Misc Musicals – War Paint - Forever Beautiful (Guitar)

C     G                             C
These portraits ... they trap me in amber.

        C
My Dali dear,

              F
He made me beautiful

D
Forever Beautiful

Db           E
My eyes like gems,

C                    D
Notice, please, each tiny lash

Ab                   C
Would you believe he painted with his own mustache?

C
Raoul Dufy,

            Ebm
A brilliant colorist

          B      D
He made me beautiful

Db           C
A few deft strokes

Ab                                          G     C
In my small way I do know something of this too

C
Made women glorious, Made women glamorous

                                           F
Used all my art to halt the march of time

  D                Gb
I slowed it down a bit,

            F
There is no stopping it,

    Gb                              F
But in a painting it is always your prime

B        F
Right?

          C
Tamara de Lempicka

            Ebm
You see her love for me,

D
But it's sub-textual

Db          C
My lifelong fight

Ab                                       C
But now I eat 'cause Giacometti keeps me slim

C
Seven guest rooms. When was the last time she even had a visitor?

B
Wouldn't you be?

Ab
Good, go then, you money men

  Ebm             Bbm
I read your beady eyes:

Ebm                Ab
'Vain old lady all   alone

   Db            C       Bbm
In bed until she dies

Bbm
I admit,

                              C      Ab
I am a little bit afraid to me-et death,

              D               Bbm
But with my brilliant eye for art,

     G    D
When I depart,

       B
I'll cheat death

Db
With my Picasso

           Gb
I posed no clothes with him,

               Ebm
Thank God, who knows with him?

Bbm                           Db           Ebm
He says 'Your ears are like elephant in size

           G              Db                    Ab      Db
I say from you, well, who can tell from ears or eyes?

Db
When I was girl of eight,

        G
My papa sneered at me

    Ab              Db            C
A plainer face he'd never seen before

          G
I said to hell with fate,

              Db
I'll mold my destiny,

Ab                                         Db
Packed my satchel and walked right out the door

        Db
From discontented life

Ab        Db
Without a cent I was

                                  C
Became a name the world could not ignore

      C
I reinvent my life

         B
As every artist does

      Bbm
I had nothing, I knew nothing

       G                      Gb
I only know there must be something more

Ab   E
So much more

Db
Look at them all

                 E
Their light will never dim

Db                       Gb
If death should come for me,

F
They bar the door on him

                 Db
Though flesh may fade,

Bbm                  Db
Canvas lives immortally,

                                              C
And there I'll hang from now through all eternity

            D
Who gives a damn?

             Ab     G
These are my pro-ge-ny

B
Who says I'm old?

D            G
I look at my life so far

E
And I am beautiful, And I feel beautiful

C       D
Forever beautiful

B                         Ab  C
When you feel beautiful,

D
You are