Misc Musicals – Lempicka - Unseen (Guitar)

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[Intro] Bbsus2
Gm7add4            Bbsus2
 Do you know who I am?

    Gm7add4                 Bbsus2
The baroness, old eccentric bat

    Gm7add4
The baroness with the paintbrush

Bbsus2
 Reduced to a novelty act

    Gm7add4
And now, not even that
[Verse 1]
Bb                Bbsus2/Eb
Now the Hollywood stars

    Bb                                   Bbsus2/Eb
The closest this ridiculous place had to royalty

Bb
 Have faded away

        Bbsus2/Eb
They’ve been replaced on all the screens

Bb                 Bbsus2/Eb
 By vapid children in blue jeans
[Chorus]
        Gm Fadd4 Ebadd2 Bb F/A
How did I wind up here

Ebsus2           Fsus4
 My beauty all behind me

F        Gm7 Fadd4   Ebadd2 Bb Bbsus2/A
 How did I   wind up here

Ebsus2              Fsus4
 Forgotten worlds inside me

F  Gm F/A Ebadd2 Bb
 Unseen

F7/A Gm F/A Ebsus2
Un-  seen
[Verse 2]
Bb                     Bbsus2/Eb
Once the world knew my name

     Bb                                  Bbsus2/Eb
They fought to buy my work, the rich, the royalty

Bb
 I painted them all

  Bbsus2/Eb
I made myself the living test

Bb
 And you were no one

       Bbsus2/Eb
If not painted by

   Cm7
Lempicka

 Bb/D                            Ebsus2
How the dandies fought for my commissions

             Bb/D
Attended exhibitions

          Cm            Bb/D
Vied to buy anything my brushes ever touched

        Ebadd2                Fsus4
But the real art is how to survive
[Chorus]
F        Gm F/A    Ebsus2 Bb F/A
 How did I wind up here

Ebsus2           Fsus4
 My beauty all behind me

F        Gm7 Fsus4/A Ebsus2 Bb Fsus4/A
 How did I   wind up here

Ebsus2              Fsus4
 Forgotten worlds inside me
F Gm F/A Ebadd2 Bb [Bridge]
Bb/A Gm7
 I   tangled with a world you can’t imagine

Ebsus2
 Luxury and deprivation

Ebsus2                      Ebsus2
 Princes fought to light my cigarette

Bb/D Cm               Bb/D
     Crawling up from nothing

     Eb         Bb/D
I created for myself

Cm7                Bb/D            Ebadd2
Something that the world had never seen
I painted what a woman could be
Ebadd2
Do you know who I am?

       Cm7
An old woman who doesn’t give a damn

     Bb/D
That history has passed her by

Ebadd2
History’s a bitch

          Fsus4
But so am I
[Chorus]
        Gm F/A     Ebsus2
How did I  wind up here?

  Gm F/A Ebsus2 Bb
Unseen

F7/A Gm Fsus4/A Ebsus2
Un-  seen

  Gm F/A Ebsus2 Bb
Unseen

F7/A Gm Fsus4/A Ebsus2
Un-  seen
[Outro]
                  Bbsus2
Do you know who I am?

    Gm7add4
The strange girl with the paintbrush

Bbsus2                  Gm7add4
 Today I will marry the only man for me
I will be A Lempicka Bb