Lido Pier Suicide Car chords by Okkervil River

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
C majorC E minorEm G+G E minorEm

Verse:
 FF               G+G
I thought I saw my god, through frays of total blood,
  FF              G+G
at some Hampton Beach club. And half-convinced he had
  FF
the things I thought he did...

   G+G
Hey, Ritchie, it's your dad.
       FF                G+G
I've gone so far away now, kid. From coast to coast and far beyond.
  FF              G+G
The waves rose up like gasps out on the astral sea,
FF                          G+G
starships shifting in the crud... Don't believe that stuff on your TV.
                C majorC
No, I've got to leave. I can't come back.

C majorC D MajorD C majorC E minorEm

Chorus:
FF     G+G
Lido Pier suicide car.
FF     G+G
Lido Pier suicide car.
FF     G+G
Lido Pier suicide car.
        C majorC        E minorEm      FF
It's a straight shot drive to a life full of stars.

Verse:
      FF                 G+G
At first it seemed a little speck, and then it seemed a little mist.
      FF                    G+G
We took our drinks out to the deck. We watched that silver ladder twist.
         FF                G+G
We flew over the hills, the harbor bar. Over the wakeward-flashing spray.
       FF                       G+G
We watched it shrink, that Jag, that Jaguar. We watched our old friends fall away.

Chorus:
           FF  G+G
My heart, oh, feel it pounding
          FF   G+G
to watch our little town receding.
              FF     G+G       C majorC
They're not knowing why or how we're leaving, only believing

C majorC D MajorD C majorC E minorEm

   FF     G+G
in a Lido Pier suicide car.
FF     G+G
Lido Pier suicide car.
FF     G+G
Lido Pier suicide car.
FF     G+G
Lido Pier suicide, suicide.
FF     G+G
Lido Pier suicide car.

Bridge:
    FF        C majorC      FF      C majorC
He's a ramrod handshake stud. He's a steward of a land
   FF        C majorC       FF     C majorC
hand-washed in hero's blood. He's a lodger of demands.
     FF       C majorC         FF          C majorC
He's the hassler of the gassed-up graspers trying to make their grands.
    FF       C majorC          FF      C majorC
When he catches me in freezing seas, he'll lead me into land.
       FF       C majorC      FF         C majorC
He says he's gonna break my band. I just have to take that hand.
     G+G
Oh, crocodile!

Chorus:
           FF  G+G
And can you hear the shouting,
           FF  G+G
out there beyond the boundary?
   FF                     G+G
Some distant voice is sounding, and what is it saying?

         FF     G+G
Something about a Lido Pier suicide car.
FF     G+G
Lido Pier suicide car.
FF     G+G        C majorC
Lido Pier suicide suicide car.