Beautiful

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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:17:30 +0100
From: Fred Felix 

 
Subject: b/belle_and_sebastian/beautiful.crd

BEAUTIFUL
By Belle & Sebastian

>From the EP '3... 6... 9... Seconds of Light'
Transcribed by M. R. Waggner
Submitted by Thelonius

Intro

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She lay in bed all night watching the colors change


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She lay in bed all night watching the morning change


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She lay in bed all night watching the morning change into green and gold


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The doctor told her years ago that she was ill


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The doctor told her years ago to take a pill


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The doctor told her years ago that she'd go blind if she wasn't careful



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They let Lisa go blind


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The world was at her feet and she was looking down


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They let Lisa go blind


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But everyone she knew thought she was beautiful

      
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Only slightly mental


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Beautiful

     
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Only tempermental


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Beautiful


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She thought it would be fun to try photograghy


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She thought it would be fun to try pornography


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She thought it would be fun to try most anything

        
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She was tired of sleeping


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They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind


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They let Lisa go blind


She's looking like a queen

           
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But if you knew what's going on in her life

             
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There'd be a thousand barren mothers there to talk to her

           
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If you knew what's going on in her life

              
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There'd be two hundred troubled teenagers to sit with her

    
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And talk to her

       
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If you knew what's going on in her life

                      
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What's going on in her life

                
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There would be a documentary on Radio 4

(Trumpet solo spot...)


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She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes

    
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She thought is was the answer to the fashion blues

    
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She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes

         
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But she walked with a limp


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They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind...


 C#m7  
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 Ab repeats to the end

(for the little tidbit at the very end, just repeat the 1st chorus)

Belle & Sebastian fans would be well advised to browse Paul
Mitchell's appealing site 'Sinister' at
www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~mitchell/sinister/