missing person

Capo 5 - Key: F
 |C    |C  |C  |C  (x3)
 C toggle between x32010 and x032000
 Verse 1:
      C
 I am lipsticked like a tart
 In the cherry red of Côtes-du-Rhône
   F              C          G       F
 Prodding at the little fire of my phone
      C
 The lights behind the bar
 Twinkle like they’ve always known
 F               C         
 Only desperate little men ever
 G       F
 Drink alone

 Chorus:
                    Am
 But as long as I’m here
           F                     C   Em7
 I’ve disappeared and it’s vanishing
       C        Em7    C    G    F    C
 I’m a missing person doing my thing
 Verse 2:
    C
 As midnight strikes
 I slip into this queen of dives
     F         C           G      F
 And quietly oblivion like sleep arrives
       C
 But I couldn’t live without
 This sewer of a place to be
   F           C   
 Alone with my one obsession — 
 G        F
 Me, me, me
      F               C
 Yeh, I can hear you remonstrate
      G           F
 You fool, that’s three
 Chorus:
                 Am
 What i’m doing here
                 F
 ain’t drinking beer
           C    Em7
 It’s vanishing
        C       Em7    C    G    F
 I’m a missing person doing my thing
        C        Em7    C    G    F
 Just a missing person doing my thing
 Middle 8:
              Em7                     F
 Missing the time I threw your crutch away
     Em7               F
 And ruined a perfect day
                                   G
 Now it’s all ruins from here to daybreak
 Interlude:
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 Verse:
      C
 So I hang on to my chair
 In this fish tank of sinking stars
 F               C           G     F
 Pickling their memories in Mason jars
        C      
 And I head out for a smoke
                            G       C
 Leave your ghost there to hold my place
     F                C              G   
 And line up with the other cheaters in disgrace
       F         C
 Like runners in exile
          G      F
 From the human race
 Chorus:
                    Am
 But as long as I’m here
                   F
 This last brutal year 
          C   Em7
 Is vanishing
        C       Em7    C    G    F
 I’m a missing person doing my thing
         C       Em7    C    G    F
 Just a missing person doing my thing
         C       Em7    C    G    F   G   C 
 Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm

Transcribed by Americo Jimenez June 2021