Pink-Slips Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][Em][Am][C][D]

[Verse 1]
[G]Three
brides before breakfast
[Em]These reds, they're just rectus
[Am]Right hand on my heart around
[C]My left hand [D]snaps your necklace
[G]Each day is a little more scary
[Em]Holding on, get away just barely
[Am]Moms and dads are rationing [C]their cash
For the com[D]missary
But [Bm]I can't st[Em]op without
[C]going [D]all the [Bm]way[Em]
It's [Am]a habit, someone [D]gave me up
[G]This man in the black cage,
ca[Em]nary 'the clips
Across [Am]here,
[D]in a pink- slip

[Interlude 1]
[G][Em][Am][C][D]

[Verse 2]
[G]This wish just to going bac[Em]k here
When I know it wasn't ever,
ever happening
[Am]Show me my best memory,
it's [C]probably su[D]per crappy
[G]Not here, standing sex[Em]less
with sluts of both sexes
[Am]Liars, lumps and drug addicts and [C]drunks
I [D]love my friends but [Bm]I can't st[Em]op
without [C]going [D]all the [Bm]way[Em]
And I've [Am]been that way [D]since '83
[G]Oh, midwife with a jet life or a
[Em]genie with a golden spur
[Am]A price to pay to [D]pink- slips
[G]

[Verse 3]
A country Cadillac in the
valley of mirrors
[Em]With a cold cane, there was nobody here
[Am]Came for the communism,
I kissed it on the lips
[C]It came with the singers [D]in hazel
[Bm]pink- slips

[Interlude 2]
[Em][Am][D][G][Em]
[G][Em]

[Verse 4]
Is [G]it a kiss or it's just a dream
and I'm drifting?
[Em]Other fish lay lifted,
[Am]only happy till the [C]age of 10
It's [Em]still a [G]gift, but we [Bm]can't go back,
[Em]those two [C]too sad and [D]dies[Bm][Em]
It's just [Am]a dream we all [D]have
[G]Now I know in the touch lane,
[Em]a post per post of puckered lips
[Am]From Academy Awards [D]to pink- slips
[G]I show them my Corvette
with no ' for years
And I'm stand[Em]ing in the rain to get
the champagne or beer[Am]s
They said 'who's that shadow
sneaking up behind the pier?'
He was [D]rushing he was rattled
now he's finally in the clear
To be a, [G]a refugee from the rat race
with a [Em]swag tuxedo in his face
[Am]A music room that you can't place,
[D]sing the songs on all them tapes
He's [G]the lonely aid on the planet ' now he
[Em]doesn't even write, he just rows
And they [C]cover up his cot with [D]pink- slips