The Hold Steady – Sixers (Guitar)

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E                              _
    She got a sixer from the store down the street

A                       _
    Stayed up watching basketball replays

E                              _
    There's a reason that she can't go to sleep

A                            _
    And it's got nothing to do with LeBron James

C#m                    B               A  _
    Has to do with a chemical reaction

    C#m                        B                        A  _
    Stimulated synapses, the snapping and the crackling

         E                            B                  C#m  A
    The doctor gave her something to focus her attention

                 E                       B                      C#m  A
    She's got a six month supply in the cupboard in the kitchen

                     B        _
Upstairs, she hears footsteps

                 A  _
And she has an idea

E                            D/E
    He's home late from some dinner and some drinks

A                              _
    Another Friday with the suits in the steakhouse

E                          D/E
    Asset management's as thrilling as you'd think

              A
    But they pay him pretty well

              E
    Now he's renting out the penthouse

   C#m                             B                  A  _
He hasn't met the neighbors, he's new to the building

          C#m                           B                   A  _
So he's a little bit surprised when he notices the knocking

        E                            B                          C#m  A
When he opens up the door, it's the girl that lives beneath him

               E                          B                              C#m  A
She said, "I know it's pretty late and I hope that you weren't sleeping"

                                B        _
She says she thought she heard footsteps

                 A  _
And she had an idea

          E                        B
    He'd seen her at the mailbox, made a little small talk

A                         _
    Now she's here in his entrance

      E                                B
    Shaking up the bottle like she's playing the maracas

A                              _
    Says she's high and she's restless

             E                            B
    He puts something on the stereo, it sounds like it's Sinatra

D                                  A
    She thinks that seems a bit square

                  E                              B                        A   _
    But there's things you overlook when you're getting with the guy upstairs

          B                              E/G#
      She opens up the bottle and starts pouring out the pills

        A                            _
      Crush it on the counter being careful not to spill

       B                       E/G#
      He starts mixing drinks, measuring the gin

       A                           _
      Getting down the glassware, muddling the mint

            B                        E/G#
      They talk about their work and where they went to school

               A                             _
      How the city's kind of changed, how it used to be so cool

            B                             E/G#                  A
      It's hard to make friends when your job  is so demanding

C#m   B
     Sunrise into sundown

      A
     Sending out for takeout

     C#m                                 B
     Finally tries to kiss her and she says that it's not like that

A            -
     Now he wished he wouldn't have done that

           E
     Cause everything is awkward

              B
     And the conversation slows

      E
     She cleans off the countertop

           A                            B  _
     And says that she should probably go

           E                        B
    She'd seen him at the mailbox flipping through the mail drop

E                                _
    She wasn't sure how to start it

      E                               B
    Spent the lost weekend trying to find a small connection

         E                             _
    At least, she got to see his apartment

E                          B
    A Nagel poster in the silver frame

D/E                                  A
    She thought that seemed kind of lame

         E                                B                          D   _
    She wakes up late for work with the sniffles and the spiraling shame

E                                B
    Later in the fall, when she sees him in the hallway

A                                  _
    She makes a point to be friendly

           E                                B
    He's standing with some baby that he's calling his fiancée

         A                         _
    Her name is either Kelly or Katie

            E
    She's glad they found each other

         B
    The wedding's next September

            D                            A
    She's planning her own party tonight

      E                   B                         A         _
    Crushing up pills at home, watching basketball highlights

                      B        _
She thinks she hears footsteps

                             A
But now they're not really there