[Intro - BPM 142 - No drums] [Am][F][Dm][G] Sha la la la la la la [Am] uh huh... [F][G][G]
[Verse 1 - No drums] [Am] I was down at the New [F] Amsterdam [Dm] staring at this [G] yellow-haired girl Mr. [Am] Jones strikes up a conver [F] sation with this [G] black-haired flamenco dancer [G] [Am] She dances while his father [F] plays gui [Dm] tar. She's suddenly [G] beautiful .. We [Am] all want something [F] beaut [G] iful, [G] I wish I was beautiful .... So come
(Drums in) [Am] dance this silence [F] down through the morning [Dm] Sha la la la [G] la la la [Am] la [F] yeah [G] uh huh... [G] [Am] Cut up, Ma [F] ria! [Dm] Show me some of them Span [G] ish dances [Am] Pass me a bo [F] ttle, Mr Jones [G][G] [Am] Believe in me [F][Dm] Help me believe in an [G] ything [Am] Cause I want to [F] be someone who beli [G] eves [G]
[Chorus 1] [C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] tell each other fairy tales [C] Stare at the beautiful women [F] [G] "She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me." [C] Smiling in the bright [F] lights, [G] coming through in [G] stereo When [C] everybody [F] loves you, you [G] [G] can never be lonely
[Verse 2] [Am] I will paint my [F] picture. [Dm] Paint myself in blue [G] and red and black and gray [Am] All of the beautiful [F] colors are [G] very, very meaningful you know [Am] Gray is my favorite [F] color I [Dm] felt so sym [G] bolic yesterday [Am] If I knew Pi [F] casso I would [G] buy myself a gray [G] guitar and play
[Chorus 2] [C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] look into the future [C] Stare at the beautiful women [F] [G] "She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me." [C] Standing in the spotlight [F][G] I bought myself a gray guitar When [C] everybody [F] loves me, I [G] will never be lone....
[Bridge] [Am] ly .... I will never be [Fmaj7] lonely I will never gonna [Am] be lone [G] ly
[Verse 3] [Am] I want to be a lion. [F] Everybody wants to pass as cats [Am] We all want to be big, big stars, but we got [G] different reasons for that. [Am] Believe in me because I [F] don't believe in anything And [Am] I want to be someone to believe, to [G] believe, to believe.
[Chorus 3] [C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] stumbling through the barrio [C] Yeah we stare at the beautiful women [F] [G] She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me. [C] I want to be Bob Dylan [F] ... Mr. [G] Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky .. When [C] everybody [F] loves you, [G] son, that's just about as funky as you can be.
[C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] staring at the video [C] When I look at the tele [F] vision, I want [G] to see me staring right back at me. [C] We all want to be big [F] stars, but [G] we don't know why, and we don't know how. But when [C] everybody [F] loves me, [G] I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be. [C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] (stop drums) we're gonna be big stars.....
[Intro - BPM 116 - No drums] (Pattern for C to G bit - [C]xx[Csus4] x[C]x[G][G]xxx [G]xxxx)
[C][Csus4][C][G] x3 (snare roll) [F][G]
[Verse 1] This bed is on [C] fire with [Csus4] passion [C] ate [G] love The neighbours com [C] plain about the [Csus4] noises [C] a- [G] bove But she only [C] comes when [Csus4] she's [C] on [G] top (snare roll) [F][G]
[Verse 2] My therapist [C] said not to [Csus4] see you [C] no [G] more She said you're like a di [C] sease with [Csus4] out [C] any [G] cure She said I'm so ob [C] sessed that I'm [Csus4] becom- [C] ing a [G] bore, oh no [F] (drum roll) Ah, you think you're so [G] pretty
[Verse 3] [C] Caught your [Csus4] hand ins [C] ide the [G] till Slammed your fingers in the [C] door [C] Fought [Csus4] with kitchen [C] knives and [G] skewers [C] Dressed me [Csus4] up in [C] women's [G] clothes Messed around with gender [F] (drum roll) roles Line my eyes and call me [G] pretty
[Verse 4] Moved out of the [C] house, so you [Csus4] moved [C] next [G] door I locked you [C] out, you cut a [Csus4] hole [C] in the [G] wall I found you sleeping [C] next to me, I [Csus4] thought I [C] was [G] alone You're driving me [F] (drum roll) crazy, when are you coming [G] home
