The Easy Mark And The Old Maid chords by Bad Books

Chords with lyrics

B minorBm
Some men collapse at the racetrack
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Their wrong and beat up, their eyes black
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Others wilt in casinos
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Roll dice and piss away speedboats

          B minorBm
Some dissolve into bar stools
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Scratched off in boxes and playoff pools
          B minorBm
I spent myself on a psychic
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I lost my way and a friend said she would find it

       B minorBm
Man, we were wrong.
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Man, we were wrong.
 D MajorD
I asked for the future,
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She only sang me a song.

              B minorBm
Some men they go make their own luck
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Grow fat from feeding on lame ducks
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The easy mark and the old maid
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The invalid and the ingrate

           B minorBm
Others wait for that high sign
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Some holy hoax in the tree-line
           B minorBm
Me, I'm counting my canned food
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Bunkered down waiting out our slingshot moods

        B minorBm
But what if I'm wrong?
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What if I'm wrong?
   D MajorD
I'll open my doors up
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People, come sweep me along.

Interlude:
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C# minorC#m

           B minorBm
Eyes are fixed and my palms are spread
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Dissonance floats my shipwrecked head
          B minorBm
God sleeps in the Gaza strip
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And man alone's left alone to live with it

              B minorBm
The coin-flip faith of the optimist
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It's beginners luck in a sewing kit
            B minorBm
What's to do when there is no fix
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On the unflinching ambivalence?


         B minorBm
But you say that's wrong
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Hopeless and wrong
  D MajorD
We re-thread your needle,
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You say, "God, play along."