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Belle and Sebastian : Dear Catastrophe Waitress
2003


  1. I'm A Cuckoo
  2. Piazza, New York Catcher

I'm A Cuckoo

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I'm glad to see you, I had a funny dream
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Gm
You were wearing funny shoes
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Gm
You were going to a dance
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Bb
Am
You were dressed like a punk but you were too young to
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) Remember
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Glad to see you, I'm outside the house
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Gm
I'm not thinking right today
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Gm
I've got no energy
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Bb
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I'm glad that you were waiting with me
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) Tell me all about your day
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Breaking off is misery
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I see a wilderness for you and me
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Am
Punctuated by philosophy
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Bb
I'm wondering how things could've been
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I'm happy for you, you've made it hard for me
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Gm
I counted on your company
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Gm
You were staying with your friends tonight
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Bb
I'm feeling sorry for myself
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C
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) I keep taking everything to be to be a sign
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Bb
I'm happy for you, but now I know this hurt is poison
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Gm
Too sharp to be bled
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Gm
I'm sitting on my empty bed
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Bb
On my empty bed at night
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) The fever grows it's pounding, pounding
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I'd rather be in Tokyo
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I'd rather listen to Thin Lizzy, oh
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Am
Watch the Sunday gang in Harajuku
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There's something wrong with me, I'm a cuckoo
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Scary moment, lovin' every moment
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Gm
I was high from playing shows
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Gm
We lost a singer to her clothes
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Gm
My trouble raised its ugly head
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Bb
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) I was revealed and I was home in bed I was a kid again
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Bb
Jesus told me, go after every coin
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Gm
Like it was the last in the world
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Gm
And protect the wayward child
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Bb
But I'm a little lost sheep, I need my Bo-Peep
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) You know I need my Shepherd here tonight
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Breaking off is misery
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I see a wilderness for you and me
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Am
Punctuated by philosophy
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I'm wondering how things could've been
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I'd like to see you, but really I should stay away
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Gm
And let you settle down
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I've got no claims to your crown
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I was the boss of you, and I loved you
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) You know I loved you, it's all over now
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I was there for you when you were lonely
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I was there when you were bad
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Gm
I was there when you were sad
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Bb
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Now it's my time of need I'm thinking, do I have to
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) Plead to get you by my side?
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I'd rather be in Tokyo
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I'd rather listen to Thin Lizzy, oh
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Watch the Sunday gang in Harajuku
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There's something wrong with me, I'm a cuckoo
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x2


Piazza, New York Catcher

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Elope with me Miss Private and we'll sail around the world
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Em
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
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How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
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D
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
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Em
Oh elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze
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Em
A trail for the devil to erase
San Francisco's calling us, the Giants and Mets will play Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay? We hung about the stadium, we've got no place to stay We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell About the saddest book you ever read, it always makes you cry The statue's crying too and well he may I love you I've a drowning grip on your adoring face I love you my responsibility has found a place Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words Come wave upon me from the family wider net absurd "You'll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job" Maybe, but not what she deserves Elope with me Miss Private and we'll drink ourselves awake We'll taste the coffee houses and award certificates A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960 style We'll comment on the decor and we'll help the passer-by And at dusk when work is over we'll continue the debate In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare The catcher hits for three-eighteen and catches every day The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor He knows the drink affects his speed he's praying for a doorway Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench Life outside the diamond is a wrench I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend I know it wouldn't come to love, my heroine pretend A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day You'd settle for an epitaph like, "Walk Away, Renee" The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like a flower Meet you at the statue in an hour Meet you at the statue in an hour