Source Decay chords by The Mountain Goats

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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
Once a week  (D major) I make the drive,
Esus4 
E 
 (Esus4) two hours east (E major) 
Em 
G 
D 
To  (E minor) check the  (G major) Austin post office box  (D major) 
And I make the detour through
Em 
 (E minor) our old neighborhood
G 
See  (G major) all the Chevy Impalas in their
A 
 (A major) front yards up on blocks

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Verse 2

And I park in an alley

And I read through the postcards

you continue to send

Where as indirectly as you can,

you ask what I remember

I like these torture devices

from my old best friend

Verse 3
Bm 
Well, I'll  (B minor) tell you what I know,
E 
G 
like I swore  (E major) I always would  (G major) 
A 
I don't think it's gonna do  (A major) you any good
D 
G 
I remem (D major) ber the train  (G major) headed
D 
G 
 (D major) south out of Bangkok  (G major) 
A 
G 
D 
Down  (A major) toward  (G major) the wa (D major) ter
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D 
G 
D 
G 
D 
 (G major)  (D major)  (G major)  (D major)  (G major)  (D major) 

Verse 4
D 
 (D major) I always get a late start
Em 
E 
when the  (E minor) sun's going down  (E major) 
G 
 (G major) And the traffic's thinning out
D 
and the  (D major) glare is hard to take
I wish the West Texas Highway
E 
was a  (E major) mobius strip
G 
 (G major) I could ride it out forever

Verse 5
A 
G 
When I  (A major) feel my heart break, I almost swear  (G major) I hear it happen,
A 
in fact,  (A major) clean and not hard
D 
I  (D major) come in off the highway and
G 
I park  (G major) in my front yard
Bm 
 (B minor) Fall out of the car like a
E 
 (E major) hostage from a plane
G 
 (G major) Think of you a while,
A 
start  (A major) wishing it would rain

Verse 6

And I remember the train headed

south out of Bangkok

Down toward the water

Interlude 1

Verse 7
D 
I  (D major) come into the house,
E 
Em 
G 
put  (E major) on a pot of coffee  (E minor)  (G major) 
D 
Walk the floors a little while  (D major) 
I set your postcard on the table
E 
Em 
G 
with  (E major) all the others like  (E minor) it   (G major) 
A 
I start sorting through the pile  (A major) 

Verse 8
G 
I check the pic (G major) tures and the postmarks
A 
and the  (A major) captions and the stamps
D 
G 
For signs  (D major) of any pattern at all  (G major) 
Em 
E 
Em 
When I  (E minor) come up empty-han (E major) ded the  (E minor) 
G 
D 
the  (G major) feeling almost overwhelms me  (D major) 
A 
I let a few of my de (A major) fenses fall

Verse 9
Bm 
And I smile  (B minor) a bitter smile
E 
It's not a  (E major) pretty thing to see
G 
 (G major) I think about a railroad platform
A 
G 
D 
G 
Back in  (A major) 1983 And  (G major) I  remem (D major) ber the train  (G major) 
D 
G 
headed  (D major) south out of Bangkok  (G major) 
A 
G 
Down,  (A major) down to (G major) ward the wa
D 
G 
 (D major) ter  (G major) 