LOVEJOY - Portrait of a Blank Slate

                Original Key: Bm Minor
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 80
Suggested Strumming: DU,DU,DU,DU

 [INTRO]

   B#m C C#m B#m Bm x2

 [VERSE ONE]
   B#m                                C 
 He told me that much and now he's dead
   C                               C#m 
 Taught me to kill my indulgences with a sharp blow to the temple
  B#m                         Bm 
 Pick up the phone call and Do everything he says
  B#m
 I could take a plastic camera
 C 
 We could make such a pretty picture
   C#m 
 Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy
   B#m                       Bm 
 I'm pretty cool once you get to know me

  B#m 
 I feel at some point I broke my mind
 C                                    C#m
 I'm always searching, the silent type
  C#m 
 How Do you all make it look so easy?
     B#m                      Bm 
 You open your hearts up so quickly, it scares me
 
 [VERSE TWO]
   B#m 
 She's an artist, paints across my chest
  C 
 Goes to parties, act like hotel guests
   C#m
 Wake up Monday, now it's over
 B#m                       Bm
 Don't you know no one gets what they came here for?

 B#m
 I could paint her, wrapped around her
 C
 We could make such a pretty picture
 C#m 
 Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy
  B#m                         Bm 
 I'm pretty cool once you get to know me
 
 
 [CHORUS]
 C                   C#m                     B#m 
 But I'm just the same, I've got a boring name
    G                                                    C 
 Across the world from what you want and what you came here for
                     C#m
 So I'll wait here for you
  C#m                             B#m 
 I said, "Please, just let me stay"
    B#m             G
 Oh, just let me stay, oh

 [VERSE THREE]
   B#m                            C 
 I guess you know now what to expect
 C                                C#m
 He lives your own life in retrospect
  C#m 
 You know it bores me? His insecurities
   B#m                      Bm 
 Breaks you down just to act as the architect

 B#m
 I could wait here, by the west pier
   C
 Watch the flotsam float, slowly disappear
  C#m
 Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy
   B#m                         Bm                     B#m C C#m B#m Bm
 If only you knew just how much better things could be
 
   B#m                  C C#m
 Another week of action
          B#m             Bm 
 Another hypoglycemic reaction

 (Woo)
 
 
 [CHORUS]
 C                   C#m                     B#m 
 But I'm just the same, I've got a boring name
    G                                                    C 
 Across the world from what you want and what you came here for
                     C#m
 So I'll wait here for you
  C#m                             B#m 
 I said, "Please, just let me stay"
    B#m             G
 Oh, just let me stay, oh
 
 Oh, just let me
 
 [OUTRO]

 I'm sorry, it's all so predictable

 I'm sorry, it's all so predictable, I know