Okkervil River – Pop Lie (Ukulele)

B                        A          E
    all sweetly sung and succinctly stated

A                       E
    words and music he calculated

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     to  make you sing along

 B
     with your stereo on as you stand in shorts on your lawn

B                     A    E
     get completely incorporated

A                       E
     by some couple who consummated

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     all their love by the dawn

       B
   a falling star wished upon that flashed in the sky and was gone

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     and mouths wet      and blonde hair braided

A                         E
     by the back room the kids all waited

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     to meet the man in bright green

      B
   who had dreamed up the dream that they wrecked their hearts upon

         A        E           B
he’s the liar who lied in his pop song

           F#m                  B
and you’re lying when you sing along

           F#m                 B
yes you’re lying when you sing along

B                              A       E
     so here’s the car seat so cruelly weighted

A                          E
     and here’s to faces already faded

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  at the end of a day

       B
     when they just threw away the only good thing that they owned

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and now they’re    pinned down      and strangula---ted

A                          E
    at the food court the float’s inflated

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    people line up to see

      B
          the man who dreamed up the dream that they wrecked their hearts upon

         A        E           B
he’s the liar who lied in his pop song

    A        E           B
the liar who lied in his pop song

           F#m                 B
and you’re lying when you sing along,

               F#m                 B
oh yeah you’re lying when you sing along

A                          B
     week by week it climbs up and climbs on

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and we’re feeling all right but we know it’s all wrong

A                     B                   E
     I’m ashamed to admit that I cannot resist

                    F#m
what I wish were the truth but it’s not

      A       E              B
and I truly believe we’re not strong

          A              E         B
and we’ll sing until our voices are gone

         A                E        B
and then sink beneath the manicured lawn

B                         A   E
     This is respectfully dedicated

A                     E
     to the woman who concentrated

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     all of her love to find

  B
     that she had wasted it on the liar who lied in this song