You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man chords by Okkervil River

Intro:
A

Verse 1:
A
This week's cash for last week's grass
      D          Bm
Your crew collates while you sit in the van and wait
A
Gassed and trashed and smashed young cads
     D     Bm
Roasting away on a sunny summer day
   E            F#m D
(Or, okay, an August night anyway)

Verse 2:
           E
And you're living on air
              F#m
While on the 25th floor, up there
           D         E
They'd fan a million bucks before your face
     D        E               F#m
Marie's passed out in a chair with her once fussed-over hair
          D           E
All mussed into an I've-just-been-fucked shape

Verse 3:
             A
Just an hour before, she crashed, all cashed
                             D
She said, "I'm done with looking back, and you look your age
     Bm          E         F#m  D
Which is thirty-seven, by the way and not twenty-eight
           E                  F#m
And fucking let them stare, because at this point I don't care
                D       E
I have been your bride stripped bare since '98
     D      E                 F#m
And our silver-screen affair, it weighs less to me than air
            D         E
It's a gas now. It's a laugh just how far several mil can take it"

Instrumental:
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Verse 4:
A                      D
This week's as fast as last week's flash of interstate
     Bm
When you starved and never ate
A                         D
This week's splashed a sick, gold cast across your face
    Bm              E          F#m  D
As you roam on silk ripped tippy-toe alone through Silver lake

Verse 5:
               E              F#m
Splayed astride a snow-white mare on a non-stop all-night tear
             D        E
What a ghastly sight you smear in every face
    D        E                F#m
In that fat, fur-trimmed affair that your lawyer lets you wear
               D      E
You'll destroy your chance to ever get repeatedly engaged

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