PART (2:14 onwards, with all sorts of riffs. Play over these chords) 
Em    A 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante