Beyond Belief

Words & Music:

Elvis Costello

 

D

 History repeats the old conceits

     G

 The glib replies the same defeats

D

 Keep your finger on important issues

      F

 With crocodile tears and a pocketful of tissues

 

D

 I'm just the oily slick

        G

 On the windup world of the nervous tick

D                     F

 In a very fashionable hovel

 

D

 I hang around dying to be tortured

        G

 You'll never be alone in the bone orchard

       D/F#                     F

 This battle with the bottle is nothing so novel

 

D                       G

 So in this almost empty gin palace

           D/F#

 Through a two-way looking glass

    F

 You see your alice

 

D

 You know she has no sense

G

 For all your jealousy

D                          F

 In a sense she still smiles very sweetly

 

                 D

 Charged with insults and flattery

G

 Her body moves with malice

D                     F

 Do you have to be so cruel to be callous

 

D                        G

 And now you find you fit this identikit completely

 

D/F#                     F

 You say you have no secrets

 

 And then leave discreetly

 

G

 I might make it California's fault

 Be locked in Geneva's deepest vault

      Bm                                            G

 Just like the canals of Mars and the Great Barrier Reef

                         Dm

 I come to you beyond belief

 

D

 My hands were clammy and cunning

G

 She's been suitably stunning

D                         F 

 But I know there's not a hope in Hades

 

D                    G

 All the laddies cat call and wolf whistle

D

 So called gentlemen and ladies

F

 Dog fight like rose and thistle

D

 I've got a feeling

G

 I'm going to get a lot of grief

 D/F#

 Once this seemed so appealing

F

 Now I am beyond belief