Imperfections Chords by Olivia Chaney

_ Crying on [B] a plane to New York, New [Gb] York
No permit to [E] work nor play
[B] Green card, did you get a green card?
[Gb] It's only a [E] short stay
Travelling [Bm] alone, fans [Abm] flames
[E] _ _
[Abm] Smokeless, smouldering
I depart [Gbm] _
without
[A] a glimpse [Dbm] of the sun
Almost [A] feeling [B] I could become [A] someone
Except for the hem of my [Abm] skirt's undone
[B] Achilles heel, a clumsy hole
[A] Somebody stop me, [Gb] burying my soul
Guilt, a [B] riddle, [Gb] driven
One part my mother with the favour, prompting
Stranger prodding to [Abm] see how things feel
[Eb] Just out in sight
_ _ _ [E] _ I'm [Abm] perfecting _ _ [E] imperfection
_ That's what [Abm] I tell myself
_ [E] _ I tell [Abm]
myself that there [Gbm] is _ _ nobody [Gb] else
_ _ Steward's a sleaze, [B] lives in Queens
[E] Aims to please, to [Gb] meet his kind of girl
[B] See the [Abm] world, travel by [Ebm] token
[Bb] Now _ [E] I [B] lie on a gay friend's sofa _
[Gb] Shakespeare's cock-hole throws a blanket over
[E] My many _ [Abm] Manhattan's tourist whims
[Gb] Meatpacking district, my Chelsea [B] morning
He [E] takes us out for hard-boiled [Gb] eggs
Salt beef, egg lovings, cock and [B] legs
The whisky [E] comes up and [Abm] the rain pours [B] down
[Gb] There's no real cure in [Eb] this riddle [Bbm] of time
[Ebm] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [G] _ I'm [Bm] _ _ _
perfection
[G] _ _ That's [Bm] what I tell myself
[G] _ _ I [Bm] tell myself _ [Am] there is nobody _ [D] else _
_ [G] _ _ I'm [Bm] _ perfection
_ [A] _ _ That's what I'll tell them when _ [G] the flights are [B] flown
[Bm] The men are all kissed [Am] when there's nowhere [D] left to year
_ [Em] Still I feel the [Db] edge of the [Bm] shelf breaking
[A] Not sure who's, sure I'm not faking
[Em] When was my [Gb] Lord suddenly _ _ [A] tempered
Stopped his ears [A] with my lack _ [Em] of _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [A] repentance
_ _ My [D]
lack [Em] of repentance
[Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ My [Em] lack of [Bm] repentance _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _