Portrait Of A Blank Slate - Lovejoy

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*** Means strum three times.

      

[Verse 1]

He told me tha

t much and now

 he's dead

Taught me to k

ill my indulge

nces

With a sharp b

low to the tem

ple
           
Pick up the ph

    
one call and d

o everything h

e says

I could take a

 plastic camer

a

We could make 

such a pretty 

picture

Oh, so happy, 

oh, oh, so hap

py
           
I'm pretty coo

  
l once you get

 to know me

[Refrain]

I feel at some

 point, I brok

e my mind

I'm always sea

rching the sil

ent type

How do you all

 make it look 

so easy?
        
You open your 

   
hearts up so q

uickly, it sca

res me

[Verse 2]

She's an artis

t, paints acro

ss my chest

Goes to partie

s, act like ho

tel guests

Wake up Monday

, now it's ove

r
          
Don't you know

#
 no-one gets w

hat they came 

here for?

I could paint 

her, wrapped a

round her

We could make 

such a pretty 

picture

Oh, so happy, 

oh, oh, so hap

py
          
I'm pretty coo

#
l once you get

 to know me

[Chorus]

But I'm just t

he same
          
I've got a bor

#
ing name

Across the boa

rd from what y

ou want and wh

at you came he

re for

So, I'll wait 

here for you
           
I said, please

    
 just let me s

tay

Oh, just let m

e stay
***

[Verse 3]

I guess you kn

ow now what to

 expect

He lives your 

own life in re

trospect

You know it bo

res me? These 

insecurities
         
Breaks you dow

n just to act 

as the archite

ct

I could wait h

ere, by the we

st pier

Watched the fl

otsam float, s

lowly disappea

r

Oh, so happy, 

oh, oh, so hap

py
         
If only you kn

ew just how mu

ch better thin

gs could be

[Instrumental]
  
*** ***

 
   Another wee

k of action
  
     Another h

*
ypoglycaemic r

eaction

         

[Chorus]

But I'm just t

he same
          
I've got a bor

#
ing name

Across the boa

rd from what y

ou want and wh

at you came he

re for

So, I'll wait 

here for you
           
I said, please

    
 just let me s

tay

Oh, just let m

e stay
Oh just let me!

[Outro]
  

I'm sorry it's

 all so predic

table
  

I'm sorry it's

 all so predic

table
***