Our Whole Lives chords by
The Hold Steady

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Key: B major

Verse 1
G G 
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Em Em 
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The
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kids are ripping
into sugar packets.
Townies taking off their tavern jackets.
I'm in the pews sticking
bills in the basket.
Praying that they're cool when
Em Em 
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I come pick up the package.

Verse 2
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G G 
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To  night we're gonna
have a really good time.
But I want to go to heaven
on the day I die.
Going to make like a preemptive strike.
Hit the 5:30 mass early
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Saturday night.

Verse 3
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Em Em 
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Ring ring ring goes the telephone.
C C 
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Tell my little lamb that I'm
on my way home.
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C C 
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Stop by the shop and get a bottle to go.
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And maybe something stronger if

Verse 4
the right guy is on the corner.
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Em Em 
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Bang bang bang goes the quarter notes.
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Saint Theresa told me we should
rattle our bones.
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C C 
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Now you're going off to the dial tone.
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Some kid started blowing on

Verse 5
a saxophone.
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Cheerleaders dream of quarterbacks.
Jock Jills go for jumping Jacks.
Goth girls love the vampire bats.
They wanna draw a little blood
for their bath.
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Verse 6
G G 
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I don't go much for all that spooky stuff.
I like the lights and uptempo tracks.
You're damn right I believe in love.
Because I've been in love and I've
Em Em 
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been loved right back.
G G 
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Bang bang bang goes
Em Em 
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the backing track.
C C 
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Some kid is coming around
F F 
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with the magic backpack.
I didn't know that you could
C C 
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dance like that.
G G 
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I'm gonna have to ask that

Verse 7
you take two steps back.
G G 
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Em Em 
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Sing sing sing every song you know.
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F F 
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Blowing out the speakers on your stereo.
C C 
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F F 
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You fi nally stopped talking
C C 
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about that boy back home.
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Maybe that's just better.
If you want you can sleep over.

Verse 8
C C 
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We're good guys but we can't
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C C 
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be good every night.
Am Am 
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G G 
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F F 
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We're good guys but we can't
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be good our whole lives.
We're good guys but we
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Em Em 
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can't be good every night.
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Am Am 
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Father I have sinned.
G G 
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F F 
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G G 
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An d I want to do it all again tonight.

Interlude 1
Dsus4 Dsus4 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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Em Em 
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G G 
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The townies taking off their

Verse 9
G G 
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tavern jackets.
Making guitars out of tennis racquets.
It's been getting so the
hardest part is trying to
Talk some sense into
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our sparkling hearts.

Verse 10
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Em Em 
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Ring ring ring goes the telephone,
C C 
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Tell my little lambs I ain't coming home.
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C C 
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Yes yes yes go the majorettes.
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They lead the band onto the
field with their cigarettes.
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Bang bang bang she's a cleaning freak.
C C 
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She scrubs the surface
until it's sparkling.
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Neat neat neat until her fin
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gers bleed.
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She was giving off blue light on the
first night that she came to me.

Verse 11
C C 
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We're good guys but we can't
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G G 
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be good every night.
Am Am 
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F F 
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We're good guys but we can't
G G 
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C C 
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be good our whole lives.
G G 
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C C 
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We're good guys but we can't
Em Em 
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C C 
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be good every night.
Am Am 
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G G 
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We're good guys but we can't
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G G 
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be good our whole lives.
C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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She was giving off blue light on the first
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night that she came to me.
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F F 
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Father I have sinned and I want
to do it all again
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