Pink-Slips chords by
Okkervil River
Okkervil River
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Key: Bb major
Intro 1
B
B

G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

E
E

F#
F#

Verse 1
B
B

Three
brides before breakfast
G#m
G#m

These reds, they're just rectus
C#m
C#m

Right hand on my heart around
E
E

F#
F#

My left hand snaps your necklace
B
B

Each day is a little more scary
G#m
G#m

Holding on, get away just barely
C#m
C#m

E
E

Moms and dads are rationing their cash
F#
F#

For the commissary
D#m
D#m

G#m
G#m

But I can't stop without
E
E

F#
F#

D#m
D#m

G#m
G#m

going all the way
C#m
C#m

F#
F#

It's a habit, someone gave me up
B
B

This man in the black cage,
G#m
G#m

canary 'the clips
C#m
C#m

Across here,
F#
F#

in a pink- slip
Interlude 1
B
B

G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

E
E

F#
F#

Verse 2
B
B

G#m
G#m

This wish just to going back here
When I know it wasn't ever,
ever happening
C#m
C#m

Show me my best memory,
E
E

F#
F#

it's probably super crappy
B
B

G#m
G#m

Not here, standing sexless
with sluts of both sexes
C#m
C#m

E
E

Liars, lumps and drug addicts and drunks
F#
F#

D#m
D#m

G#m
G#m

I love my friends but I can't stop
E
E

F#
F#

D#m
D#m

G#m
G#m

without going all the way
C#m
C#m

F#
F#

And I've been that way since '83
B
B

Oh, midwife with a jet life or a
G#m
G#m

genie with a golden spur
C#m
C#m

F#
F#

A price to pay to pink- slips
B
B

Verse 3
A country Cadillac in the
valley of mirrors
G#m
G#m

With a cold cane, there was nobody here
C#m
C#m

Came for the communism,
I kissed it on the lips
E
E

F#
F#

It came with the singers in hazel
D#m
D#m

pink- slips
Interlude 2
G#m
G#m

C#m
C#m

F#
F#

B
B

G#m
G#m

B
B

G#m
G#m

Verse 4
B
B

Is it a kiss or it's just a dream
and I'm drifting?
G#m
G#m

Other fish lay lifted,
C#m
C#m

E
E

only happy till the age of 10
G#m
G#m

B
B

D#m
D#m

It's still a gift, but we can't go back,
G#m
G#m

E
E

F#
F#

D#m
D#m

G#m
G#m

those two too sad and dies
C#m
C#m

F#
F#

It's just a dream we all have
B
B

Now I know in the touch lane,
G#m
G#m

a post per post of puckered lips
C#m
C#m

F#
F#

From Academy Awards to pink- slips
B
B

I show them my Corvette
with no ' for years
G#m
G#m

And I'm standing in the rain to get
C#m
C#m

the champagne or beers
They said 'who's that shadow
sneaking up behind the pier?'
F#
F#

He was rushing he was rattled
now he's finally in the clear
B
B

To be a, a refugee from the rat race
G#m
G#m

with a swag tuxedo in his face
C#m
C#m

A music room that you can't place,
F#
F#

sing the songs on all them tapes
B
B

He's the lonely aid on the planet ' now he
G#m
G#m

doesn't even write, he just rows
E
E

F#
F#

And they cover up his cot with pink- slips

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