Okkervil River – Lido Pier Suicide Car (Guitar)

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[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.