• Song:

    Blanket And Crib

  • Artist:

    Okkervil River

  • Album:

    Down the River of Golde...

CAPO on 2nd

 C5           A5                         C5
Safe, safe, enjoy your time feeling so safe,
      A5                         E5
and treasure that smile on your face,
              A5                         D5           G5
okay? Because time will see that it's replaced in a while.
           C5            A5                               C5         A5
So go on, smile. And handshakes all around- that's your style, and no one
                E5                A5                       D5
would call it denial, for you're not even sure what's in store, Though it's
 G5
more.
                F5       C5                 G5                        A5
Than you'll be able to take standing up straight. And it won't be okay.
                   F5      C5                      G5 
And you won' be somebody who it's just happening to, because it's a trap
      D5                 
that you, and only you, 
       C5                A5                 C5
have laid, laid with a towel up over your face,
           A5                    E5
in your armchair, just lying in wait,
           A5                    D5           G5
 waiting forces were gathering outside your door.
                       C5                 A5                              C5
They sharpened their knives, knives and smiled with no smiles in their eyes, 
   A5                   E5          A5                 D5             G5
a little bit larger in size and a little bit hungrier for that tiny prize. 
         F5          C5                   G5                           A5
And my mother once said "Son, remember this, no matter what someone did:
            F5               C5                    G5                  A5
that they once were just a kid at breast and in bib, in blanket and crib. 
         F5              G5                   C5                     A5
So just reach inside yourself and find the part that still needs help, 
           F5        C5                         G5
find that part in someone else and you'll do good", so
                   D5
I thought that I would.

( F5 - C5 - F5 - C5 - F5 - C5 - G5 - A5 ) X2

 C5     A5                         C5
Hey I love you, it goes without saying. 
         A5                      E5
I would give you the world on a tray, though
          A5
they're already tracing a
D5                  G5
line across your throat. 
         C5
Far too late in the game you'll
 A5
find that you have been
   C5              A5                       E5
betrayed: propped up and pushed into your place. 
         A5               
I could claim that it all would
     D5                      G5                       C5     F5
go great, but the reason I came is to say that it won't.
                         C5          F5
You should know that it won't, 
                         C5          F5
You should know that it won't, 
                         G5         D5     G5          C5
You should know that it won't, and so, Phillip, let go.


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