If These Walls Could Speak
By Sean McConnell
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
5/26/2013

This was a challenging tab - hope I got it close enough for everyone to play! This guy is amazing! Sean does an
open tuning and plays capo 2 but this tab can work for standard drop d tuned guitars, Here's how Sean plays it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CJ3JyHRdis


Drop D tuning

In Drop D, you play G like 5X0003 or 540003. G/F# in the tab would be 4X0003



D                               D/C#                      G                   Asus4      A
Last night I had a dream I went back to my old home down at 200 orange street a long time ago
      D                                  D/C#                        G                          Asus4      A
And I walked up to the front porch and I opened the screen door and it hit me like it never did before
         D                               D/C#                         G                            Asus4              A
Took the stairs up to my bedroom where I spent most of my years, making faces at my brother, holding him through common fears
             D                         D/C#                     G                                      Asus4         A
And I walked over to the window and my heart almost died, I could hear the neighbors screamin', "Come outside, come outside."
        G                            G/F#                   G       A
And our young voices make me see the kind of children that we used to be


Chorus:
             D                               D/C#                        G                          Asus4             A                              
And if these streets could whisper, if these walls could speak, they would scream out love they would cry themselves to sleep
           D                         D/C#                         G                                 Asus4         A
They would pray to Jesus, they would sing rock and roll, they would laugh with each other, they would live soul to soul
      G                A         G  A             Em         G/F#  G     A          D   D/C#                 G   D  A  D  D/C#  G  D
But I guess that don't matter anyway, cuz if these walls could speak  I know what they'd say…  I know what they'd say


         D                               D/C#                           G                            Asus4               A 
Took the hallway to the bedroom where my parents used to sleep, where I'd sneak in during quiet and my nightmares grew too deep
             D                           D/C#                        G                                 Asus4      A
And I walked over to the closet where my father hung his ties, I still smell the scent of cigarettes and years gone by
G                                    G/F#                     G        A
That closet used to look so tall and now everything around here seems so small


Chorus


Bridge:
G                                          D                         Asus2
In this dream of childhood memories some I never will forget, some I might as well
     G                                A                                               Em G/F#  G               Em G/F# G  A   D                   
Well most of them have happy endings, some of them still burn like hell…they burn like he-e-e-el-l…they burn like he-e--e-e--e-e-l 


          D                               D/C#                        G                        Asus4       A
So to the living room I went, to where my sisters used to sing, used to get on my last nerve now I'd give anything 
        D                             D/C#                         G                               Asus4        A  
Just to see them there again, dancing like they used to do, spinning circles and holding hands until I'd break on through
G                                    G/F#                  G           A
Well I woke up when I heard a shout, "Ain't it beautiful how life turned out?"


Chorus