Lido Pier Suicide Car chords by Okkervil River

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
C Em G Em

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

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

C D C Em

Chorus:
F     G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F     G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F     G
Lido Pier suicide car.
        C        Em      F
It's a straight shot drive to a life full of stars.

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

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

C D C Em

   F     G
in a Lido Pier suicide car.
F     G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F     G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F     G
Lido Pier suicide, suicide.
F     G
Lido Pier suicide car.

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

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

         F     G
Something about a Lido Pier suicide car.
F     G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F     G        C
Lido Pier suicide suicide car.