External Actor chords by
Okkervil River
Okkervil River

N/A
Key: B major
Verse 1
F#
F#
It's all I'm looking for
C#
C#
These moments of opaque-
eyed knocked- out rapture
Helpless as a cow for the capture
F#
F#
Chosen in a frozen instant
Verse 2
F#
F#
Far away from the scabbed- out moment
C#
C#
Far from the flick- flick-
flick of the flatscreen
Far from the poison power of cash
F#
F#
Green cash reeking and heating
the jetstream
Verse 3
F#
F#
Oh, the shop- sweet breath,
she is my daughter
C#
C#
Daughter of the flashing instant
Daughter of watching "Daughters
of Darkness"
F#
F#
On your parents' couch with your
high- school boyfriend
Verse 4
F#
F#
Spinning fevered in a hazy ditch
C#
C#
We daughters of long hard skids
on the 10- speed
Daughters of July rips of the land speed
F#
F#
Semi- freckled eternal thrasher
Verse 5
F#
F#
Feather- haloed floating
C#
C#
hair eye- flasher
Floating like a fire in the distance
Flashing like a flush to the skin
F#
F#
And whispering like the wind
through the rushes
Verse 6
D#m
D#m
G#m
G#m
F#
F#
Oh no, external actor
C#
C#
B
B
External actor
C#
C#
Verse 7
F#
F#
You gotta hoist the high flag
You gotta learn how to hang
C#
C#
with the freaks and the hicks
And the heat of the lot
You gotta learn what is
and what is not
F#
F#
And you learn what isn't is not a lot
Verse 8
F#
F#
To drain a tin beer Streaming
cold in the fields
C#
C#
Sun is up and the heat is relentless
Dropping the rainbow rain on the canvas
F#
F#
Calls her friends in the capital
of cannabis
Verse 9
F#
F#
Where the cops down the block
And they circle and they stop
And they circle and they stop
C#
C#
And they stop and they circle
And they stop,
God help 'cause it's a lot
F#
F#
And may God have mercy
Verse 10
on the polyglot
D#m
D#m
G#m
G#m
F#
F#
Oh no, external actor
C#
C#
B
B
External actor
C#
C#
F#
F#
Verse 11
A million miles across, the starlight
C#
C#
Skip skip skip
A wide long curve of
spacedust melt around a star
F#
F#
Keep shining in the cold
C#
C#
Keep shining in the dark
D#m
D#m
G#m
G#m
F#
F#
Verse 12
C#
C#
F#
F#
B
B
F#
F#
C#
C#
External act or
F#
F#
Verse 13
Neighbor- loving,
brother- loving
C#
C#
Blanketing love of God above
Sigh of the river far from shore
F#
F#
Silence and the voice
C#
C#
don't speak any more
F#
F#
Silence and the voice
C#
C#
don't speak any more
F#
F#
Silence and the voice
C#
C#
don't speak any more
F#
F#
Silence and the voice
C#
C#
don't speak any more
F#
F#
Silence and the voice
C#
C#
don't speak any more
F#
F#
Silence and the voice
C#
C#
don't speak any more
F#
F#
Silence and the voice don't speak any more

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