Intro: AmFDmGAmFG
Sha la la la
Verse:
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I was down at the New Amsterdam
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staring at this yellow-haired girl. Mr.
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Jones strikes up a conversation, with this
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black-haired, flamenco dancer. She dances while
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her father plays, guitar. Sheʼs suddenly
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beautiful. We all want something beautiful. I
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wish I was beautiful. So come dance this silence
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down through the morning. sha la la la la la
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la la yeah uh huh... Cut up, Maria!
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Show me some of them Spanish dances.
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Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones. Believe in
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me. Help me believe in anything ʼcause
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I, want to be someone who believes, yeah...
Chorus:
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Mr. Jones and me, tell each other fairy
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tales, yeah well we stare at the beautiful women
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"Sheʼs looking at you. Ah, no, no, sheʼs looking
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at me." Smiling in the bright lights. Coming
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through in stereo. When everybody loves you,
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you can never be lonely.
Verse:
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Im gonna paint my picture. Paint myself in
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blue and red and black and gray. All of the
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beautiful colors are very very meaningful. You
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know gray is my favorite color. I felt so
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symbolic, yesterday. If I knew Picasso, I would buy
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myself a gray guitar and play,
Refrain:
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Mr. Jones and
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me look into the future. We stare at the
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beautiful women "Sheʼs looking at you. Uh, I
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donʼt think so. Sheʼs looking at me." Standing
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in the spotlight. I bought myself a gray
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guitar. When everybody loves me, I will never
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be lonely, I will never be lonely, Iʼm never gonna
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be lonely. I want to be a lion.
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Everybody wants to pass as cats. We
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all want to be big, big stars, but weʼve got
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different reasons for that. Believe in me
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because I donʼt believe in anything
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and I, want to be someone to believe, to believe,
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to believe. Mr.Jones and me, stumbling
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through the barrio. Yeah we stare at the
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beautiful women "Sheʼs perfect for you, Man,
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thereʼs got to be somebody for me."I want to be
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Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a
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little more funky. When everybody loves you,son,
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thatʼs just about as funky as you can be.
Outro:
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Mr.Jones and me staring at the video. When
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I look at the television I want to see me,
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staring right back at me. We all want to be
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big, stars but we donʼt know why and we
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donʼt know how. But when everybody loves me, Iʼm
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going to be, just about as happy as I can be.
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Mr. Jones and me, weʼre gonna be big stars...