Elliott Smith – Junk Bond Trader (Guitar)

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Chords

Cm Ab Eb Fsus4 F Ab Bb x2
  Cm                            Ab
The imitation picks you up like a habit

Eb                       Fsus4 F Ab Bb  
Writing in the glow of the tv static

Cm                          Ab
Taking out the trash to the man

Eb                             Fsus4 F Ab Bb
Give the people something they understand

  Cm                   Ab
A stick-man flashing a fine-line smile

Eb               Fsus4     F      Ab       Bb
Junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a style

Cm            Ab
Rich man in a poor man's clothes

    Eb         Fsus4  F          Ab    Bb
The permanent installment of the daily dose

                Cm                   Ab         Eb
And you tell me off when you tell it like it is

                Fsus4 F         Ab       Bb
Your world's no wider than your hated of his

Cm              Ab 
Checking into a small reality

Eb                   Fsus4 F  Ab  Bb
Boring as a drug you take too regularly

    Cm                   Ab
The athlete's laugh; the broken crutch

    Eb                   Fsus4  F      Ab        Bb
The first true love that folded at the slightest touch

Cm                   Ab
Brought down like an old hotel

       Eb                             Fsus4  F    Ab   Bb
People digging through the rubble for things they can resell

C                Bb
"happy holidays," said sick saviour

C                  Eb/Ab  Bb/D Bb
The leaving lover I still favour

C                 
I won't take your medicine

Bb
I don't need a remedy

C                   Eb/Ab    Bb/D Bb
To be everything I'm supposed to be

C
I don't want nobody else

Bb
I can do it by myself

      C           Eb Bb/D Bb
We're meant to be together

C     Bb          Cm
ah,   ahh,     ahhh
Cm Cm/Eb Bb/D Bb Abmaj7 Bb/D Bb Bdim Cm Ab Eb Fsus4 F Ab Bb x2
    Cm                Ab
Now I'm a policeman directing traffic

        Eb                 Fsus4 F    Ab  Bb
Keeping everything moving, everything static

Cm                        Ab
I'm the hitchhiker you'll recognize passing

Eb                  Fsus4 F Ab Bb
On your way to some everlasting...

Cm     Ab                Eb  Fsus4 F Ab Bb 
Better sell it while you can

Cm     Ab                Eb  Fsus4 F Ab Bb
Better sell it while you can

Cm     Ab                Eb  Fsus4 F Ab Bb
Better sell it while you can

Cm     Ab                Eb  Fsus4 F Ab Bb Ab Bb C
Better sell it while you can