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

F#m
F#m

Bm
Bm

D
D

E
E

Verse 1
A
A

Three
brides before breakfast
F#m
F#m

These reds, they're just rectus
Bm
Bm

Right hand on my heart around
D
D

E
E

My left hand snaps your necklace
A
A

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

Holding on, get away just barely
Bm
Bm

D
D

Moms and dads are rationing their cash
E
E

For the commissary
C#m
C#m

F#m
F#m

But I can't stop without
D
D

E
E

C#m
C#m

F#m
F#m

going all the way
Bm
Bm

E
E

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

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

canary 'the clips
Bm
Bm

Across here,
E
E

in a pink- slip
Interlude 1
A
A

F#m
F#m

Bm
Bm

D
D

E
E

Verse 2
A
A

F#m
F#m

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

Show me my best memory,
D
D

E
E

it's probably super crappy
A
A

F#m
F#m

Not here, standing sexless
with sluts of both sexes
Bm
Bm

D
D

Liars, lumps and drug addicts and drunks
E
E

C#m
C#m

F#m
F#m

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

E
E

C#m
C#m

F#m
F#m

without going all the way
Bm
Bm

E
E

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

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

genie with a golden spur
Bm
Bm

E
E

A price to pay to pink- slips
A
A

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

With a cold cane, there was nobody here
Bm
Bm

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

E
E

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

pink- slips
Interlude 2
F#m
F#m

Bm
Bm

E
E

A
A

F#m
F#m

A
A

F#m
F#m

Verse 4
A
A

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

Other fish lay lifted,
Bm
Bm

D
D

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

A
A

C#m
C#m

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

D
D

E
E

C#m
C#m

F#m
F#m

those two too sad and dies
Bm
Bm

E
E

It's just a dream we all have
A
A

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

a post per post of puckered lips
Bm
Bm

E
E

From Academy Awards to pink- slips
A
A

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

And I'm standing in the rain to get
Bm
Bm

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

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

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

with a swag tuxedo in his face
Bm
Bm

A music room that you can't place,
E
E

sing the songs on all them tapes
A
A

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

doesn't even write, he just rows
D
D

E
E

And they cover up his cot with pink- slips

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