Billy Bragg – Must I Paint You A Picture (Guitar)

C           Em        F
It's bad timing and me

           G                          C
We find a lot of things out this way

            Em
And there's you

           F                  G
A little black cloud in a dress

C          Em
The temptation

                Am           F
To take the precious things we have a part

     C             G    C
To see how they work

            Em                          Am          F  
Must be resisted for they never fit together again

G                       Am               F
If this is rain let it fall on me and drown me

G                     Am      F    G
If these are tears let them fall

                     C       Em   Am
Must I paint you a picture

                    C       Em   Am
About the way that I feel

                              F          Am   G
You know that my love for you is strong girl

                              F      Am   G
You know that my love for you is real

C            Em               F
It took a short walk and a talk

                G                 C
To change the rules of engagement

               Em                     F       G
While you searched frantically for reverse

C           Em
And then claiming

        Am           F           C         G
That virtue never tested is no virtue at all

C      Em                Am
And so I lost my ignorance

F G                                  Am          F    
   And now the bells across the river chime out your name

G                   Am  F  G
I look across to them again     

                     C       Em   Am
Must I paint you a picture

                    C       Em   Am
About the way that I feel

                              F          Am   G
You know that my love for you is strong girl

                              F      Am   G
You know that my love for you is real

Em                            C
All your friends sais come down

               C7
It will never fly

                F
And on that perfect day

             Em       G
We threw it all away

 Em                   Am
Crisis after crisis, with such intensity

F                                   Em       G
This would never happen if we lived by the sea

C        Em                       F
Most important decisions in life

               G                   C
Are made between two people in bed

          G                  F   G
I found that at my own expense

C            Em
And when I see you

           Am             F             C         G      C
You juts turn around and walk away like we never met

   G                  Am      F
Oh we used to be so brave

G                             Am            F          G
I dreamt the wolrd stopped turning as we climbed the hill

                       Am                  F          G
I dreamt impossible dreams that we were lovers still  (chorus)

                     C       Em   Am
Must I paint you a picture

                    C       Em   Am
About the way that I feel

                              F          Am   G
You know that my love for you is strong girl

                              F      Am   G
You know that my love for you is real