Chords for Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty (Live on 2 Meter Sessions)
Tempo:
93.6 bpm
Chords used:
D
A
G
Bm
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Are you ready to go?
[D]
Have you got the guitar?
[B]
[D]
[A] It's a time such as this
She'd be tempted to spit
[B] If she wasn't so [D] ladylike
She [G] imagines that she might have lived
Back when legends and [F#m] history [G] collide
[A] [Dm] So she looks to her prince
[A] Finding senses so [Bm] charmingly
Slumped at her [D] side
[G] Those days are recalled [D] on the gallery wall
[Bm] And she's waiting [A] for [B] passion or humor to [E] strike
What [A] shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All this [A] useless [D]
beauty
[A] [D] Good Friday arrived, the [A] sky darkened on time
Till he almost began to [D] negotiate
[G] She held his head [D] like a baby and said
[Em] It's okay [F#m] if you cry
[G] [A] [D] Now he wants her to dress [A] as if you couldn't guess
He desires to [D] impress his associates
[G] But he's part ugly beast and [D] Atlantic deceased
[Bm] So she [D] finds that the [E] mixture is hard to deny
[A] What shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All this useless [D]
[A] beauty
[D] [C] She won't practice the looks [E] from the great [G] tragic books
That will lead to [E] disgrace to [Em] face cellulite
It [C] won't even make [D] sense
But you [G] can bet if [C] she isn't a sweet [E] art and plaything [G] up head
[C] The film turns her [Em] into an unbailed thread
[A] Nonsense [D] prevails, modesty fails
[Bm] Grace and virtue turn [Am] into stupidity
[G] While the calendar fades, [D] almost all barricades
[Em] To a [F#m] pale [G] compromise
[A] And our leaders have feasts [D] on the backsides of beasts
[Bm] They still think they're the [D] gods of antiquity
[G] If something you [D] missed didn't even exist
[Bm] It was just an [E] ideal, is it such a surprise?
[A]
What shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All this [A] useless [D] beauty
[A] What shall we do?
What [G] shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All of [A] this useless [D]
beauty
[G]
[D]
Have you got the guitar?
[B]
[D]
[A] It's a time such as this
She'd be tempted to spit
[B] If she wasn't so [D] ladylike
She [G] imagines that she might have lived
Back when legends and [F#m] history [G] collide
[A] [Dm] So she looks to her prince
[A] Finding senses so [Bm] charmingly
Slumped at her [D] side
[G] Those days are recalled [D] on the gallery wall
[Bm] And she's waiting [A] for [B] passion or humor to [E] strike
What [A] shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All this [A] useless [D]
beauty
[A] [D] Good Friday arrived, the [A] sky darkened on time
Till he almost began to [D] negotiate
[G] She held his head [D] like a baby and said
[Em] It's okay [F#m] if you cry
[G] [A] [D] Now he wants her to dress [A] as if you couldn't guess
He desires to [D] impress his associates
[G] But he's part ugly beast and [D] Atlantic deceased
[Bm] So she [D] finds that the [E] mixture is hard to deny
[A] What shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All this useless [D]
[A] beauty
[D] [C] She won't practice the looks [E] from the great [G] tragic books
That will lead to [E] disgrace to [Em] face cellulite
It [C] won't even make [D] sense
But you [G] can bet if [C] she isn't a sweet [E] art and plaything [G] up head
[C] The film turns her [Em] into an unbailed thread
[A] Nonsense [D] prevails, modesty fails
[Bm] Grace and virtue turn [Am] into stupidity
[G] While the calendar fades, [D] almost all barricades
[Em] To a [F#m] pale [G] compromise
[A] And our leaders have feasts [D] on the backsides of beasts
[Bm] They still think they're the [D] gods of antiquity
[G] If something you [D] missed didn't even exist
[Bm] It was just an [E] ideal, is it such a surprise?
[A]
What shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All this [A] useless [D] beauty
[A] What shall we do?
What [G] shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All of [A] this useless [D]
beauty
[G]
Key:
D
A
G
Bm
E
D
A
G
_ _ Are you ready to go?
_ _ [D]
Have you got the guitar?
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] It's a time such as this
She'd be tempted to spit
[B] If she wasn't so [D] ladylike _ _
She [G] imagines that she might have lived
Back when legends and [F#m] history [G] collide
_ [A] _ [Dm] So she looks to her prince
[A] Finding senses so [Bm] charmingly
Slumped at her _ [D] side
_ [G] Those days are recalled [D] on the gallery wall
[Bm] And she's waiting [A] for [B] passion or humor to [E] strike _
What [A] _ shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All this [A] useless _ [D]
beauty
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ Good Friday arrived, the [A] sky darkened on time
Till he almost began to [D] negotiate
_ [G] She held his head [D] like a baby and said
[Em] It's okay [F#m] if you cry
[G] _ _ [A] _ [D] Now he wants her to dress [A] as if you couldn't guess
He desires to [D] impress his associates
[G] But he's part ugly beast and [D] Atlantic deceased
[Bm] So she [D] finds that the [E] mixture is hard to deny _ _
_ _ [A] What shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
_ All this useless [D] _
[A] beauty
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] She won't practice the looks [E] from the great [G] tragic books
That will lead to [E] disgrace to [Em] face _ cellulite
It [C] won't even make [D] sense
But you [G] can bet if [C] she isn't a sweet [E] art and plaything [G] up head
[C] The film turns her [Em] into an unbailed thread
_ [A] _ _ Nonsense [D] prevails, modesty fails
[Bm] Grace and virtue turn [Am] into _ stupidity
[G] While the calendar fades, [D] almost all barricades
[Em] To a [F#m] pale [G] compromise
_ [A] _ And our leaders have feasts [D] on the backsides of beasts
[Bm] They still think they're the [D] gods of _ antiquity
[G] If something you [D] missed didn't even exist
[Bm] It was just an [E] ideal, is it such a surprise?
_ _ _ [A]
What shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty _
All this [A] useless _ [D] beauty _
_ [A] What shall we do?
What [G] shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
_ All of [A] this useless [D]
beauty _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D]
Have you got the guitar?
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] It's a time such as this
She'd be tempted to spit
[B] If she wasn't so [D] ladylike _ _
She [G] imagines that she might have lived
Back when legends and [F#m] history [G] collide
_ [A] _ [Dm] So she looks to her prince
[A] Finding senses so [Bm] charmingly
Slumped at her _ [D] side
_ [G] Those days are recalled [D] on the gallery wall
[Bm] And she's waiting [A] for [B] passion or humor to [E] strike _
What [A] _ shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
All this [A] useless _ [D]
beauty
[A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ Good Friday arrived, the [A] sky darkened on time
Till he almost began to [D] negotiate
_ [G] She held his head [D] like a baby and said
[Em] It's okay [F#m] if you cry
[G] _ _ [A] _ [D] Now he wants her to dress [A] as if you couldn't guess
He desires to [D] impress his associates
[G] But he's part ugly beast and [D] Atlantic deceased
[Bm] So she [D] finds that the [E] mixture is hard to deny _ _
_ _ [A] What shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
_ All this useless [D] _
[A] beauty
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] She won't practice the looks [E] from the great [G] tragic books
That will lead to [E] disgrace to [Em] face _ cellulite
It [C] won't even make [D] sense
But you [G] can bet if [C] she isn't a sweet [E] art and plaything [G] up head
[C] The film turns her [Em] into an unbailed thread
_ [A] _ _ Nonsense [D] prevails, modesty fails
[Bm] Grace and virtue turn [Am] into _ stupidity
[G] While the calendar fades, [D] almost all barricades
[Em] To a [F#m] pale [G] compromise
_ [A] _ And our leaders have feasts [D] on the backsides of beasts
[Bm] They still think they're the [D] gods of _ antiquity
[G] If something you [D] missed didn't even exist
[Bm] It was just an [E] ideal, is it such a surprise?
_ _ _ [A]
What shall we do?
[G] What shall we do?
With all this useless beauty _
All this [A] useless _ [D] beauty _
_ [A] What shall we do?
What [G] shall we do?
With all this useless beauty
_ All of [A] this useless [D]
beauty _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _