WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Stephen Malkmus - Gardenia Chords | Ver. 1
E5
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I kinda like the way you dot your "J"s
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With giant circles of naïveté
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The kind of circles include everything
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Don't mean to damn you with the faintest praise
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It's just a symptom of the blithe age
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Walter Lippmann, he would be amazed.
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So you've got some curb appeal
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But can you cook a three course meal?
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Or are you just a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again? Hey!
Interlude B riff:
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You are a gardenia, pressed
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in the campaign journal in the
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rucksack of an Afrikaner
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candidate for mild reform.
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It's like we're at a Ponzi scam-inar
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There's no escaping without a door prize
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They're operating at significant loss.
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And now the way that you watch your weight,
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Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon would,
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Richard Avedon would surely approve.
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So much for your curb appeal.
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So much for the three course meals.
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'Cause I am not a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again. Hey!
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The torture of the Van Wyk
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Expressway at 5 p.m. on
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Friday gives you some idea of
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how rejection makes me feel.
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Well you are a gardenia,
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You are a gardenia.
