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Elevator Operator

Elevator Operator easy guitar chords by Courtney Barnett

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 1

Capo

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Capo
  • G

  • C

  • F

  • Bb

  • Am

  • G

  • C

  • F

  • Bb

  • Am

  • Verse 1
    G

    Oliver Paul, twenty years old
    C

    Thick head of hair, worries he's going bold
    G

    Wakes up at quarter past nine
    C

    Fair evades his way down

    the 96 tram line
    G

    Breakfast on the run again,

    he's well aware
    C

    He's dropping soy linseed Vegemite
    G

    crumbs everywhere
    Interlude 1
    C
    G
    C

    Verse 2
    G

    Feeling sick at the sight of his computer
    C

    He dodges his way through the

    Swanston commuters
    G

    Rips off his tie,

    hands it to a homeless man
    C

    Sleeping in the corner of a metro
    G

    bus stand and he screams

    I'm not going to work today
    C

    Going to count the minutes

    that the trains run late
    G

    Sit on the grass building pyramids out
    Interlude 2

    of Coke cans
    C
    G
    F
    Bb
    C

    Verse 3
    G

    Headphone wielding to the

    Nicholas building
    C

    He trips on a pothole that's

    not been filled in
    G

    He waits for an elevator, one to nine
    C

    A lady walks in and waits by his side
    G

    Her heels are high and her

    bag is snakeskin
    C

    Hair pulled so tight you

    can see her skeleton
    G

    Vickers perfume on her breath
    C

    A tortoise shell necklace

    between her breasts
    G

    She looks him up and down

    with a botox frown
    C

    He's well used to that look by now
    G
    F

    The elevator dings and they
    Bb
    C

    awkwardly step in
    G
    F

    Their fingers touch on the
    Bb
    C

    rooftop button
    Verse 4
    G

    Don't jump little boy,
    C

    don't jump off that roof
    G

    You've got your whole life ahead of
    C

    you, you're still in your youth
    G

    I'd give anything to have
    C
    G
    C

    skin like you
    Verse 5
    G

    He said, I think you're projecting

    the way that you're feeling
    C

    I'm not suicidal, just idling insignificantly
    G

    I come up here for perception and clarity
    C

    I like to imagine I'm playing SimCity
    G
    F

    All the people look like ants
    Bb
    C

    from up here
    G

    And the wind's the only
    F
    Bb
    C

    traffic you can hear
    G
    F
    Bb
    C

    He said All I ever wanted to be
    G
    F
    Am

    Was an elevator operator,
    Bb
    C

    can you help me please?
    Verse 6
    G

    Don't jump little boy,
    C

    don't jump off that roof
    G

    You've got your whole life ahead of
    C

    you, you're still in your youth
    G

    I'd give anything to have
    C

    skin like you
    G
    Verse 7
    C

    G

    Don't jump little boy,
    C

    don't jump off that roof
    G

    You've got your whole life ahead of you,
    C

    you're still in your youth
    G
    C

    I'd give anything to have skin like you
    Outro 1
    G
    C
    G
    Am
    Bb

    C
    G
    F
    Bb
    C
    G
    F
    Am

    Bb
    C
    G
    Am
    Bb
    C

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