Source Decay Chords by The Mountain Goats

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Once a week I make the [F#] drive two hours east [A] to check the Austin post office [E] box.
I take the detour _ [F#] through our old neighborhood [A] to see all the Chevy Impalas [B] in their footyards
up on [A] blocks.
And I park in an alley [B] and I read through the postcards [E] you keep and you to [A] send.
_ [F#] Where as indirectly as you can [A] you ask what I remember.
I [E] like these torture devices [B] from my old best friend.
[C#m] Well I'll tell you what I know, [F#] like I swore I always would.
[Em] _ [A] _ I don't think it's gonna [B] do you any good.
[E] I remember [A] the train [E] headed south [A] out of Bangkok [B] down _ _ [A] toward _ [E] the water.
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_ _ _ always get a late start [F#] when the sun's going down [A] and the traffic's thinning out
[E] and the glare is hard to take.
I wish the West Texas Highway [F#] was a Mobius strip.
[A] I could ride it out forever.
[B] When I feel my heart break [A] I almost swear I fear it happened.
[B] It's that clear and that hard.
[E] I come in off the highway [A] and I park in my foot yard.
[C#m] I fall out of the car [F#] like a hostage from a plane.
[A] Think of you a while.
[B] Start wishing it would rain [E] and I remember [A] the train [E] headed south [A] out of Bangkok [B] down _ _ _ [A] toward the [E] water.
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] I come into the house, [Em] [F#] put on a pot of coffee, [Em] _ [A] _
walk the floors a [E] little while.
_ I send your postcard on the [Em] table [F#] with all the others like it.
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I start sorting through the [B] pile.
_ [A] I check the pictures and the postmarks [B] and the captions and the stamps.
[E] There's none of any pattern at [A] all.
_ _ [F#] When I come up empty handed [A] the feeling almost overwhelms me.
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I let a few of [B] my defenses fall [C#m] and I smile a bitter smile.
[F#] It's not a pretty thing to [A] see.
I think about a railroad platform [B] back in 1983 [A] and I [E] remember [A] the train [Em] headed south out [A] of Bangkok [B] down _
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