Genius Next Door Chords by Regina Spektor

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] Some said the local lake [Bbm] had been _ enchanted
_ _ _ [Eb] Others said it must have been [Ab] the weather _ _ _ _
[Fm] The neighbors were trying to keep it [Bbm] quiet
_ _ _ _ [Cm] But I swear that [Eb] I could hear the [Ab] laughter _ _ _
_ [Fm] So they jokingly nicknamed it [Bbm] the porridge
_ _ [Eb] Cause overnight that lake had turned as thick [Ab] as butter
_ But [Fm] _ the local kids would still go [Bbm] swimming, _ drinking _
_ [Eb] Saying that to them it doesn't [Ab]
matter
_ If you [Bbm] just _ hold _ in [Db] your breath _ _
_ Till you [G] _ come back _ [Ab] up in full _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ Hold in your _ breath
[G] Till you start it through, _ you [Ab] fool
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_ _ [Fm] The genius next door was [Bbm] bussing tables
_ _ [Ab] Wiping [Eb] clean the ketchup bottle [Ab] labels _
_ Getting _ [Fm] _ high and mumbling German [Bbm] fables
_ Didn't _ [Eb] _ care as long as he was [Ab] able
_ _ _ _ [Fm] To strip his clothes off by [Bbm] the _ dumpster
_ _ [Gm] At night while everyone [Ab] was sleeping _ _ _
[Fm] And wait midway into that [Bbm]
porridge
_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ Just him and his secret he was [Ab] keeping _ _
If you [Bbm] just _ _ hold _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ Till you [G] come back up [Ab] in full
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ Hold _ in your _ _ breath
Till you [G] start it through, _ [Ab] you _ foolish _ _ _ [Fm]
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_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] In the morning the film crew started [Bbm] arriving _ _
[Ab] _ _ With donuts, [Eb] coffee and [Ab] reporters
_ The _ [Fm] _
kids were waking up _ [Bbm] hungover
_ The _ [Eb] _ neighbors were starting up [Ab] their _ cars _
_ [Fm] The garbage men were emptying the [Bbm] _ _ dumpsters
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Atheists were praying full of [Ab] _ sarcasm
_ _ [Cm] _ [Fm] And the genius next door [Bbm] was sleeping _ _ _
_ [Eb] Dreaming that the antidote [Ab] is _ orgasm
If [Bbm] you just _ _ _ hold
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_ Till you [G] come back up [Ab] in _ full
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[Bbm] _ _ Hold in your [Db] _
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Till you [G] start it through, [Ab] you _ _ foolish [Fm] _ _ child _ _ _ _
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