AmFDmG
Sha la la la la
AmFG
la la uh huh...
[Verse 1]
AmFDmG
I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
AmFG
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer
AmFDmG
You know she dances while his father plays guitar. She's suddenly beautiful
AmFG
We all want something beautiful, man, I wish I was beautiful
AmFDm
So come dance this silence down through the morning
GAmFG
Sha la la la la la la la la yeah uh huh yeah
AmFDmG
Cut up, Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances
AmFG
And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
AmFDmG
Believe in me. Help me believe in anything
AmFG
'Cause I want to be someone who believes, yeah
[Chorus 1]
CFG
Mr. Jones and me, tell each other fairy tales
CF
and we stare at the beautiful women
GGC
"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."
FG
Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo
CFG
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely
[Verse 2]
AmFDmG
Well, I will paint my picture. Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
AmFG
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful (yeah, well you know)
AmFDmG
Gray is my favorite color I-I felt so symbolic yesterday
AmFG
If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
[Chorus 2]
CFG
Mr. Jones and me, look into the future
CF
yeah we stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."
CFG
Standing in the spotlight, I bought myself a gray guitar
CFGAm
When everybody lo-ves me, I will never be lo-one-ly
[Bridge]
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I will never be lonely
AmG
I'm never gonna be looone-ly
AmF
I want to be a lion. Everybody wants to pass as cats
AmG
We all want to be big, big stars, yeah but we got different reasons for that.
AmF
Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
AmG
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.
[Chorus 3]
CFG
Mr. Jones and me, stumbling through the barrio
CF
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me."
CF
I want to be Bob Dylan
G
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
CFG
When everybody loves you, ah son, that's just about as funky as you can be.
CFG
Mr. Jones and me, staring at the video
CFG
When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me.
CFG
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how.
CFG
But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be.
CFG
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars.....