All This Useless Beauty Chords & Lyrics by Elvis Costello
All This Useless Beauty
guitar chords lyrics
ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY
D D/C#
It's at times such as this she'd be tempted to spit
Bm D7/A
If she wasn't so ladylike
G D/F#
She imagines how she might have lived
Em Em/F# Em/G A
back when legends and history collide
D D/C# Bm
So she looks to her prince finding since he's so charmingly
D7/A
slumped at her side
G D/F#
Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
Bm Bm/A E
And she's waiting for passion or humor to strike
A G
What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
G A D
All this useless beauty
D D/C#
Good Friday arrived, the sky darkened on time
Bm D7/A
'Til he almost began to negotiate
G D/F# Em Em/F# Em/G A
She held his head like a baby and said "It's okay if you cry"
D D/C#
Now he wants her to dress as if you couldn't guess
Bm D7/A
He desires to impress his associates
G D/F#
But he's part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
Bm Bm/A E
So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny
CHORUS
C D G
She won't practice the looks from the great tragic books
G G/F# Em
That were later disgraced to face celluloid
C D G
It won't even make sense but you can bet
C D G
If she isn't a sweetheart or plaything or pet
C A
The film turns her into an unveiled threat
D D/C#
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Bm A
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
G D/F# Em Em/F# Em/G A
While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
D D/C#
And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
Bm A
They still think they're the gods of antiquity
G D/F#
If something you missed didn't even exist
Bm Bm/A E
It was just an ideal -- is it such a surprise?
Chorus [x2]
