Okkervil River  -  Pop Lie

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B                        A          E
    all sweetly sung and succinctly stated
A                       E
    words and music he calculated
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     to  make you sing along
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 B
     with your stereo on as you stand in shorts on your lawn

B                     A    E
     get completely incorporated
A                       E
     by some couple who consummated
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     all their love by the dawn
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       B
   a falling star wished upon that flashed in the sky and was gone

E                  F#m                  A    B
     and mouths wet      and blonde hair braided
A                         E
     by the back room the kids all waited
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     to meet the man in bright green
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      B
   who had dreamed up the dream that they wrecked their hearts upon

         A        E           B
he?s the liar who lied in his pop song
           F#m                  B
and you?re lying when you sing along
           F#m                 B
yes you?re lying when you sing along


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B                              A       E
     so here?s the car seat so cruelly weighted
A                          E
     and here?s to faces already faded
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  at the end of a day
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       B
     when they just threw away the only good thing that they owned
                E             F#m              A    B
and now they?re    pinned down      and strangula---ted
A                          E
    at the food court the float?s inflated
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    people line up to see
F#m                          B               A
      B
	  the man who dreamed up the dream that they wrecked their hearts upon

         A        E           B
he?s the liar who lied in his pop song
    A        E           B
the liar who lied in his pop song
           F#m                 B
and you?re lying when you sing along,
               F#m                 B
oh yeah you?re lying when you sing along

A                          B
     week by week it climbs up and climbs on
          E                        F#m
and we?re feeling all right but we know it?s all wrong
A                     B                   E
     I?m ashamed to admit that I cannot resist
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what I wish were the truth but it?s not
      A       E              B
and I truly believe we?re not strong
          A              E         B
and we?ll sing until our voices are gone
         A                E        B
and then sink beneath the manicured lawn

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B                         A   E
     This is respectfully dedicated
A                     E
     to the woman who concentrated
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     all of her love to find
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  B
     that she had wasted it on the liar who lied in this song