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Vampire Weekend - How Long? Chords

[verse 1]
D                   Bm
Tough choice, don't make me laugh
   F#                   G
My life's a joke, your life's a gas
    D                 Bm
You broke my heart at midnight mass
    F#                G
Now I'm the ghost of Christmas past
    D               Bm
The only choice you gave to me
   F#             G
Is one I took reluctantly
       D              Bm
'Cause when we play democracy
    F#             G
You always take immunity

[chorus 1]
D     Bm           F#
  How long 'til we sink to
    G             D
the bottom of the sea?
    Bm        F#     G
How long, how long?
D     Bm           F#
  How long 'til we sink
         G            D
and it's only you and me?
    Bm        F#     G
How long, how long?

[post-chorus 1]
    D         Bm          F#      G
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)
    D         Bm    F#   G
How long? (La-la la-la)
    D         Bm          F#      G
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)
    D         Bm    F#   G
How long? (La-la la-la)

[verse 2]
D                   Bm
What's the point of getting clean?
       F#                 G
You'll wear the same old dirty jeans
D                   Bm
What's the point of being seen?
      F#                     G
Those eyes are cruel, those eyes are mean
D                   Bm
What's the point of human beings?
  F#               G
a Sharpie face on tangerines
D                  Bm
Why's it felt like Halloween
      F#           G
Since Christmas 2017?

[chorus 2]
D     Bm    F#  G
  How long?
D     Bm        F#     G
  How long, how long?
D     Bm           F#
  How long 'til we sink
         G            D
and it's only you and me?
    Bm        F#     G
How long, how long?

[post-chorus 2]
    D         Bm          F#      G
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)
    D         Bm    F#   G
How long? (La-la la-la)
    D         Bm          F#      G
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)
    D         Bm    F#   G
How long? (La-la la-la)

[instrumental]
D  Bm  F#  G
D  Bm  F#  G

[verse 3]
D                  Bm
Getting to the top
       F#                   G
Wasn't supposed to be this hard
    D              Bm
The house is on Mulholland Drive
    F#               G
The car's on Sunset Boulevard
    D              Bm
The registration's here with me
    F#             G
But neither of us has the key
D                Bm
We can live down in the flats
    F#                 G
The hills will fall eventually

[chorus 3]
D     Bm           F#
  How long 'til we sink
       G             D
to the bottom of the sea?
    Bm        F#     G
How long, how long?
D     Bm           F#
  How long 'til we sink
         G            D
and it's only you and me?
    Bm        F#     G
How long, how long?

[post-chorus 3]
    D         Bm          F#      G
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)
    D         Bm    F#   G
How long? (La-la la-la)
    D         Bm          F#      G
How long? (La la-la-la la-la-la)
    D         Bm    F#   G
How long? (La-la la-la)
     D    Bm  F#  G
How long?
    D     Bm  F#  G
How long?
    D     Bm  F#  G
How long?
    D     Bm  F#  G
How long?

[outro]
D  Bm  F#  G
D  Bm  F#  G

[ending]
D     Bm           F#
  How long 'til we sink
       G             D
to the bottom of the sea?
    Bm        F#
How long, how long?

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