• Song:

    Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe

  • Artist:

    Okkervil River

  • Album:

    The Stage Names

Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe (demo version)
Capo 2
Intro: D (strum once)

            D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1)                 D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1)   A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4      
It's just a bad movie, where there's no crying
            D (xx0232@1)   G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1) A(keep (x02220@1)strumming Alightly (x02220@1)till G)
handing the key to me in this Red Lion,
          G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)                D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1)   A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4where (x02230@1)the lock that you locked in the suite says there's no prying.
        G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)                     D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1)      A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4When (x02230@1)the breath that you breathed in the street screams there's no science.
         G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)   A (x02220@1)    A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4                      
When you look how you looked then to me, then I cease lying         and fall into silence.
G D G D Dsus2 A Asus4 Asus4

           D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1)    A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4It's (x02230@1)just a life story, so there's no climax.
            D (xx0232@1) G (320003@1)            D (xx0232@1)      A (x02220@1)  A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4No (x02230@1)more new territory, so pull away the imax.
        G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)                G (320003@1)            D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1)     A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4In (x02230@1)the slot that you sliced through the scene there was no shyness.
        G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)                 G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1)   
In the plot that you passed through your teeth there was no pity.
            G (320003@1)    D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1)  Asus4No (x02230@1)fade in: film begins on a kid in the big city.
       G (320003@1)      D (xx0232@1)      G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1)    A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4And (x02230@1)no cut to a costly parade (that's for him only!).
      G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1)  A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4 (x02230@1)  
No dissolve to a sliver of grey (that's his new lady!)
          G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)             G (320003@1)                 D (xx0232@1)    A (x02220@1)   G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D Dsus2 (xx0230@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A Asus4x3
where she glows just like grain on the flickering pane of some great movie.

            D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1)     A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4It's (x02230@1)just a house burning, but it's not haunted.
           D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)  AIt (x02220@1)was your heart hurting, but not for long, kid.
        G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1)      A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4In (x02230@1)the socket you spin from with ease there is no sticking.
           G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)    A (x02220@1)      A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4From (x02230@1)the speakers your fake masterpiece is serenely dribbling.
          G (320003@1)            D (xx0232@1)             G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)    A (x02220@1)    A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4When (x02230@1)the air round your chair fills with heat, that's the flames licking
             G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)  A (x02220@1)       A (x02220@1)name="chord_x02230@1">Asus4 Asus4beneath (x02230@1)the clock on the clean mantelpiece. It's got a calm clicking,
        G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)     G (320003@1)             D (xx0232@1)   A (x02220@1)        Asus4 (x02230@1)          G (320003@1)   D (xx0232@1) 
like a pro at his editing suite takes two weeks stitching        up some bad movie.
G D Dsus2 A Asus4


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