Elevator Operator chords by
Courtney Barnett

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Key: Ab major

Verse 1
Ab Ab 4
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Oliver Paul, twenty years old
Db Db 4
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Thick head of hair, worries he's going bold
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Wakes up at quarter past nine
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Fair evades his way down
the 96 tram line
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Breakfast on the run again,
he's well aware
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He's dropping soy linseed Vegemite
Ab Ab 4
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crumbs everywhere

Interlude 1

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Verse 2
Ab Ab 4
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Feeling sick at the sight of his computer
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He dodges his way through the
Swanston commuters
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Rips off his tie,
hands it to a homeless man
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Sleeping in the corner of a metro
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bus stand and he screams
I'm not going to work today
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Going to count   the minutes
that the trains run late
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Sit on the grass building pyramids out

Interlude 2

of Coke cans

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Verse 3
Ab Ab 4
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Headphone wielding to the
Nicholas building
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He trips on a pothole that's
not been filled in
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He  waits for an elevator, one to nine
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A lady walks in and waits by his side
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Her heels are high and her
bag is snakeskin
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Hair pulled so tight you
can see her skeleton
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Vickers perfume on her breath
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A tortoise shell necklace
between her breasts
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She looks him up and down
with a botox frown
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He's well used to that look by now
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Gb Gb 2
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The elevator dings and they
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Db Db 4
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awkwardly step in
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Gb Gb 2
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Their fingers touch on the
Cb Cb 2
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Db Db 4
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rooftop button

Verse 4
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Don't jump little boy,
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don't jump off that roof
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You've got your whole life ahead of
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you, you're still in your youth
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I'd give anything to have
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Ab Ab 4
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Db Db 4
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skin like you

Verse 5
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He said, I   think you're projecting
the way that you're feeling
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I'm not suicidal, just idling insignificantly
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I come up here for perception and clarity
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I like to imagine I'm playing SimCity
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Gb Gb 2
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All the people look like ants
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Db Db 4
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from up here
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And the wind's the only
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Cb Cb 2
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traffic you can hear
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Gb Gb 2
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Cb Cb 2
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Db Db 4
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He said All I ever wanted to  be
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Gb Gb 2
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Bbm Bbm 
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Was an elevator operator,
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can you help me please?

Verse 6
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Don't jump little boy,
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don't jump off that roof
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You've got your whole life ahead of
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you, you're still in your youth
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I'd give anything to have
Db Db 4
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skin like you
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Verse 7
Db Db 4
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Ab Ab 4
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Don't jump little boy,
Db Db 4
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don't jump off that roof
Ab Ab 4
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You've got your whole life ahead of you,
Db Db 4
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you're still in your youth
Ab Ab 4
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Db Db 4
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I'd give anything to have skin like you