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Conor Oberst - Next of Kin Chords

[intro]
A  C#m  D  E

[verse]
A                       C#m
 I saw a crash on the interstate
D                              E
 It left a feeling I could not shake
A                    C#m
 Just a name in a database who
D            E
 must be notified
D                         E
 It's not a phone call I wanna make
C#m                    F#m
 a stranger answers, I hesitate
C#m                     F#m
 Got some bad news that couldn't wait
D                 E
 Are you sitting down?

[verse]
A                            C#m
 Her bathrobe hangs on the bedroom door
D                          E
 Though she's been dead for a year or more
A                     C#m
 He buried her by the sycamore
      D                  E
So that he could keep her close
D                         E
 It broke his heart and it made him old
C#m                    F#m
 Tries to rebuild but it just erodes
C#m                        F#m
 Some people say that's the way it goes
    D                      E
But he don't feel that way

[harmonica]
A  C#m  D  E

[verse]
A                       C#m
 Get too drunk and you can't perform
D                         E
 Something dies when a star is born
A                       C#m
 I spread my anger like Agent Orange
     D         E
I was indiscriminate
D                       E
 Yeah, I met Lou Reed and Patty Smith
C#m                     F#m
 It didn't make me feel different
C#m                     F#m
 I guess I lost all my innocence
D             E
 Way too long ago

[solo]
A  C#m  D  E

[verse]
A                         C#m
 She called my bluff and she won the fight
D                         E
 I ran outside in the hot twilight
A                        C#m
 I had a lighter that didn't light
        D                E
Well I know I shouldn't smoke
D                       E
 I was going, I was free to leave
C#m                     F#m
 Walking fast down the Bowery
C#m                     F#m
 Tears in my eyes so I couldn't see
      D                   E
But I made my way back home

[outro]
A  C#m  D  E
A  C#m  D  E
C#m  D
C#m  D  E
C#m  F#m  Dm  A

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