Belle and Sebastian – Your Covers Blown (Guitar)

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[Intro]
F#m7
"So how do we know each other, and how do you have my number?
Well why don't you guide me? You be the driver." [Verse 1]
F#m7         C#m7              F#m7
Say what you want and leave your shyness home

                           C#m7            F#m7
And you should do what you want and write a little poem

             C#m7          F#m7
Leave it for her and live another day

                            C#m7           F#m7
And you should leave it for her, the girl around the way
[Interlude] F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 [Verse 2]
             C#m7             F#m7
Write down a list of things you want to do

                         C#m7           F#m7
And then you leave it in work because you want to live a little

            C#m7            F#m7
Pick up the girl in someone's borrowed Mini

            C#m7          F#m7
Take her to dinner, use her boyfriend's money
[Chorus]
A                 C#
Hey lady, put the phone down

       F#m
Cancel all operations

         D
Tell your friends to cool it

     A                        C#
Your cover's blown, I want to see you alone

       F#m
Cancel all operations

         D
Tell your friends to cool it

     A               C#
Your cover's blown
[Interlude] F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 [Verse 3]
               C#m7           F#m7
Ah, planning a break is such a tricky thing

                        C#m7             F#m7
Because you move to the country, she comes back again

                         C#m7       F#m7
And then you move to the city but she goes abroad

                   C#m7            F#m7
Is she telling you something, is she getting bored?
[Interlude] F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 [Verse 4]
                          C#m7              F#m7
I'll make a rough plan to sleep around, I'm in a rut

                       C#m7        F#m7
I need a change, I'm a lazy rat if I am honest

                      C#m7             F#m7
But my bold change of tack will fade out with the summer

                C#m7             F#m7
I've got no appetite and all the girls are bummers
[Bridge]
Em              G
My baby doesn't look at me

          A
The way I want her to look

             Bm  F#m    A
She doesn't "comprend"

Em               G
My baby's got it going on

            A                             Bm   F#m
She's got a friend hid in every street in this town

  G                         Am G F  E                  Am
I want to go out but there's nobody home I'll go on my own
[Bridge 2]
Am
Thus starts the lonely walking

Dm                              E                    Am    Amadd9
There's always too much talking I should have stayed home

Am
She starts her cool caressing

Dm
The kid, she starts undressing

E                  Am G F E
I should've stayed home

Am
The dj's picking up speed

Dm
That's something I just don't need

E                  Am    Amadd9
I should've stayed home 

Am
The gossip's bearing down on me,

Dm                           E
The kids are pairing off in front of me.

                   Am   G F E
I should've stayed home

                   Am   G F E
I should've stayed home

                Am
I think I'll go home
[Interlude] Em G D [Chorus]
Em
Listen lady, put your phone down

       C
Cancel all operations
Tell your friends to cool it.
     G                       B
Your cover's blown I need to see you alone

       Em
Cancel all operations

           C
Tell your friends to cool it

G                      B
Listen lady, leave your phone down

       Em
Cancel all operations

          C
Tell your friends to cool it

     G                       B
Your cover's blown I need to see you alone

       Em
Cancel all operations

         C
Tell your friends to cool it

G                B
Hey lady, meet my mum and dad

         Em
You're a strange aberration

       C                          G
In this land of potted plants and boxlike houses

          B
Where the girls like mouses

          Em                       C
Breathe a long sigh of resignation

                       G
You resign yourself to keep on growing

         B
Like the seeds you're sowing

         Em                        C                            G
You're a strange apparition in this land of grammar schools and gala days

           B
The ladies set in their ways

          Em                       C
You had a long conversation with a kid next door

       G
He's a little slow

            B
But in your favour, it shows

       Em
Cancel all operations

          C                          Em
Tell your friends to move out to the sticks
[Outro]
Em                     B/D#
Listen lady, leave the boy home

       C
Cancel all operations

          Am                               Em
Tell your friends there's more to you than this