Pink Slips chords by Okkervil River

Chords with lyrics

Standard Tuning
CAPO 1


A augmentedA                F# minorF#m
Three brides before breakfast. These rails just wrecked us.
B minorBm                 D MajorD     E MajorE
My right hand on my heart while my left hand snaps your necklace.

A augmentedA                 F# minorF#m
Each day gets a little more scary. We're holding on, in a way, but just barely.
B minorBm                 D MajorD       E MajorE
Moms and Dads are rationing their cash for the commissary.

  D MajorD    E MajorE      C# minorC#m  F# minorF#m   B minorBm      D MajorD       E MajorE
But I can't start without going all the way - it's a habit someone gave me.
  A augmentedA                F# minorF#m
The nursemaid of the blank page. A augmentedA canary of the American eclipse.
   D MajorD         E MajorE
A augmentedA profiteer picking up pink slips.


A augmentedA                  F# minorF#m
This wish just to go back, hey... when I know wasn't ever, ever happy!
B minorBm               D MajorD    E MajorE
Show me my best memory - it's probably super crappy.
A augmentedA               F# minorF#m
Nine years down in Texas, with sluts of both sexes,
B minorBm                  D MajorD     E MajorE
liars, lumps, and drug addicts, and drunks; I love my friends,


  D MajorD    E MajorE      C# minorC#m  F# minorF#m   B minorBm      D MajorD          E MajorE
but I can't stop without going all the way, and I've been that way since '83.
A augmentedA               F# minorF#m
The midwife of the jetlife. Oh, genie with a golden spliff.
 D MajorD         E MajorE
A augmentedA prostitute paid in pink slips.


A augmentedA                        F# minorF#m
I crashed my Cadillac in the valley of mirrors. When the call came, there was nobody here.
B minorBm
When they came from the communists, I kissed them on the lips.
     D MajorD             E MajorE
Then they came for the singers, in a haze of pink slips.

A augmentedA                     F# minorF#m
I guess I was just dreaming and drifting, artificially lifted.
B minorBm             D MajorD        E MajorE
Only happy until the age of ten is still a gift,

  D MajorD      E MajorE       C# minorC#m F# minorF#m B minorBm
but we can't go back to those  "227"   days.
       D MajorD        E MajorE
It's just a dream we all were having.
A augmentedA                   F# minorF#m
Hey, mariner in the dirt trade. Oh, postman of the post-apocalypse -
   D MajorD          E MajorE
from Academy Awards to pink slips!


A augmentedA                               F# minorF#m
And I showered my Corvette with Moët for years, but now I'm standing
 in the rain drinking the champagne of beers.
     B minorBm
They say, "Who's that shadow sneaking off behind the pier?
    D MajorD                       E MajorE
He was rushed and then he was rattled, but now he's finally in the clear to be a

A augmentedA                    F# minorF#m
refugee from the rat race, in his white tuxedo and his sad-face.
 B minorBm                 D MajorD          E MajorE
A augmentedA music group that your dad plays, singing songs about autumn days.
A augmentedA                     F# minorF#m
He's the laureate of the Granite State, and now he doesn't even write, he just riffs.
       D MajorD             E MajorE
And they'll cover up his coffin with pink slips."