Chords for Jeffrey Lewis - Everyone's Honest

_ _ _ _ _ A [G] couple of months ago I [D] was out drinking with an old [Am] friend of mine
_ _ [C] _
[Em] And what did he say to [D] me?
_ [Am] _ _ _
[C] He [G] said he'd like to curse [D] his ex [Am]-girlfriend just one time
[C] _ And that [G] everyone's honest, [D] _
[Am] eventually
_ _ [C] _ [G] A bunch of years ago [Dm] I got [Am] taken
_ _ [C] _ [G] By someone who said [D] that she'd get me stuff for [Am] free
_ _ [C] _
[G] Lots of talk, [D] sweet [Am] molasses, backstage passes
[C] But [Em] everyone's honest, [Dm] _ [Am] eventually
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] Ooh, _ [D] _ [Am] summer's gone again
[C] _
[G] Ooh, watch [Dm] the leaves in [Am] Tompkins Square
_ [C] _
[G] Ooh, [D] just cause nothing [Am] equals nothing
[F] _
Doesn't mean everything is [G] fair
_ _ _ [C]
I knew [G] a guy who was trying hard [Am] to never lie _
[C] _ He [G] knew the Bible A to [D] Z
_ [Am] _
_ _ _ [C] He prayed [G] before bed at night [D] and thought that he [Am] was living right
_ [C] _ But everyone's honest, [D] _ [Am] eventually
_ _ _ [C]
A [G] friend of mine in Brooklyn [D] was [Am] doing heroin _ _
[C] _ _ [G] And then he told me that he'd [D] gone clean
[Am] _
_ _ _ [C] It's [Em] all the same to me, [D]
what you [Am] do with your body
_ _ [C] _ [G] Everyone's [D] honest, [Am] eventually _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] Ooh, _ [D] _
[Am] fall is here again
[C] _ [G] Ooh, [D] watch the leaves in [Am] Tompkins Square
[C] _ [G] Ooh, _ [D]
better [F] put your mittens on
_ I hear it's getting cold [G] out there
_ _ _ [C] I try [G] to live my life [D] just like I'd always [Am] pictured it
_ [C] _ Become my own self [D]-fulfilling prophecy
[Am] Set _ _ [Em]
my sights low [D] so I don't feel like [Am] I have far to go
[C] _
[G] But everyone's honest, [D] _ [Am] eventually
I [C] _ had [G] a girl [D] who screwed around with [Am] someone else
_ [C] _ [Em] She let me [D] know almost immediately
[Am] But _ [C] _ [G] as soon as I found [D] out
I treated her [Am] like a broken toy and threw her out
That's [G] what she got for being [D] honest
[Am] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] Ooh, _ [D] _ [Am] winter's here again
[C] _ [G] Ooh, [D] no more leaves in [Am] Tompkins Square
[C] _ _ [G]
Ooh, [D] old men walking circles
[F] _ They can't find [G] me anywhere
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_ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ [G] Sometimes when I meet new [D] people I try too [Am] hard to be friendly _ _ _
[G] Sometimes I try too hard [D] to be cool
[Am] They _ _
_ [C] _ [G] say it's horrible [D] to be [Am] living a lie
_ _ [C] But [G] I've also heard it [D] said that [Am] nothing is true
_ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [C] _ [Em] Ooh, _ [D] _ [Am] winter never [C] came
_ [G] Ooh, ain't no more [D] old men in Tompkins Square
[C] _ _ [G] Ooh, they [D] say it's horrible to live a [F] lie
But then they say that [G] nothing is true
What [F] _ can you do if [G] nothing is true? _
_ [F] _ _ Just [G] between me and you _
_ [F] _ You're better off not [G] thinking it through
Not [C] thinking it through
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