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Avenue A Shanghai Hollywood by Jeffrey Lewis


    Avenue A Shanghai Hollywood



Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:F#m
Capo:no capo

[Intro]
F#m D F#m E
F#m A E D
 
F#m Bm D F#m
F#m Bm D F#m
 
 
[Verse]
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Once upon a time there was a princess man
   D                             F#m
He had the special powers of the checkout scan
         F#m                            Bm
He could price out any product from the UPCs
       D                               F#m
But he couldn't see the forest for the symmetries
 
  F#m                    Bm
A perfect paranoia now engulfs my pets
         D                           F#m
That I'm using them as simple social safety nets
  F#m                         Bm
I wish this loneliness upon myself, I'm told
           D                              F#m
Cause both puppy chow and vengeance are a dish served cold
 
 
[Chorus]
F#m                                 D
Meeting with the neighbor traps you in a chat
    F#m                            E
The dog is kind of bored until she lays down flat
  F#m                             A        E
I just walk out and wander like a floating bag
      D
And a city dog can always get a hearty wag
 
 
[Verse]
   F#m                                Bm
So face it, you can't win, who has to try this hard?
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I guess the ace that's in my sleeve is just a pity card
      F#m                           Bm
But I know I rod e a camel from this camera shot
      D                                F#m
And I must've had some sexy times that I forgot
 
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I wait to fall in love, I wait to see Brazil
  D                                F#m
I wait to see if plants survive my windowsill
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I wait to see the Northern lights I always missed
     D                                F#m
Like chicken breast, it's piled in my bucket list
 
 
[Chorus]
         F#m                             D
But with laughter and with pain that's a broken heart
     F#m                     E
When happy ever after is the way it starts
    F#m                                 A      E
But if there's potholes in the rock and roll I tell
   D
At least it's still a pothole on the road to hell
 
 
[Verse]
F#m                 Bm
Avenue A was once enthused I guess
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In retrospect compared to all this plywood mess
       F#m                             Bm
Like a dog sits in depression touching chin to floor
D                             F#m
No one with a job has got the dough no more
 
F#m                               Bm
Now he's packing heat and gigging in Shanghai
    D                            F#m
And no one knows he's secretly a famous guy
       F#m                          Bm
An everlasting fire burns among the cancer smoke
       D                                F#m
Like a journalist still asking "what is antifolk?"
 
 
[Bridge]
Bm                       F#m
Anyone can catalogue the reasons here
Bm                     F#m
Any rationale can be a thing I think
Bm                         F#m
Any word of welcome can be sweet and clear
       D                          C#m
With a hidden scammy virus in the hyperlink
 
 
[Verse]
    F#m                            Bm
But tell us little stories till we feel more good
D                                F#m
Tell us little stories just like Hollywood
F#m                           Bm
Tell us little stories so the hours pass
      D                              F#m
As we row to reach the island of the middle class




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