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Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds by The Mountain Goats

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Intro:
E

Verse 1:
          E
There's indifference on the wind, but a faint gust of hope
E
At a club nobody goes to, with a musty velvet rope
        A
Guys in Motörhead jackets who knew him way back when
E
Haven't raised a drink in years but now meet up again
     D                               A
To remember how it was when they all thought they'd move away
    E                                                       A
And ride in Lotus 7s through the London streets one day

Chorus 1:
B                 E       A
Nobody ever gets away
B                        A         B       C
Even the best of us come back some day
       D                         E                   A
To the unmarked rooms, where the dry dust breeds
       E           A              B         E
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds

Verse 2:
          E
There's a rusted fog machine in a concrete storage space
E
Letter-number combinations with no meaning on its face
           A
They won't make these anymore, it's a wooden coach-n-four
   E
No-one will even steal it if you leave it by the door
   D                           A
No sign to mark it's going, no tombstone for its grave
           E                                                  A
There will be goodbyes by dozens, so practice being brave

Chorus 2:
B                      E        A
No-one anticipates the rush
B                         A        B         C
The breezy feeling of the faceless crush
       D                        E                  A
At the end of things, where the salvage bleeds
       E           A             B          Eaug
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds

Bridge:
                      E       B        G#m           C#m
They don't throw him a parade, he just comes in on a train
    Am6                         E
One suitcase in his hand and an old army backpack
         A
From the Second World War
           B
From a Leipzig secondhand store
E     Eaug     E

Verse 3:
         E
Pick the keys up from the agent, everything's been taken care of
E
No big changes in the roadways since you've left that I'm aware of
          A
A few old buildings gone to dust and some new ones in the way
        E
They'll look just like the old ones when the winds have had their say
        D                          A
See the children bound for London; you'll all be back too
     E                                                     A
Everybody tests the membrane but no-one pushes through

Chorus 3:
B                        E         A
Come on boys that'll be enough
B                                     A       B         C
You'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough
       D                          E                        A
Like a basket by the Nile, hiding down among the reeds
       E           A              B
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds

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