Belle and Sebastian – The Model (Guitar)

C
I will confess to you

              G                       F
because you made me think about the times

                      C                      Am
you turn the picture on to me and I'll turn over

                       D                 G
the vision was a masterpiece of comic timing

         F                 C
but you wouldn't laugh at all

        Csus4         Csus4/B          Am
and I wonder what the boy was thinking

                    D                            G
the picture was an old collage of something classical

           F             C
the model with a tragic air

        Csus4/D             C/E           F
because without a doubt he'd given up the fight

              G               C
the ghost of somebody at his side

          C
I will confess to you

            G                       F
Because I didn't think about the message

                      C                  Am
As I walked down the alleyway, it was a Sunday

                D                        G
All my friends deserted me because you painted me

         F             C
As the fraud I really was

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And if you think you see with just your eyes you're mad

                D                      G
Lisa learned a lot from putting on a blindfold

           F                C
When she knew she had been bad

          Csus4/D         C/E         F
She met another blind kid at a fancy dress

             G             C
It was the best sex that she ever had

               C
I'll send a dress to you

              G                   F
Because it's needing badly taken in

              C                          Am
I was so embarrassed that I missed your party

                D                G
It was me that paid for it eventually

             F               C
Because you know how much I wanted

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To meet your friend the star of stage and local press

                      D                      G
The dream of all the bowlie kids that hang around here

          F                C
I'm no different from the rest

           Csus4               C/E
I'm not too proud to say that I'm okay

          F                     G                     C
With the girl next door who's famous for showing her chest

               C
You're not impressed by me

             G                   F
But it's a funny way for you to tell me

                 C
A whisper in a choir stall

              Am              D           G
The man was talking about you simultaneously

                    F              C
Frankly, I let my heavy eyelids flutter

          Csus4            Csus4/B        Am
Because I have been sleeping badly lately

                    D                    G
I know you were historical from all the books I've read

    F                     C
I thought you could be bluffing

              Csus4/D     C/E
And with this chance I've missed, I feel remiss

      F                 G                  C
It's days and months before I'll see you again