Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right chords by
The Decemberists
The Decemberists

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Key: G major
Intro 1
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Bm
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Verse 1
C
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The film was a bust,
but we stayed to the ending
Hair all a mussed but your clothes
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G

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Bm
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Bm
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didn't look so bad
C
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And back on the street,
the rain was descending
In cold dirty sheets,
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so under the awning we sat
And then you hailed yourself a yellow cab
Verse 2
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And I sat for a time by the valets in line
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And I read what you wrote on the card
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Above a cowboy you drew
a big dark balloon
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Saying "try not to take it so hard"
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Am
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But there's this nagging suspicion
C
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that won't leave me alone tonight
Its just that everything I try to do,
Interlude 1
nothing seems to turn out right
G
G

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Em
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C
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G
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Verse 3
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C

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We laid on our backs and
stared at the ceiling
Messed with your slacks,
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but ended up just holding your hand
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The rain will remain, the tv was telling
A drip of the drain as your
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legs lifted brilliantly bent
And fall to resting on the ottoman
Verse 4
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So we turned off the tube and we
crawled to your room
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Leaving discarded clothes in our way
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And we both had some fun,
though I twice bit my tongue
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And it lasted too long for my taste
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And there's this nagging suspicion
C
C

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that won't leave me alone tonight
Its just that everything I try to do,
Interlude 2
nothing seems to turn out right
G
G

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C
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Verse 5
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And there's this nagging suspicion
C
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that won't leave me alone tonight
Its just that everything I try to do,
G
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nothing seems to turn out right
Verse 6
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A wink and a wave and
your off to your family's
I sit and watch as the taxis
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lights distantly fade
I guess I always thought it'd end this way

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