Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief Chords

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_ _ History repeats, they all [G] concede, the clip replies, the same [D] defeats.
Keep your finger on the button, issues with [F] crocodile tears and [D] butthole ditches.
I'm just an artist, sleeping [G] away, world of a nervous dick.
[D] In a very fashionable [F] _
_ harbour, [D] I hang around until we're [G] tortured.
You'll never be alone, the boat [D] arches fast, but with a bottle [Dm] there's nothing so novel.
[D] So in this almost [G]
empty gin [D] palace, the two-way looking [Dm] glass, you see your Alice.
[D] _ You know she has no sense [G] for all your [D] jealousy.
In a sense [F] she still smiles, very sweet, [D] charged with insults and flattery. _
[G] Her body moves [D] with malice, do you have to be [F] so cruel to be careless?
[D] And now you find [G] you've finished this idea to kick [D] your dreams.
You say you have no [F] sequels, then leave [G] this prequel. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] My hands were clammy and [G] con, she's been suited to blue [D] stone.
But I know there's [F] not a hope in [D] Hades.
All the laddies [G] cat-call and buff-whistle.
[D] So-called gentlemen and [F] ladies, dark-white clothes and [D] whistle.
I'm out of feeling, [G]
I'm gonna get a lot of grief.
[F#] Once it seemed [F] so appealing, now I have me [D] unbelief.
I'm out of feeling, [G]
I'm gonna get a lot of grief.
[D] Once it seemed so appealing, [Dm]
now I have me unbelief.
[D] _ I'm out of feeling, [G]
I'm gonna get a lot of grief.
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