调：G major•
Intro 1
G
Am
C
D
G
Am
C
D
G
Verse 1
G
I was painting a still life this morning
Am
Of a throat loz enge sitting
on a copy of Tropic of Cancer
C
The only thing weird about
D
it is that a year ago
G
I never thought I'd paint anything again
I decided I wasn't ever gonna paint again
Am
It didn't bother me too much,
Warhol's dead
C
David Hockney's still alive,
D
G
I don't need to paint
Verse 2
G
I painted over ten thousand paintings
Am
Sad ones, funny ones,
dark ones and light ones
C
I've done haystacks and rich
D
old ladies by their pools
G
Wearing nothing but a scarf
I've painted everything
there was to paint
Am
Now it was time to sit back,
give interviews
C
Get on the internet, hang
out at club med
D
G
Take stock of what I've done
Verse 3
G
You know, the best friend
I ever had was a dog
Am
It sounds like a cliche unless it's
happened to you
C
Some days that dog was the only
D
G
reason I even got out of bed
That dog went everywhere with me and then
I heard the crack addicts
Am
Were stealin' dogs and selling
them for animal research
C
D
It sounded like an urban myth to me like the
mouse in the Coke bottle
G
But I started leavin'
her at home after that
Verse 4
G
You know, Paula was my
wife for a while
Am
She ran off to Paris with the
great grandson of Van Gogh
C
D
A cartoonist who did fashion
G
graphics for Le Monde
When Paula left she took my dog,
Am
I never saw her again
Except in the court during the
custody battle
C
She won and got to keep the dog
D
And I didn't speak to any
G
one for months
Verse 5
G
You know sometimes it feels
Bm
Like there's so much
that you need
C
Bm
Sometimes the world is
G
upside down
Sometimes it seems like the
Bm
only thing you need
C
Bm
Is holdin' someone's hand as
Bb
you walk through town
C
G
Verse 6
G
I started hanging around with Dino
He used to run a poker
Am
game back east
Now he has a little coffee shop,
C
sells cappuccino to his old pals
D
G
Tommy, Chicago and Jimmy
the Wig and Ugly Rose
Verse 7
G
You know the best person I ever knew
Was a Mormon woman named Estelle
Am
She still calls me drunk every few months
C
And asks me stuff I
D
don't want to talk about
G
You can't talk to her long unless
you're drunk yourself
Then we go all night
Am
C
D
Verse 8
G
Yeah she goes, "Why baby,
why baby, why baby, why
Am
Have you turned your back on love?
C
You had so many chances
D
G
Why have you let 'em all go by?"
Verse 9
G
Well, one morning I was sitting out in
front of Dino's place
Am
With Jake the Shears,
a guy from Philly who gives free mohawks
C
There were a couple of young painters,
D
I was hopin' to come by
G
So I could give 'em some advice
Verse 10
G
Yeah, I was sittin' there
updating my list of enemies
Am
When this girl walks in and
the universe kind of stops
C
Turned out she drank
D
the same tea as me
G
Don't take more than that to start
a conversation sometimes
She believed collage was the greatest
of all the arts
Am
And was busy pasting pictures of horses,
C
next to ads for laundry soap
D
Next to Mohammed Ali,
G
she had a turquoise in her ear
And said Rachmaninoff was
always in her head
Verse 11
Am
But later that day I was trying to describe her
to Jimmy the Wig
C
D
I couldn't find any words and I realized
G
I'd started to sketch her chin
Somehow it didn't look right,
Am
I scratched it out and tried it again
C
D
I filled an entire pad, I threw it away,
G
I never even came close
Verse 12
G
For a six days I sat at Dino's place
Am
The rain wouldn't quit and
no one came in
C
Finally on the seventh day it
D
G
cleared and in she walked
I asked her to sit with me and
I bought her a cup of tea
Am
And I asked her to model for
me sometime
C
That afternoon I was at a canvas
D
She was wearing a yellow dress
G
I swore if she let me, I'd get it right
Verse 13
G
I've painted over ten
thousand paintings
Am
Sad ones, funny ones,
dark ones, and light ones
C
But sitting there,
D
G
it was like I couldn't even write my own name
I apologized and said, "It's
been a few months
If you have patience,
Am
I'll get the hang of it again"
C
In the next few weeks,
D
G
I painted her hundreds of times
If I get the nose right, the chin's too long
Am
If I get 'em both right, the face is too thin
C
D
But I keep after it and one day I, I'll get
G
it all right
Interlude 1
G
Am
C
D
G
Am
C
D
G
Verse 14
G
I painted a still life this morning,
Am
of a throat lozenge
Sitting on a copy of Tropic of Cancer
C
D
The only thing was funny is that
G
I never thought I'd paint anything again
I think I might go visit Estelle
Those Utah mountain
Am
s are good for the soul
C
I'll bring my brushes and some Jack Daniels
D
G
And we can make up for lost time
Verse 15
G
And she said, "Why baby,
why baby, why baby why?
Am
Baby why have you turned
your back on love
C
You had so many chances
D
Why have you let 'em all
G
go by?"
Verse 16
G
And she says, "Why baby,
why baby, why baby why?
Am
Baby why have you turned
your back on love
C
You had so many chances
D
G
Why have you let 'em all go by?"
Verse 17
G
Bm
Sometimes it seems like there's so
much that you need
C
D
Sometimes the world is
G
upside down
Sometimes it seems like the
Bm
only thing you need
C
Bm
Bb
Is holdin' someone's hand as you walk through town
Outro 1
C
G
Am
C
D
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Am
C
D
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C
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