Phil chords by
Max Ochs
Max Ochs

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Key: Gb major
Verse 1
F#
F#

Phil.
D#m
D#m

F#
F#

My pen won't pour out a lyric
D#
D#

line when I'm gone.
F#
F#

Phil Oaks.
A#m
A#m

D#
D#

The words would
G#
G#

n't come anymore.
F#
F#

G#
G#

F#
F#

So you went and forever shut
F#
F#

the door.
G#
G#

What made your expectations so great?
F#
F#

Was it ego?
G#
G#

Was it pride or druggie fate?
F#
F#

Phil, would I could have talked to you
A#m
A#m

F#
F#

Sir, made you stay and reckon
with a holy rod
Had I been omniscient,
seen the stupid future
But how was I to know, not being God
G#
G#

A#m
A#m

G#
G#

Phil, you did pills, smoked hash,
F#
F#

sniffed cocaine
G#
G#

The drug has a way of let
F#
F#

ting one down badly
A#m
A#m

G#
G#

How inept of me, you
know what I'm saying
But I really was proud,
F#
F#

now I sing out sadly.
I just wonder if what we are in
our own estimation
G#
G#

has anything at all to do with truth.
F#
F#

A#m
A#m

G#
G#

In the world, of the world,
F#
F#

you paid attention,
cared about the prices
F#
F#

and the politics of youth.
B
B

New York Times, oh bit,
A#m
A#m

G#
G#

oh boy, it hit between the lines,
F#
F#

G#
G#

forsooth, fill who can read my heart.
F#
F#

It is sick and sore at the story in the times,
F#
F#

and far rock away he decided to depart.
What was it all about?
We never know the agony
F#
F#

through which the oth ers go
that drives them to this ultimate dread
and deep despair and self -hatred.
He thought he was failing us.
A#m
A#m

He felt ob liged to
G#m
G#m

keep producing words,
A#m
A#m

A#
A#

words to sustain the poor
F#
F#

Am
Am

peaceful people, words
Gm
Gm

Words to keep us from the rain,
Am
Am

G#
G#

Gm
Gm

words to aim us true
F#
F#

towards one another
E#
E#

and help ease each other's pain.

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