C Em G Em

[Verse]
  F                             G
I thought I saw my god, through frays of total blood,
   F                            G
at some Hampton Beach club. And half-convinced he had
    F
the things I thought he did...

     G
Hey, Ritchie, it's your dad.
             F                                G
I've gone so far away now, kid. From coast to coast and far beyond.
    F                            G
The waves rose up like gasps out on the astral sea,
F                                                    G
starships shifting in the crud... Don't believe that stuff on your TV.
                               C
No, I've got to leave. I can't come back.

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[Chorus]
F         G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F         G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F         G
Lido Pier suicide car.
                C               Em           F
It's a straight shot drive to a life full of stars.

[Verse]
            F                                  G
At first it seemed a little speck, and then it seemed a little mist.
            F                                       G
We took our drinks out to the deck. We watched that silver ladder twist.
                 F                               G
We flew over the hills, the harbor bar. Over the wakeward-flashing spray.
              F                                             G
We watched it shrink, that Jag, that Jaguar. We watched our old friends fall away.

[Chorus]
                      F    G
My heart, oh, feel it pounding
                    F      G
to watch our little town receding.
                           F         G             C
They're not knowing why or how we're leaving, only believing

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     F         G
in a Lido Pier suicide car.
F         G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F         G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F         G
Lido Pier suicide, suicide.
F         G
Lido Pier suicide car.

[Bridge]
       F                C            F            C
He's a ramrod handshake stud. He's a steward of a land
     F                C             F         C
hand-washed in hero's blood. He's a lodger of demands.
         F              C                  F                    C
He's the hassler of the gassed-up graspers trying to make their grands.
        F             C                    F            C
When he catches me in freezing seas, he'll lead me into land.
             F              C            F                 C
He says he's gonna break my band. I just have to take that hand.
          G
Oh, crocodile!

[Chorus]
                     F    G
And can you hear the shouting,
                     F    G
out there beyond the boundary?
     F                                         G
Some distant voice is sounding, and what is it saying?

                  F         G
Something about a Lido Pier suicide car.
F         G
Lido Pier suicide car.
F         G               C
Lido Pier suicide suicide car.