Death Preferences

G Bm Em D C G Em D C G Bm Em C D C D G Bm Em D C G I was coming down at the Diamond Head DMV when the feeling awoke Em D C I remember you in laughter, death preference flappin' in a bicycle spoke G Bm Em C I remember you in laughter, sincerity our final joke D C Another screwball comedy afterlife D Em D Another enemy turned to smoke G Bm Em D C G A data-mapping assistant, a tripper au pair Em D C You spent a year in a lab-coat counting on the paid end of a dare G Bm Em C Making receipts of all the rain-checks and misfortunes that you should bear D C In case the world should ever audit you D Em G D For what is and isn’t fair G Bm Em D C G Em D C G Bm We used to talk with an accent Em D C G Just to feel like we were part of the team Em D Walking halos around Choctaw Mounds C Proud and obscene G Bm Em C Mississippi 1, Mississippi 2, ooh Mississippi streams D G C Roll past the garbage bags D Of berries blue and black C G D And canisters of aerosol cream G Bm Em D C G Now Cuban leaves and a hundo for patrolling the dock Em D C Did a year with a wrist-slap buddy just for trying the lock G Bm Em C Arthouse letters to the editor comin' back to me by the box D C But the porno sculptor's broken heart D Em Is but a product of unmagical thoughts C Bm Mondrian primary pulsing through a traphouse grid D I pull a page from the extermination calendar Cm G And leave a note for the Terminex kid D Mississippi 1, Mississippi 2 G D C Miss, you’re lucky you got away when you did G With death preferences Bm Death preferences C G The choir is misfiring in loops Singing "Death Preferences" Bm Ooh ooh ooh death preferences C D It’s Saturday night, it’s Sunday morning G D C Everybody’s smoking weed in groups G Bm Em D C G Em D C G Bm Em D C G Em D C G Bm Em D C G Now the emperor naps wrapped in Ku Klux linens Em I dressed and left so fast that D C I think my shadow must have been confused for a minute G Bm Em C To be the cock-rock band criticized by the art-house superintendent D G C To see your room for the first time D Em To see a picture of me in it C And all my excuses for staying so long Bm D Lie faced in a duffel Grab your partner by his or her hand C G And do the blood-font pharmacy shuffle D Another screwball comedy afterlife G D C Another enemy smoked in a brotherly scuffle G Bm I still remember you in laughter Em D C G When the accent comes back just how we left it Em D Oh you know they say that death prefers you, Baby C When you least expect it G Bm Em C And the choir’s admired but the maestro is oh so disrespected D G C Not a dry seat in the house to be found D Em And not a dollar off domestos G Death preferences Bm Death preferences Cm C G The maestro is too tired to pull rank Swingin' "Death Preferences" Bm Ooh ooh ooh death preferences C D It’s Saturday night, it’s Sunday morning G C Everybody’s parking at the bank D Mississippi 1, Mississippi 2 Em D C I miss you more than you think G Bm Em D C G Em D C G Bm Em C D C D D C G