Mountain Goats — Source Decay Chords

@Mountain Goats
"Source Decay" — written by john darnielle
tabbed by Russ Sweetser
ruxxell@comcast.net
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Once a week I make the drive
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two hours east to check the Austin post office box.
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I take the detour through our old neighborhood,
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see all the Chevy Impalas in their front yards up on blocks,
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and I park in an alley and I read through the postcards
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that you continue to send:
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where as indirectly as you can you ask what I remember.
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I like these torture devices from my old best friend.
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Well I'll tell you what I know
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like I swore I always would ——
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I don't think it's gonna do you any good:
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I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok down toward the water.

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I always get a late start,
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when the sun's going down
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and the traffic's thinning out
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and the glare is hard to take. I wish the
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West Texas highway was a M