Belle & Sebastian - Piazza New York Catcheradd

(intro) B

B                                    E              B
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world
C#m                                 G#m
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
    C#m                                F#
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
    C#m                                     F#
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
    E                                     G#m
Oh, elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
  C#m           F#        G#m
A trail for the devil to erase

B                                E                    B
San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
C#m                               G#m
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
   C#m                           F#
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay
   C#m                           F#
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
          E
About the saddest book you've ever read
     G#m
That always makes you cry
    C#m             F#             G#m
The statue’s crying too and well he may

  B                                 E            B
I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
  C#m                       G#m
I love you, my responsibility has found a place
  C#m                                 F#
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
     C#m                          F#
Come wave upon me from the family wider net absurd
             E                                G#m
“You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job"
C#m        F#              G#m
Maybe, but not what she deserves

  B                                  E                 B
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
      C#m                          G#m
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
  C#m                            F#
a privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style
      C#m                            F#
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by
       E                            G#m
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
     C#m              F#           G#m
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare

    B                          E             B
The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
    C#m                             G#m
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
   C#m                           F#
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
   C#m                                    F#
He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway
       E                            G#m
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
C#m              F#          G#m
Life outside the diamond is a wrench

  B                                   E                 B
I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
  C#m                               G#m
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
  C#m                             F#
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
      C#m                         F#
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee"
        E                                 G#m
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower
C#m              F#         G#m
Meet you at the statue in an hour
C#m              F#         G#m
Meet you at the statue in an hour