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

D#m
D#m

G#m
G#m

B
B

C#
C#

Verse 1
F#
F#

Three
brides before breakfast
D#m
D#m

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

Right hand on my heart around
B
B

C#
C#

My left hand snaps your necklace
F#
F#

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

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

B
B

Moms and dads are rationing their cash
C#
C#

For the commissary
A#m
A#m

D#m
D#m

But I can't stop without
B
B

C#
C#

A#m
A#m

D#m
D#m

going all the way
G#m
G#m

C#
C#

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

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

canary 'the clips
G#m
G#m

Across here,
C#
C#

in a pink- slip
Interlude 1
F#
F#

D#m
D#m

G#m
G#m

B
B

C#
C#

Verse 2
F#
F#

D#m
D#m

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

Show me my best memory,
B
B

C#
C#

it's probably super crappy
F#
F#

D#m
D#m

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

B
B

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

A#m
A#m

D#m
D#m

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

C#
C#

A#m
A#m

D#m
D#m

without going all the way
G#m
G#m

C#
C#

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

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

genie with a golden spur
G#m
G#m

C#
C#

A price to pay to pink- slips
F#
F#

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

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

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

C#
C#

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

pink- slips
Interlude 2
D#m
D#m

G#m
G#m

C#
C#

F#
F#

D#m
D#m

F#
F#

D#m
D#m

Verse 4
F#
F#

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

Other fish lay lifted,
G#m
G#m

B
B

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

F#
F#

A#m
A#m

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

B
B

C#
C#

A#m
A#m

D#m
D#m

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

C#
C#

It's just a dream we all have
F#
F#

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

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

C#
C#

From Academy Awards to pink- slips
F#
F#

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

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

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
D#m
D#m

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

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
D#m
D#m

doesn't even write, he just rows
B
B

C#
C#

And they cover up his cot with pink- slips

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