Key: Bb major
Intro 1
C
Am
Dm
F
G
Verse 1
C
Three
brides before breakfast
Am
These reds, they're just rectus
Dm
Right hand on my heart around
F
G
My left hand snaps your necklace
C
Each day is a little more scary
Am
Holding on, get away just barely
Dm
F
Moms and dads are rationing their cash
G
For the commissary
Em
Am
But I can't stop without
F
G
Em
Am
going all the way
Dm
G
It's a habit, someone gave me up
C
This man in the black cage,
Am
canary 'the clips
Dm
Across here,
G
in a pink- slip
Interlude 1
C
Am
Dm
F
G
Verse 2
C
Am
This wish just to going back here
When I know it wasn't ever,
ever happening
Dm
Show me my best memory,
F
G
it's probably super crappy
C
Am
Not here, standing sexless
with sluts of both sexes
Dm
F
Liars, lumps and drug addicts and drunks
G
Em
Am
I love my friends but I can't stop
F
G
Em
Am
without going all the way
Dm
G
And I've been that way since '83
C
Oh, midwife with a jet life or a
Am
genie with a golden spur
Dm
G
A price to pay to pink- slips
C
Verse 3
A country Cadillac in the
valley of mirrors
Am
With a cold cane, there was nobody here
Dm
Came for the communism,
I kissed it on the lips
F
G
It came with the singers in hazel
Em
pink- slips
Interlude 2
Am
Dm
G
C
Am
C
Am
Verse 4
C
Is it a kiss or it's just a dream
and I'm drifting?
Am
Other fish lay lifted,
Dm
F
only happy till the age of 10
Am
C
Em
It's still a gift, but we can't go back,
Am
F
G
Em
Am
those two too sad and dies
Dm
G
It's just a dream we all have
C
Now I know in the touch lane,
Am
a post per post of puckered lips
Dm
G
From Academy Awards to pink- slips
C
I show them my Corvette
with no ' for years
Am
And I'm standing in the rain to get
Dm
the champagne or beers
They said 'who's that shadow
sneaking up behind the pier?'
G
He was rushing he was rattled
now he's finally in the clear
C
To be a, a refugee from the rat race
Am
with a swag tuxedo in his face
Dm
A music room that you can't place,
G
sing the songs on all them tapes
C
He's the lonely aid on the planet ' now he
Am
doesn't even write, he just rows
F
G
And they cover up his cot with pink- slips
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