The Hold Steady – Unpleasant Breakfast (Guitar)

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[Verse]
                 A        B
Every morning we burn the bread

                    A      E
Walk it down to the waters edge

                     A      B
See the seagulls eat cigarettes

                       A     E
Check your breath in a spoon

                      D       B
All your stuff in the storage shed

                      A       E
Twisted sheets on the trundle bed

                A      B
And the anti-psychosis meds

                    A      E
Made you feel all marooned
[Pre-chorus]
B
Last summer at the shore when I was working cleaning carpets

A
At some hotel that was haunted by some sailor who supposedly was murdered

E
After losing all his treasure in the harbor

A
That's back when I found romance in these ghosts
[Chorus]
B     A
I was honestly more bothered

E      A
By the hundred miles of hallways

B        A
Than the clanking of the shackles

E      A
Or the shadows in the doorway

B      A
And we snuck into the ballroom

E        A
And made echoes in its empty

B     A
And I grabbed you and I spun you

E
And we both just started laughing
A B x4 [Verse]
                     A   B
All the burns on the windowsill

                       A      E
Says she's crazy 'bout horses still

                     A   B
All these anti-psychosis pills

                  A     E
So much power and grace

                  D     B
Up there on South Ocean View

                       A        E
All the shells made me think of you

                 A         B
We bought into a three for two

                 A     E
And a strawberry shake
[Pre-Chorus]
B
First it's April then it's August, it's the cost of doing business

A
You were scared and overcautious, the whole breakfast was unpleasant

E
You just can't keep throwing up and then cover it with sawdust

A
And expect us not to notice and pretend it didn't happen
[Chorus]
B    A
Last summer at the shoreline

E        A
When you walked into the water

B    A
Went out up to your waistline

E          A
And turned back to face the camera

B           A
Rolled your eyes back in their sockets

E        A
Then you raised your middle fingers

B A
Defiant and undamaged

E
That's when I took the picture
[Interlude] B B A E E A E A [Bridge] B A/B
    A                 E
And this year we were standing
B A/B
        A           E
Looking out off the veranda
B A/B
           A                  E
You said, "Yeah, I guess it's pretty
B A/B
          A               E
But I'm a shell of what I once was"
B A/B
     A                   E
That girl in last year's picture
B A/B
       A                E
Is now haunting her own hallways
[Outro] B A/B
     A                               E
I no longer see the romance in these ghosts

              B                   A/B
This coffee's cold, this toast is gross

     A                               E
I no longer see the romance in these ghosts