Belle and Sebastian – Stay Loose (Ukulele)

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Cm                   Bb
I was choking on a cornflake

          Gm                 Ab
You said “Have some toast instead”

Cm                     Bb
I was sleeping maybe three hours

          Gm                 Ab
You said “You should get to bed”

Cm                     Bb 
I was waiting at the church door\

        Gm            Ab
For the minister to show

Cm                    Bb 
I was looking at the new year

          Gm                Ab Gm Fm
You said “Walk before you crawl”

Cm                   Bb
I was feeling like a loser

          Gm                    Ab
You said “Hey, you’ve still got me” 

Cm                    Bb
I was feeling pretty lonely 

              Gm             Ab
You said “You wanted to be free”

Cm                   Bb
I was looking for a good time

           Gm                 Ab
You said “Let the good times start”

Cm                      Bb
With a quiver of your eyelid

             Gm            Ab
You took on someone else’s part

               Eb
But what about me

Ab              Eb
I don’t really see

Ab              Eb
How things will improve

            Ab
If all you want is to stay

Cm                  Bb
Maybe I’m a little greedy

          Gm                 Ab
You said “Think before you speak”

Cm                     Bb
Sometimes I’m a little seedy

           Gm           Ab
You said “Everyone is weak”

Cm                    Bb
Now I feel a little better

          Gm              Ab
Is there something I can do?

Cm                     Bb
But I never heard the answer

   Gm          Ab
I never had a clue

               Eb
But what about me

Ab              Eb
I don’t really see

Ab               Eb
How things will improve

             Ab
If all you want is to stay

     Fm
The lights are out

        Gm
In the house tonight

        Ab
And I creep around

         Eb               Bb
And I’m creeping to your head

          Ab              Cm
All you wanted to stay loose.

Cm                     Bb
There’s a little echo calling

        Gm             Ab
Like a miner trapped inside

Cm                     Bb
If I tell her of this moment

           Gm             Ab
She will in me doubts confide

Cm                       Bb
And she’s on me like a blanket

        Gm                Ab
Like a stalk of wilting grass

Cm                        Bb
I’m not sure about her motives

         Gm              Ab Gm Fm
I’m not sure about her past

Cm                      Bb
But my faith is like a bullet

      Gm             Ab
My belief is like a bolt

Cm                       Bb
The only thing that lets me sleep at night

            Gm            Ab
A little carriage of the soul

Cm                      Bb
If it starts a little bleaker

          Gm              Ab
Then the year may yet be gold

Cm                     Bb
Happiness is not for keeping

    Gm               Ab
Happiness is not my goal

               Eb
So what about me

Ab               Eb
I don’t really see

Ab                Eb
How things will improve

           Ab                Eb
If all you want is to stay loose

Ab               Eb
But what about them

Ab               Eb
You play mother hen

      Ab                   Eb
To a gaggle of gangling youth

            Ab
If all you want is to stay

     Fm
The lights are out

        Gm
In the house tonight

       Ab
And I creep around

          Eb              Bb
And I’m creeping to your head

          Ab                   
All you wanted to stay

Cm                          Gm
I was living through the second

    Ab              Eb
My composure was a mess

       Fm             Cm
I was miles from tenderness

        Ab                Ab         Gm        Bb
It was dark outside, the day it was lying in pieces

Cm                      Gm
Everything is flat and dreary

            Ab                  Eb
I couldn’t care what’s in the news

     Fm            Cm
Television is the blues

    Ab           Ab        Gm           Bb
Television is hysterical laughter of people

       Ab              Bb
And I know it could be me

                      Cm    Bb     Ab    Gm
I’m always asking for more, more, more, more

         Ab                Eb
I keep running round in circles

         Ab            Eb
I keep looking for a doorway

              Ab
I’m going to need two lives

     Ab         Gm              Bb
To follow the paths I’ve been taking