Okkervil River – Plus Ones (Guitar)

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No one wants to hear about your 97th tear, 

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so dry your eyes or let it go 

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uncried, my dear. I am all out of love to mouth into your ear, and not above 

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letting a love song disappear before it's written. 

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    And no one wants a tune about the 100th luftballoon that was seen 

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shooting from the window of your room, to be a spot against the sky's 

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colossal gloom and land, deflated, in some neighbor state that's strewn with 

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99 others.   

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     8 Chinese brothers; well, there's a reason why the last is smiling wide 

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and sitting higher than the others,

               Em          G A
swinging his arms.

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You would probably die before you shot up 9 miles high

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Your eyes dilated as light played upon the sight

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Of TVC16 as it sings you goodnight

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Relaxed as hell and locked up in cell 45

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I hope you're feeling better

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51st way to leave your lover

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Admittedly, it doesn't seem to be as gentle or as clean as all the others

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Even a scars all in the after hours of some Greenpoint bar

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I told you, I can't listen, baby, 'bout the 4th time you were a lady

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and how your forthrightness betrayed a secret shyness

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Stripped away by days of being hailed as "your highness"

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And what's new pussycat, as you were once a lionness

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They cut your claws out

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Kitten, not everyone's keen on lighting candle 17, 

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the party's done, the cake's all gone, the plates are clean

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The chauffeur's leering from the cheerless mezzanine

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And in just one year, this straight world could pay to see 

Em                        Em  G  A 
what they have been missing

Em                                   A   
You were caught kissing 8 chinese brothers

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Well, there's a reason why the last is smiling wide and sitting higher than the others

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Stinking with charm

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And he says, "Lets get lost, let them send out alarms

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He says, "Let's get crossed out and come to harm"

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"Lets make the world's stupidest stand and truly mean it

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Lets hit the limit of loss over lover's arms

Em
No, lets exceed it"