The Shins – New Slang     ( Album: Oh, Inverted World (2001) )

Intro: [ Am  | C   | F    | C   || G  | C   | Am  | G   ]  (x2)

       [ C   | C/B   ]       

(Oooh)

Am               C               F        C          G              

Gold teeth and a curse for this town,  Were all in my mouth

     C             F           Am   G

Only I don’t know how they got out, dear

Am             C       F      C           G

Turn me back into the pet,  I was when we met

       C        F           Am   G

I was happier then with no mind set

                G      C          F     C            G

And if you’d a took to me like,  A gull takes to the wind

                G          F

Well, I’d have jumped from my trees

    F      C               F           C

And I’d a danced like the king of the eyesores

         F           C              G

And the rest of our lives would’ve fared well

Am                 C             F         C             G

New slang when you notice the stripes,  The dirt in your fries

           C              F          Am G

Hope it’s right when you die,  Old and bony

Am                 C                 F

Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall

   C             G              C            F           Am  G

Never should’ve called,  But my heads to the wall,  And I’m lonely

[ Chorus ]

[ Intro repeat ]

Am                C           F             C              G

God speed all the baker’s at dawn, May they all cut their thumbs

     C                F             Am   G

And bleed into their buns, ‘Till they melt away

            G           C                   F       C        G

I’m looking in on the good life,  I might be doomed never to find

            G               C             F   C    G

Without a trust or flaming fields,  Am I too dumb to refine?

              G      C

And if you’d took to me like

     F      C               F             C

Well I’d a danced like the queen of the eyesores

         F           C              G

And the rest of our lives would’ve fared well

[ F   C  F  G  ||  C  Am  F   F  ] (x2)

[ Am  C  F  C  ||  G   C  Am  G  ] (x2)…  C 

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