Belle & Sebastian - Piazza New York Catcheradd

(intro) EE A EElope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the worldF#m C#mI will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl F#m BHow many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take? F#m BHow many nights of limping round on pagan holidays? A C#mOh, elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze F#m B C#mA trail for the devil to eraseE A ESan Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will playF#m C#mPiazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay? F#m BWe hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay F#m BWe hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell AAbout the saddest book you've ever read C#mThat always makes you cry F#m B C#mThe statue’s crying too and well he may E A EI love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face F#m C#mI love you, my responsibility has found a place F#m BBeside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words F#m BCome wave upon me from the family wider net absurd A C#m“You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job"F#m B C#mMaybe, but not what she deserves E A EElope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake F#m C#mWe’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates F#m Ba privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style F#m BWe’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by A C#mAnd at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate F#m B C#mIn a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare E A EThe catcher hits for .318 and catches every day F#m C#mThe pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays F#m BHe goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor F#m BHe knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway A C#mBack into the life he wants and the confession of the benchF#m B C#mLife outside the diamond is a wrench E A EI wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend F#m C#mI know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend F#m BA lady stepping from the songs we love until this day F#m BYou’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee" A C#mThe sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flowerF#m B C#mMeet you at the statue in an hourF#m B C#mMeet you at the statue in an hour