[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.....
[Verse 1] [Am] Is it getting better [D] [F] Or do you feel the s [G] ame [Am] Will it make it eas [D] ier on you now [F] you got someone to [G] blame
[Chorus] You say, [C] one love, [Am] one life [F] When it's one need [C] , in the night [C] One love [Am] , we get to share it, [F] It leaves you baby if you [C] don't care for it
[Instrumental - Drums in] [Am][D][F][G]
[Verse 2] [Am] Did I disa [D] point you? [F] Or leave a bad taste in your [G] mouth? [Am] You act like you never [D] had love [F] And you want me to go with [G] out
[Chorus] Well it's [C] too late, [Am] tonight [F] To drag the past out in [C] -to the light [C] We're one, but we're [Am] not the same We get to [F] carry each other, car [C] ry each other O [Am] ne ... [D] ..... [F] ..... [G] .....
[Verse 3] [Am] Have you come here for for [D]giveness [F] Have you come to raise [G] the dead [Am] Have you come here to play [D] Jesus [F] To the lepers in your [G] head
[Chorus] [C] Did I ask too much [Am] More than a lot [F] You gave me nothing Now it's [C] all I got [C] We're one, but we're [Am] not the same Well we, [F] hurt each other, then we [C] do it again
[Bridge] You say, [C] love is a temple, [Am] love's a higher law [C] Love is a temple, [Am] love's a higher law You [C] ask me to enter, but [G] then you make me crawl And [G] I can't be holding o [F] To what you got [F] , when all you got is [C] hurt
[Chorus] One [C] love, [Am] One blood [F] One life, you got to [C] do what you should [C] One life [Am] , with each other [F] Sisters, [C] brothers [C] One life, but we're [Am] not the same We get to [F] carry each other, car [C] ry each other [C] One, [Am] O [F] ne [C]
[Outro] [C][Am][F][C] x4
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