All This Useless Beauty

All This Useless Beauty easy guitar chords by Elvis Costello

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  • D

  • G

  • A

  • F#m

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  • C

  • Verse 1
    It's 
    at 
    times 
    such 
    as 
    this, 

    she'd be 
    tempted 
    to 
    spit 

    If she 
    wasn't 
    so 
    lady
    like 

    She ima
    gines 
    how 
    she 

    might 
    have lived 

    Back when 
    legends 
    and 
    history 

    collide 

    Verse 2
    So she 
    looks 
    to 
    her prince, 

    finding 
    he's 
    so 
    charmingly 

    Slumped 
    at 
    her side 

    Those 
    days 
    are 
    recalled 
    on 

    the 
    gal
    lery 
    wall 

    And she's 
    waiting 
    for pas

    sion 
    or 
    humor 
    to 
    strike 

    Verse 3
    What 
    shall 
    we 
    do, 

    what 
    shall 
    we 
    do 
    with 
    all 
    this 
    useless 
    beauty? 

    All 
    this 
    useless 
    beau
    ty 

    Verse 4

    Good 
    Friday 
    arrived, 

    the sky 
    darkened 
    on time 

    Till he 
    almost 
    began 
    to 
    negotiate 

    She 
    held 
    his 
    head 
    like 
    a baby 
    and 
    said 

    "it's 
    okay 
    if 
    you 
    cry" 

    Now 
    he 
    wants 
    her 
    to dress 
    as 
    if 

    you 
    couldn't 
    guess 

    He de
    sires 
    to 
    impress 
    his as
    sociates 

    But 
    he's 
    part 
    ugly 
    beast 
    and 

    Hel
    lenic 
    deceased 

    So she 
    finds 
    that 
    the mixture 

    is 
    hard 
    to 
    deny 

    Verse 5
    What 
    shall 
    we 
    do, 

    what 
    shall 
    we 
    do 
    with 
    all 
    this 
    useless 
    beauty? 

    All 
    this 
    useless 
    beau
    ty 

    Verse 6
    She won't 
    practice 
    the looks 
    from 

    the great 
    tragic 
    book

    That were 
    later 
    dis
    graced 

    to face 
    celluloid 

    It won't 
    even 
    make 
    sense, 

    but 
    you can 
    bet 

    If she 
    isn't 
    a sweetheart 

    or plaything 
    or pet 

    The 
    film 
    turns 
    her into 
    an 

    unveiled 
    threat 

    Verse 7
    Nonsense 
    prevails, 
    modesty 
    fails 

    Grace 
    and 
    virtue 
    turn 
    into 
    stupidity 

    While 
    the 
    calendar 
    fades 
    almost 
    all 

    barricades 
    to a 
    pale 
    com
    promise 

    And 
    our 
    leaders 
    have 
    feasts 
    on the 

    back
    sides 
    of beasts 

    They still 
    think 
    they're 

    the gods 
    of 
    an
    tiquity 

    If 
    something 
    you 
    missed 

    didn't 
    even 
    exist 

    It was 
    just 
    an 
    ideal, 

    is it 
    such 
    a surprise? 

    Verse 8
    What 
    shall 
    we 
    do, 

    what 
    shall 
    we do 
    with 
    all 
    this 
    useless 
    beau
    ty? 

    All 
    this 
    useless 
    beauty 

    Verse 9

    What 
    shall 
    we do, 

    what 
    shall 
    we do 
    with 
    all 
    this 
    useless 
    beau
    ty? 

    All 
    this 
    useless 
    beauty 

    Outro 1

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