[Intro]
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[Verse]
F G
I thought I saw my god, through frays of total blood,
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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.
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Lido Pier suicide car.
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Lido Pier suicide car.
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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.
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They're not knowing why or how we're leaving, only believing
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F G
in a Lido Pier suicide car.
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Lido Pier suicide car.
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Lido Pier suicide car.
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Lido Pier suicide, suicide.
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Lido Pier suicide car.
[Bridge]
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He's a ramrod handshake stud. He's a steward of a land
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hand-washed in hero's blood. He's a lodger of demands.
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He's the hassler of the gassed-up graspers trying to make their grands.
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When he catches me in freezing seas, he'll lead me into land.
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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.
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Lido Pier suicide suicide car.