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

Dm
Dm

Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

C
C

Verse 1
F
F

Three
brides before breakfast
Dm
Dm

These reds, they're just rectus
Gm
Gm

Right hand on my heart around
Bb
Bb

C
C

My left hand snaps your necklace
F
F

Each day is a little more scary
Dm
Dm

Holding on, get away just barely
Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

Moms and dads are rationing their cash
C
C

For the commissary
Am
Am

Dm
Dm

But I can't stop without
Bb
Bb

C
C

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

going all the way
Gm
Gm

C
C

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

This man in the black cage,
Dm
Dm

canary 'the clips
Gm
Gm

Across here,
C
C

in a pink- slip
Interlude 1
F
F

Dm
Dm

Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

C
C

Verse 2
F
F

Dm
Dm

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

Show me my best memory,
Bb
Bb

C
C

it's probably super crappy
F
F

Dm
Dm

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

Bb
Bb

Liars, lumps and drug addicts and drunks
C
C

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

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

C
C

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

without going all the way
Gm
Gm

C
C

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

Oh, midwife with a jet life or a
Dm
Dm

genie with a golden spur
Gm
Gm

C
C

A price to pay to pink- slips
F
F

Verse 3
A country Cadillac in the
valley of mirrors
Dm
Dm

With a cold cane, there was nobody here
Gm
Gm

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

C
C

It came with the singers in hazel
Am
Am

pink- slips
Interlude 2
Dm
Dm

Gm
Gm

C
C

F
F

Dm
Dm

F
F

Dm
Dm

Verse 4
F
F

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

Other fish lay lifted,
Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

only happy till the age of 10
Dm
Dm

F
F

Am
Am

It's still a gift, but we can't go back,
Dm
Dm

Bb
Bb

C
C

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

those two too sad and dies
Gm
Gm

C
C

It's just a dream we all have
F
F

Now I know in the touch lane,
Dm
Dm

a post per post of puckered lips
Gm
Gm

C
C

From Academy Awards to pink- slips
F
F

I show them my Corvette
with no ' for years
Dm
Dm

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

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

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

To be a, a refugee from the rat race
Dm
Dm

with a swag tuxedo in his face
Gm
Gm

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

sing the songs on all them tapes
F
F

He's the lonely aid on the planet ' now he
Dm
Dm

doesn't even write, he just rows
Bb
Bb

C
C

And they cover up his cot with pink- slips

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