• Song:

    Plainclothes Man

  • Artist:

    Elliott Smith

  • Album:

    2003-01-12: Spaceland, ...

A5
You're everybody's second home
Am/B (Just Am works here, too)
Always trying to get me alone
C5              D5       F5
An easy way to lose it all
A5
Always there when all else fails
A5                        strum D5 , then F5
Over by the west side rails

But I don't really need that now
I never really did anyhow
I only really needed alcohol
Something that'll treat me okay
And wouldn't say the things you'd say

F5                  E5
Please turn out the light
        D5                           
I get a sick confusion headache trying 
                    A5
to figure out who's right

Dreaming on the silver strand
Waking up to plainclothes man
You little bastard, little boy in blue
Someone's gonna get to you
And fuck up everything you do

He's so unhappy inside
He's serious with everyone
And he thinks he'll win you with his angry kiss
Acting like he has no needs
Wanting you to watch him bleed

C5             G5              F5          C5
Made for each other bet you pay me any mind
              G5          D5         F5
Just goes to show my continual decline
      C5                 G5          F5                C5
They say that I'll recover my love of her once in a while
            D5
But I don't know
              F5
I don't think so...

There's something that I'll tell you now
Now that no one else is around
The sort of lesson that I learned from you
Not quite the way you planned
But I know you'll understand

Someone takes a photograph
A picture while their sweetheart laughs
A perfect moment in a flash of light
Counting back from 3 to 1
That's exactly what you've done

        F5        E5
And I'm so unsurprised
      D5                                             C5
I remember, I remember why I dream in black & white

         G5          D5          F5
Goes to show my continual decline
      C5               G5             F5                C5
They say that I'll recover my love of her once in a while
            D5
But I don't know
              F5
I don't think so


End: A5  D5  F5  A5
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