Okkervil River – Oh Precious (Guitar)

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[Verse]
  E
I live in a building where nobody knows me,

                                 D
I go to bed early, I sleep in my clothes.

   A
At night I hear screaming down in the street,

                                          D  A
I dream that I'm slipping, I reach for my fe-et.
[Chorus]
B                A             E
Precious, we are falling down, catch us.

B                A             E
Precious, we are falling down, catch us.

   D   A           E
Oh no, down we go again.

   D   A           E
Oh no, down we go again.
[Verse]
  E
I fill in the holes in my vision with dexedrine,

    E
the landscape spins sideways, the movies and magazines

D
whisper as they hide on soft silky surfaces

A                                                  E
surely my neighbors and friends have ther purposes here.

    E
The building is maddening, thirty floors high

                                            D
they are building a needle that pierces the sky

       A
like a cold vaccination, like a smile through a polaroid,

A
surely my neighbors and friends want to be destroyed.
[Chorus]
B                A             E
Precious, we are falling down, catch us.

B                A             E
Precious, we are falling down, catch us.

   D   A           E
Oh no, down we go again.

   D   A           E
Oh no, down we go again.

    D    A      E
Ohh ohhh Ohhhhh Ohhhhh

   D   A
Oh no, down we go, so
[Verse]
E                                                     D
Lend me a leaf from the rill, lifting the dreams from you,

                                                 E
they sift through the meshes of the ancient afternoon.

E                                                   D
Leave me alone for awhile, leave me alone with your smile,

    D                               A                               B
and listen to the breaking, all the buildings we are making will be gone.
D A E D A E
B                A             E
Precious, we are falling down, catch us. x3

B                A                           E
Precious, we are falling down, falling down, catch us.