Chords for Tim Barry - Avoiding Catatonic Surrender (Live at the Grist Mill)

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_ _ _ [G] _ _ [F] I'm lucky enough to play music.
[G] _ That's like the luckiest thing that [C] ever happened in my [B] fucking life.
_ [Am] _ I'm also lucky enough to [F] have a job in [G] a trade outside of music [C] because [G] music [A] always stops
and then people have nothing to do [F] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ and no way to get by.
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So here, _ macho ass me, I work for a ballet company.
[F] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ And you know what?
[C] I'm not [G] saying this for [Am] anything other than the fact [Em] that fucking [Dm] ballet is the [F] most badass
[G] sport I've ever seen in my life.
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_ And with that [Em] said, [F] I do everything from cut wood [G] to fucking lay marley floors and [C] hang
drops [Em] and then they send [Am] me to do the most macho job of [Dm] all [Am] frequently and that's [G] driving trucks.
_ _ _ [Am] _ And I'd like to thank the Richmond Ballet for sending me to [F] the unfortunate state of
New [G] Jersey one time to pick up some [C] lighting shit for fucking [Em] Giselle or [Am] fucking Romeo
and Juliet [F] or fucking Nutcracker or whatever [G] the fuck it was.
_ [Am] Because I wrote this song there and this song sucks.
_ _ [C] It's lonely in the Garden [Am] State, the place of no left [E] turns.
The Motel 6 in East Brunswick, [G] smoking till my lungs burn.
I [C] put ice in the trash can [Am] to cool down my beer.
Breathing [F] the perfume in the room [G] of the person last here.
I [C] can't stand this singing.
_ [Am] I can't stand this song.
[Em] [F] I can't stand being home, [G] Lord.
I can't stand being gone.
My [C] ears ring when it's quiet [Em] [Am] and I ain't heard a thing all [A] day.
And [F] I'd call if I could, but [G] right now I ain't got nothing to say.
[F] And so on, _
[G] _ so long.
_ _ [C] _
I can't [Em] keep singing [Am] these _ songs for [F] too long.
_ _ [G] _ _
_ And [Am] so on. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I have an honesty problem. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D]
Everyone in this room has done this. _
_ Not with me, but you've all done this.
_ _ _ _ _ _ The [C] first night we met, we fucked [Am] on the couch in my living room.
[F] Spend the morning pretending it didn't happen.
[G] Searching for your lost phone, [C] which I found between the cushions.
[Am] Below a pile of our clothes.
[F] You said you couldn't leave without it, Lord.
[G] I should have kept my eyes closed.
I [C] left for work directly then.
[Am] For a 15 hour day, [F] made just over a hundred [G] bucks.
None of which I ever saved.
[Em] Didn't hear too much from you before.
[Am] Never heard from you again.
[Em] [F] Because as soon as this shit starts, boy, [G] it's bound to end.
[F] And so on, _ _ [G] so long. _
[C] _ _ [Em] Can't keep singing [Am] these _ songs for [F] too _ _ [G] long.
_ _ _ [Am] And so on.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I'd like to thank Canadians all through the United States history.
We have fleed consistently to one country.
_ That _ _ goes all the way back to the Civil War. _ _ _
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_ Vietnam, Gulf War I, _ Gulf War II, _ Afghanistan. _ _
_ Activists, folks, thank you for hosting all of us. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I _ _ _ _ [C] throw empty beer cans at the TV [Am] when I'm watching the news.
[F#] [F] I hate Republicans, I hate [G] Democrats, I hate liberals too.
[C] I think pacifists are weak.
[Am] And violence is wrong.
But [F] I go live for police and I fight [G] what it's called for.
[C] The truth is I don't know or care with who or where [Am] I fit in at all.
But [Dm] I keep on living [G] simple, right?
Faster, living slow.
I write standard boring songs [A] with boring standard chords.
Just [F] like the best and the worst verse, chorus, [G] verse, chorus, bridge, repeat. _
_ _ _ [F] And so on, [G] and so _ _ long.
[C]
I [G] can't keep [Am] singing these songs for [F] too _ _ _ [G] long. _
_ And [Am] so on, _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] and so [F]
on, and [G] so long.
_ [C] _
I can't [Em] keep singing [Am] these _ songs for [F] too long.
_ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] And so _ on.
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