Junk Bond Trader chords by Elliott Smith

Cm   Ab   Eb   Fsus4 F Ab Bb x2

  Cm                            Ab
The imitation picks you up like a habit
Eb                       Fsus4 F Ab Bb
Writing in the glow of the tv static
Cm                          Ab
Taking out the trash to the man
Eb                             Fsus4 F Ab Bb
Give the people something they understand
  Cm                   Ab
A stick-man flashing a fine-line smile
Eb               Fsus4     F      Ab       Bb
Junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a style
Cm            Ab
Rich man in a poor man's clothes
    Eb         Fsus4  F          Ab    Bb
The permanent installment of the daily dose
                Cm                   Ab         Eb
And you tell me off when you tell it like it is
                Fsus4 F         Ab       Bb
Your world's no wider than your hated of his
Cm              Ab
Checking into a small reality
Eb                   Fsus4 F  Ab  Bb
Boring as a drug you take too regularly
    Cm                   Ab
The athlete's laugh; the broken crutch
    Eb                   Fsus4  F      Ab        Bb
The first true love that folded at the slightest touch
Cm                   Ab
Brought down like an old hotel
       Eb                             Fsus4  F    Ab   Bb
People digging through the rubble for things they can resell

C                Bb
"happy holidays," said sick saviour
C                  Eb/Ab  Bb/D Bb
The leaving lover I still favour
C
I won't take your medicine
Bb
I don't need a remedy
C                   Eb/Ab    Bb/D Bb
To be everything I'm supposed to be
C
I don't want nobody else
Bb
I can do it by myself
      C           Eb Bb/D Bb
We're meant to be together
C     Bb          Cm
ah,   ahh,     ahhh

Cm  Cm/Eb  Bb/D  Bb

Abmaj7     Bb/D  Bb Bdim

Cm   Ab   Eb   Fsus4 F Ab Bb x2

    Cm                Ab
Now I'm a policeman directing traffic
        Eb                 Fsus4 F    Ab  Bb
Keeping everything moving, everything static
Cm                        Ab
I'm the hitchhiker you'll recognize passing
Eb                  Fsus4 F Ab Bb
On your way to some everlasting...

Cm     Ab                Eb  Fsus4 F Ab Bb
Better sell it while you can
Cm     Ab                Eb  Fsus4 F Ab Bb
Better sell it while you can
Cm     Ab                Eb  Fsus4 F Ab Bb
Better sell it while you can
Cm     Ab                Eb  Fsus4 F Ab Bb Ab Bb C