Beautiful As You - The Whitlams

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[Intro]
     

[Verse]
            
Travelling the

#           
 world from si

        
de to side
          
From Pocket Mo

             
untain to the 

          
Apple's eye
          
Like a misanth

              
rope on Hallow

      
een I'm hiding
            
Under a tapest

           
ry of stone hu

             
ng from the sk

 
y

           
But in all the

              
 ocean's blur,

            
 the planes an

d taxis
             
And the places

              
 I have been a

       
nd left behind

             
Nothing's to m

            
e as beautiful

    
 as you
            
And how we'd b

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e, if I could 

       
say it too
            
Nothing's to m

            
e as beautiful

             
, as beautiful

             
, as beautiful

     
 as you

          
From a one hor

             
se town where 

           
we played over

 50 songs
           
To an English 

            
rose and a Nov

            
a Scotian girl
          
And when the s

              
un came up we 

       
all found the 

meaning
             
If I could rea

             
d my writing I

           
 could tell yo

   
u now

           
I'm looking do

              
wn Manhattan t

    
o the lady
             
And casting st

              
reetlight shad


ows in a cloud

 of rising ste

am

           
I miss you gir

           
l like I miss 

              
the skyline of


 my own hometo

wn
           
And I love you

           
 like I love t

             
he familiar fe

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eling of being

             
 homeward boun

 
d

           
From an eagle 

              
hitching ice o

     
n down the Hud

son
             
Through an ear

            
ly morning mis

t out on the b

ay

           
Nothing's to m

       
e as beautiful

 as you
             
Nothing's for 

          
free, I know t

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hey say that t

# 
oo
            
Nothing's to m

            
e as beautiful

             
, as beautiful

             
, as beautiful

    
 as you

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