Sideways Skull chords by
The Hold Steady
The Hold Steady

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Key: A major
Intro 1
G
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F#
F#

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D
D

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G
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She ordered me a Newcastle
Verse 1
And handed me a Marlboro
Stuck a dove in my right hand
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F#

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She took a quick picture
But even when we squinted
Verse 2
I didn't look so much like Robert Plant
D
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G
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She flew a flag she made
from a bedsheet
A sideways skull and a
lopsided pentagram
A
A

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Said "Asymmetrical's way
more diabolical
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G

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You don't want to make it
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D

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look too perfect, man"
A
A

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The trick is not getting cynical
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G

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She had a hairbrush mic
D
D

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and a fantasy band
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G

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She opened up with We Are
D
D

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The Champions
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G

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D
D

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Went into right into Under my Wheels
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G

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I was trying to figure out how I feel
D
D

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Verse 3
C
C

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Faded denim with the buttons
G
G

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and badges
Laminates and backstage passes
D
D

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Jacket held together by the
C
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G
G

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D
D

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rock band patches
They let her smoke but she
C
C

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can't have matches
Am
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D
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After last week's pyro disaster
She'd like me better if I did
C
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G

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n't wear glasses
Interlude 1
F#
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She said we're gonna
Verse 4
do a show
at The Pyramids
She said she needs to take a call
from her lawyers
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Introduced me to the dudes that
she's calling her crew
An assortment of sad self- destroyers
G
G

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Sitting six to a table in the room
off the kitchen
Telling stories about things they imagined
A
A

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Like after the show we got
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G

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roofed on the Reeperbahn
D
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Woke up in a video cabin
A
A

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I was rolling my eyes at the ritual lies
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G

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Ok, maybe half of that happened
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G
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Verse 5
Bb
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D
D

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She bites down
on the the caplet
C
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And the blood comes from her mouth
G
G

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But it's hard to fully rock in a
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D

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halfway house
C
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The band would be better if they
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D
D

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weren't such burnouts
The Beatle boots and the
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glam rock top hat
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A

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D
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Isn't gonna make any difference
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It never works when no one listens
Interlude 2
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C
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D
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Bb
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Am
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G
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F#m
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Bb
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Am
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D
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Bm
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Am
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G
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D
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F#dim
F#dim

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F#m
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D
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C
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Faded denim with the
Verse 6
buttons
G
G

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and badges
Laminates and backstage passes
D
D

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A jacket held together by
C
C

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G
G

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the rock band patches
They let her smoke but she
can't have matches
D
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Bites down on the capsule and
C
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The blood comes from her mouth
Am
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A
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But it's hard to really rock in
D
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a halfway house
C
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The pesky problem of the
tepid turnout
G
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Verse 7
D
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I said I've got a band too
C
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We're called The Price of Progress
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We've got a reputation as New
D
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Hampshire's hardest
Our singer's psycho and
C
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our fans are violent
G
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Once they let me loose we're
D
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probably touring Europe
C
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Morning meetings in the room off
Am
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the kitchen
A
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New medication for the
D
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same old depression
C
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G
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It never works when no one listens
D
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But it's sure nice to meet
C
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some fellow musicians
Outro 1
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