The Mountain Goats – Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds (Guitar)

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[Intro] E [Verse 1]
          E
There's indifference on the wind, but a faint gust of hope

E
At a club nobody goes to, with a musty velvet rope

        A
Guys in Motörhead jackets who knew him way back when

E
Haven't raised a drink in years but now meet up again

     D                               A
To remember how it was when they all thought they'd move away

    E                                                       A
And ride in Lotus 7s through the London streets one day
[Chorus 1]
B                 E       A
Nobody ever gets away

B                        A         B       C
Even the best of us come back some day

       D                         E                   A
To the unmarked rooms, where the dry dust breeds

       E           A              B         E
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
[Verse 2]
          E
There's a rusted fog machine in a concrete storage space

E
Letter-number combinations with no meaning on its face

           A
They won't make these anymore, it's a wooden coach-n-four

   E
No-one will even steal it if you leave it by the door

   D                           A
No sign to mark it's going, no tombstone for its grave

           E                                                  A
There will be goodbyes by dozens, so practice being brave
[Chorus 2]
B                      E        A
No-one anticipates the rush

B                         A        B         C
The breezy feeling of the faceless crush

       D                        E                  A
At the end of things, where the salvage bleeds

       E           A             B          Eaug
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
[Bridge]
                      E       B        G#m           C#m
They don't throw him a parade, he just comes in on a train

    Am6                         E
One suitcase in his hand and an old army backpack

         A
From the Second World War

           B
From a Leipzig secondhand store
E Eaug E [Verse 3]
         E
Pick the keys up from the agent, everything's been taken care of

E
No big changes in the roadways since you've left that I'm aware of

          A
A few old buildings gone to dust and some new ones in the way

        E
They'll look just like the old ones when the winds have had their say

        D                          A
See the children bound for London; you'll all be back too

     E                                                     A
Everybody tests the membrane but no-one pushes through
[Chorus 3]
B                        E         A
Come on boys that'll be enough

B                                     A       B         C
You'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough

       D                          E                        A
Like a basket by the Nile, hiding down among the reeds

       E           A              B
Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds
[Outro] E Eaug E