'cause

	  		Intro: E C F# Am E  

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Cause I lost my job 
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Two weeks before Christmas. 
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And I talked to Jesus at the sewer 
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And the Pope said it was none of his God-damned business. 

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While the rain drank champagne 
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My Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted. 
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Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got 
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Is the one I've never tasted. 

		   E		 A	G#m 
Oh! But they'll take their bonus pay 
 		B 
To Molly McDonald. 
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Neon ladies, 	beauty is that which obeys... 
	     B		E 
Is bought or borrowed. 

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Cause my heart's become a crooked hotel 	full of rumours. 
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But it's I who pays the rent 
				E	A 
For these fingered-face out-of-tuners. 
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And I make 16 solid half hour friendships 	every evening. 
	   E 
Cause your queen of hearts, who is half a stone 
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And likes to laugh alone, is always threatening you with leaving 

	    E		     A		G#m 
Oh but they play those token games 
		B 
On Willy Thompson. 
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And give a medal to replace the son 
		B 
Of Mrs. Annie Johnson 

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Cause they told me everybody's got to pay their dues 
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And I explained that I had overpaid them. 
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So overdued I went to the company store 
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And the clerk there said that they had just been invaded. 
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So I set sail in a teardrop 	and escaped beneath the doorsill. 
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Cause the smell of her perfume 		echoes in my head still. 

E A (2x) 

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Cause I see my people trying to drown the sun 
			E	A 
In weekends of whiskey sours. 
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Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book 
	  E		A 
And plant flowers? 

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