Belle and Sebastian - We Were Beautiful: chords

                       Em
I was blank as I could be
Hearing voices telling me
                       G
"Walk away from everything"
                         Em
But where was I meant to go?
Far away from those I know
                    G C Bm
To some desolate below

We were in the uber scene
Where they grind the coffee bean
Where the women are oblique
And the boys are paper thin
Ragged beards upon their chin
We were on the outside looking in

Am              Bm         Am               Em
Rise above the present day, rise above the popular
melee
Am             Bm         C               Dm
I see you the way you are, I see you the star

Chorus:
         F     G     Am    C        G
We were beautiful before this went down
         F     G     Am       C           G
We were beautiful before the years came, turned
it upside down
         F     G     Am   C      G
We were beautiful before we got wise
         F     G        Am       C      Bm       A
We were beautiful with sky and blanket laying low

I am hanging on the line
I'm on duty all the time
I am your Samaritan on call
I could try my best to heal
All the emptiness you feel
In the giving, I will be alive

We were wrapped around our roots
Nothing on except our boots
We were intimate around the waist
We were settling our scores
We were healing over sores
We were living out the pleasure that we lost

Chorus:
We were beautiful before this went down
We were beautiful before the years came
And turned it upside down
We were beautiful for all of time and space
I will tell it to the sun and I will tell it to

F                     G
If you listen to the night,
                         Am                    F
we can heard the madmen fight, hear the foxes making
out
F                     G
But the people all immune,
                          C
sleeping silent in their rooms, growing bodies
A#
with their sleep
                G#
Making plans inside their heads,
                 Fm           D#
making love to shallow friends
 Fm           D#
shallow friends

Chorus:
We were beautiful before this went down
We were beautiful before the years came
And turned it upside down
We were beautiful before we got wise
We were beautiful with sky and blanket fading out

We were beautiful before this went down
We were beautiful before the years came
And turned it upside down
We were beautiful for all of time and space
I will tell it to the sun and I will tell it
to your face