Belle and Sebastian – Slow Graffiti (Guitar)

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This is from Belle and Sebastian's 'This Is Just a Modern Rock Song' EP. Having a very limited vocal range means I usually start getting complaints from the neighbours about the 3rd or 4th lines... Anyway, to make it easier you can play this with the capo on the first fret- just play all the # chords as normal ones (C instead of C#, Am istead of A#m, etc), and play the B as A#. It means you have to do less bar chords, which if you're a beginner (or just a bad guitar player like me) you may find helpful- it's probably not the way B&S play it though...
          C#
There's a portrait

     G#
In a back room

           F#
Which I'll keep for days upon

          C#
Which I relent 

              B
And gaze for hours on

    A#m                  F#
The muscle, skin and bone

         G#
Of some imaginary friend
F# G# F#
        C#
So how about it 

        G#
Show me please 

           F#
How I will look in twenty years

           C#
And let me please 

          B
Interpret history 

       A#m        F#
In every line and scar 

               G#                  
That's painted there in front of me
F# G# F# G# F# G#
           C#
It doesn't matter

         G#
What I'm thinking

       F#
What I tell myself to do

         C#      F#
I end up calling

       C#
I stay in to

                   G#
Defrost the fridge

        F#
Now the kid has gone to bed

             C#
A feeling of dread

              B         
At least when she's around

    A#m
The trouble's there

     F#                        G#
It's worse to wake up with her falling 'round the room
F# G# F# G# F# G#
       C#
Listen Johnny

              F#
You're like a mother

       C#                     F#
To the girl you've fallen for

                 C#
And you're still falling

       C#
Listen Johnny

              G#
You're like a mother

       F#
To the girl you've fallen for

                 C#
And you're still falling

            B
And if they come tonight

       A#m
You'll roll up tight

     F#             G#
And take whatever's coming to you next (oh, oh oh oh)
F# G# to end.