'Cause

Intro: E C F# Am E 

        E               A
Cause I lost my job
                 E              A
Two weeks before Christmas.
      E                                 A
And I talked to Jesus at the sewer
                                        E                       A
And the Pope said it was none of his God-damned business.

          E                     A
While the rain drank champagne
                        E                       A
My Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted.
          E                             A
Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got
                        E               A
Is the one I've never tasted.

                   E             A      G#m
Oh! But they'll take their bonus pay
                B
To Molly McDonald.
E           A                                   G#m
Neon ladies,    beauty is that which obeys...
             B          E
Is bought or borrowed.

         E                              A               E       A
Cause my heart's become a crooked hotel         full of rumours.
         E                      A
But it's I who pays the rent
                                E       A
For these fingered-face out-of-tuners.
        E                               A               E       A
And I make 16 solid half hour friendships       every evening.
           E
Cause your queen of hearts, who is half a stone
                    A                                    E       A
And likes to laugh alone, is always threatening you with leaving

            E                A          G#m
Oh but they play those token games
                B
On Willy Thompson.
E                                  A    G#m
And give a medal to replace the son
                B
Of Mrs. Annie Johnson

           E                                            A
Cause they told me everybody's got to pay their dues
                                E                       A
And I explained that I had overpaid them.
        E                               A
So overdued I went to the company store
                                                 E              A
And the clerk there said that they had just been invaded.
        E                   A                           E         A
So I set sail in a teardrop     and escaped beneath the doorsill.
          E                     A                       E       A
Cause the smell of her perfume          echoes in my head still.

E A (2x)

        E                                       A
Cause I see my people trying to drown the sun
                        E       A
In weekends of whiskey sours.
          E                                             A
Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book
          E             A
And plant flowers?

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