A C#m7 A C#m7 A G#m F#m E
A She lay in bed all night watching the C#m7 colors change
A She lay in bed all night watching the C#m7 morning change
F#m She lay in bed a E ll night watching the morning change into green and gold
A The doctor told her years ago that s C#m7 he was ill
A The doctor told her years ago to tak C#m7 e a pill
A The doctor told her years ago that s G#m he'd go blind if she F# wasn't careful
C#m7 They let Lisa go b B lind
A The world was at her feet and she was G# looking down
C#m7 They let Lisa go b B lind
A But everyone she knew thought she was C#m7 beautiful
Only s E lightly mental
C#m7 Beautiful
Only E tempermental
Cm7 Beautiful
A She thought it would be fun to try C#m7 photograghy
A She thought it would be fun to try C#m7 pornography
A She thought it would be fun to try most G#m anything
She was F# tired of sleeping
C#m7 They let Lisa go b B lind, let Lisa go A blind, let Lisa go G# blind
C#m7 They let Lisa go b B lind
She's looking like a queen
But if you C#m7 knew what's going on in her A life
There'd be a F#m thousand barren mothers there to B talk to her
If you knew C#m7 what's going on in her A life
There'd be two F#m hundred troubled teenagers to B sit with her
And B talk to her
If you E knew what's going on in her D life
What's going on in her A life
There would be a C# documentary on Radio 4
(Trumpet solo spot...)
G# E G# E G# E G# B E B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#m7 B
E B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#m7 B C#
She A made herself a pair of orth C#m7 opaedic shoes
She A thought is was the answer t C#m7 o the fashion blues
She A made herself a pair of orth G#m opaedic shoes
But she w F# alked with a limp
C#m7 They let Lisa go B blind, let Lisa go A blind, let Lisa go G# blind...
C#m7 B A G# 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/
Belle and Sebastian
