The Hold Steady – T-Shirt Tux (Guitar)

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There’s that girl from your work and she’s here with some guy

           F               Dm            C
He’s got a t-shirt tux and piano key tie

    F               D                       Am
The rest of us were rolling our eyes at the handshake

                C
He did with the doorman

    F                      Dm                           C
But that’s how he gets the stuff that makes him feel so important

       F                     Dm                    C
And we all need something to get through the night

           F                        Dm                C
'Cause the kitchen gets hot and the fingers get fried

  F              D
A Pontius Pilate played to the crowd

         C                             Am
And they all thought they knew what he wanted

    F                          D
And everyone’s sorry when they see that it’s dawn

  C                           Am
I assume that’s the reason we do this

    F                       D
And me and the guy with the piano key tie

    Am                        C
Are probably gonna play right through this

F           C         G              C
Tiny little triumphs, massive bloody failures

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I heard that there are sailors who dread coming to shore

F            C          G      C
I guess it’s true, it’s true I guess

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But tonight I fear my sensors aren’t receiving at their best

    F                         Dm                     C
And everyone's acting like they hate that they’re here

F                      Dm                C
Baring their teeth and sharpening spears

    F                          D
The stuff that they put in the punch bowl tonight

         Am                   C
Makes it too hard to pay much attention

         F                       Dm                  C
But your war of attrition turned out to be a major attraction

  F                   Dm                   C
A boy and a girl were draining their beers

        F                           Dm               C
He said “Stalin was a weatherman to start his career

    F                      D                Am                     C
And Johnny Cash was in the service when the news came through the wire

         F                       D
And it’s weird how you feel when bad people die”

         C              Am
She said “Yeah I guess, whatever

         F                    Dm                       C
All your fun little facts are never going to keep us together”

      F      C              G          C
We'll all be doomed once we leave this room

      F                    C
We’re spinning through the turnstiles

          G               C
And we’re sleeping in our shoes

            F      C
Well we’re sad and stoned

            G                C
When we’re all hooked up at home

            F                     C
But when we leave the house we’re homesick

        G             
Got the disconnection blues

           F           C                G                   
There were multiple dispensers and some friends we couldn’t use

                                         F            C
There’s a candle on the table, there’s a photo on the fridge

          F                  C                  G                C
There’s a bunch of things we said we were gonna do and never did

              F                    C
And trying to find a place to park

F            C           G             C
Turning on a burner that never catches spark

                                      F                 C
They said everything’s perception but that’s not really right

F                C             G            C
Let’s all try to tell a little truth tonight

F                C             G            C
Let’s all try to tell a little truth tonight