Elevator Operator chords by Courtney Barnett

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Song: Elevator Operator

Artist: Courtney Barnett

Album: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015)

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Capo on 4th fret

*This is not a simplified version or something like that, Courtney plays the song like this!*

Chords:

E    : 0221xx
A5   : x022xx
E/F# : 2021xx
E7/G : 3201xx


E
  Oliver Paul, twenty years old

A5
Thick head of hair, worries he's going bald

E
  Wakes up at quarter past nine

A5
Fair evades his way down the 96 tram line

E
Breakfast on the run again, he's well aware

     A5                                        E     A5 E A5
He's dropping soy linseed Vegemite crumbs everywhere

E
  Feeling sick at the sight of his computer

   A5
He dodges his way through the Swanston commuters

E
Rips off his tie, hands it to a homeless man

A                                                   E
Sleeping in the corner of a metro bus stand and he screams


"I'm not going to work today

          A5
Going to count the minutes that the trains run late

E                                                      A5  E E/F# E7/G A5
  Sit on the grass building pyramids out of Coke cans"

E
Headphone wielding to the Nicholas building

   A5
He trips on a pothole that's not been filled in

  E
He waits for an elevator, one to nine

  A5
A lady walks in and waits by his side

   E
Her heels are high and her bag is snakeskin

A5
Hair pulled so tight you can see her skeleton

E
Vickers perfume on her breath

  A5
A tortoise shell necklace between her breasts

             E
She looks him up and down with a botox frown

     A5
He's well used to that look by now

    E       E/F#            E7/G       A5
The elevator dings and they awkwardly step in

      E       E/F#         E7/G    A5
Their fingers touch on the rooftop button

       E                      A5
Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof

                 E                               A5
You've got your whole life ahead of you, you're still in your youth

E                          A5            E A5
I'd give anything to have skin like you

         E
He said "I think you're projecting the way that you're feeling

    A5
I'm not suicidal, just idling insignificantly

   E
I come up here for perception and clarity

   A5
I like to imagine I'm playing SimCity

         E               E/F#         E7/G   A5
All the people look like ants from up here

         E               E/F#           E7/G  A5
And the wind's the only traffic you can hear"

          E    E/F#       E7/G  A5
He said "All I ever wanted to be

        E       E/F#          E7/G        A5
Was an elevator operator, can you help me please?"

       E                      A5
Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof

                 E                               A5
You've got your whole life ahead of you, you're still in your youth

E                          A5            E  A5
I'd give anything to have skin like you

       E                      A5
Don't jump little boy, don't jump off that roof

                  E                              A5
You've got your whole life ahead of you, you're still in your youth

E                          A5             E A5
I'd give anything to have skin like you

E E/F# E7/G A

E E/F# E7/G A

E E/F# E7/G A

E E/F# E7/G A