Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Picaresque
Song: On The Bus Mall
Main contributor: Andy Bouwman (marpocky@hotmail.com)
(Intro:)
Cmaj7 G
Cmaj7 G
Cmaj7 G
Cmaj7 G
C
In matching blue raincoats, our shoes were our showboats
G
we kicked around
C
From stairway to station, we made a sensation
G
with the gadabout crowd
C
And oh what a bargain, we're two easy targets
G
For the old men at the off-tracks
C
Who've paid in palaver and crumpled old dollars
G
Which we squirreled away
Em Am
In our rat-trap hotel by the freeway
C G
And we slept in Sundays
C
Your parents were anxious, your cool was contagious
G
At the old school
C
You left without leaving a note for your grieving
G
Sweet mother while your brother was so cruel
C
And here in the alleys your spirits were rallied
G
As you learned quick to make a fast buck
C
In bathrooms and ballrooms, on dumpsters and heirlooms
G
We bit our tongues
Em Am
Sucked our lips into our lungs 'til we were falling
C
Such was our calling
Em D Am C
And here in our hollow we fused like a family
Em D C
But I will not mourn for you
Em D Am C
So take up your makeup and pocket your pills away
Am Cm
We're kings among runaways
G
On the bus mall
Cm G
We're down on the bus mall
C
Among all the urchins and old chinese merchants
G
Of the old town
C
We reigned at the pool hall with one iron cue ball
G
And we never let the bastards get us down
C
And we laughed off the quick tricks, the old men with limp dicks
G
On the colonnades of the waterfront park
C
As four in the morning came on cold and boring
G
We huddled close
Em Am
In the bus stop enclosure enfolding
C
Our hands tightly holding
Em D Am C
But here in our hollow we fused like a family
Em D C
But I will not mourn for you
Em D Am C
So take up your makeup and pocket your pills away
Am Cm
We're kings among runaways
G
On the bus mall
Cm G
We're down on the bus mall
Cm G
We're down on the bus mall
Cm G
Down on the bus mall
D C G C G
Oh
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