The Hold Steady – Lanyards (Guitar)

            G#m
When you're stuck out in the middle

                                              Emaj7
You just figure that there's something you're missing

             G#m
But it turns out that California

                                   Emaj7    Badd9
Is just tripping and disinterested kissing

G#m
Back in my hometown

                                     Emaj7
There was nothing but the hum of the locusts

        G#m
And the rest of my life

                                   Emaj7    Badd9
To get used to being washed out of showbiz

      F#
I was down around the docks

      G#m              Emaj7
But I never saw anyone surfing

       F#                             G#m
From a distance it looked pretty much perfect

                      Emaj7
But it's different in person

    F#
The doctor said he only wants

   G#m                       Emaj7
To help me make more healthy decisions

     Emaj7sus2
Went out around the Fourth of July and I was back by Thanksgiving

  B
I danced around the subject

                               F#                    E
I swam in the Pacific like the westernmost American

B
Lanyards into laminates

                              F#                       E
Everybody's trying to get the right kind of wristband

B
Banging on the door again

                           F#                          E
She just wasn't answering, showbiz is a struggle, man

B
Someone called an ambulance

                                     F#                     E
Straightened out her necklace and we sped to Good Samaritan

     G#m                                              Emaj7
That girl from the Genesee Cleaners wasn't from there either

   G#m                                              Emaj7    Badd9
We sunk into the seats downtown at some second shot theater

            G#m                                               Emaj7
She took me home to her place in a camper van behind some old warehouse

         G#m                                                Emaj7      Badd9
Said she couldn't come down and crash until we listened to 'Wipe Out'

    F#
Her character's cool

           G#m                  Emaj7
She's just dialing in her motivation

      F#
She's into new things

        G#m                    Emaj7
But she won't go to a second location

      F#
She's never gone deep

        G#m                         Emaj7
But she might make an exception for Shark Week

          Emaj7sus2
When they kicked in the door, they said, "That's way too much blood for a nosebleed"

B
Hospital security

                           F#                      E
Everybody needs to see the right color wristband

    B
She said she had a meeting

                                    F#                          E
I thought they were mistaken, but depression isn't kidding, man

    B
The scene stuck in my head of her spread out on her bed

           F#                        E
Like she's showing off her wingspan

  B
I sat in heavy traffic

                                 F#                          E
I drowned in the Pacific, then I went back to the heartland

     F#
The doctor said he only wants

   G#m                        Emaj7
To help me make some better decisions

     F#                       G#m
Went out around the Fourth of July

                        Emaj7
And I was back by Thanksgiving

  F#
I saw a few stars

      G#m                  Emaj7
But I never made it into a movie

      F#
Still trying to make moves

        G#m                     Emaj7
But I'm back in Independence, Missouri