Okkervil River Rip

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Am7   002010
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C/B   020010


[Verse 1]

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Hey, my little baby, pointing at the sky's amazing in the lake now.
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All of this sensation and no space on earth to place it where it's safe now.
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You've got a big day coming. A big day coming now.


[Verse 2]

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Gather, crowd, around me, in the gutter where you found me. Help me stand now.
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My body, it is aching, and my poor old heart is breaking, and I'm so freaked out.
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We've got a big chance coming. A big chance coming now.


[Verse 3]

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All the little Sadies and the literary ladies wish me well now.
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A slob upon a plane that through the air is silver swaying into sun now.
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I hightail my cool haircut through the turnstiles of the airport on the run now
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Flip a couple hundred pages; I was turning thirty-eight. I was a horrible sight.
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You've got a bad day coming. A sad day coming 'round.
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I'll wear a white suit and black sunglasses to the last mass now.

N.C.
Okay.


[Bridge]

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Then give me one last kiss in your pink silk dress, I guess.
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Said, "I have lost all will to," with my face pressed against your breast.
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And I have pilfered the king's pills From the palace medicine chest.
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I cried a quart of crocodile tears onto Allison Anne's pink champagne glass.
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I was escorted from the premises for being a mess.


[Verse 4]

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And it's just like when John Howe told me how the Force MDs died.
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Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low. Mercury had a heart attack back in '95.
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And where DJ Doctor Rock went nobody knows.


[Verse 5]

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I see my grandfather, T. Holmes "Bud" Moore laid up in his hospital clothes.
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But I think about Judee Sill dying in some trailer park, out of cocaine and codeine all alone.
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It was a big waste, brother. Such a big waste. Yeah, I know.
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They had some great songs; must have been a great time, so long ago.
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But I didn't open up my mouth just to piss and moan.

N.C.
No way.


[Outro]

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All the air is glitter and I went and hit the skating rink alone now.
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I'll watch the kids all skim across the ice. They look so nice. It was so cold out.
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And then I coughed into my cupped hands across the rink so I could hear the band.

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Two guitars, a drummer, a chick singer with a Kurzweil on a keyboard stand.
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And I said, "Play that cover," I said, "Play that cover song again."