All This Useless Beauty chords by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

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Verse 1
D 
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A 
D 
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A 
D 
It's at times such as this,
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she'd be tempted to spit
Bm 
D 
If she wasn't so ladylike
G 
She imagines how she
D 
might have lived
Em 
Back when legends and history
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G 
A 
collide

Verse 2
D 
So she looks to her prince,
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finding he's so charmingly
Bm 
D 
Slumped at her side
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Those days are recalled on
D 
the gallery wall
Bm 
And she's waiting for pas
D 
E 
sion or humor to strike

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Verse 3

What shall we do,

what shall we do with all this useless beauty?

All this useless beauty

Verse 4
D 
Good Friday arrived,
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the sky darkened on time
D 
Bm 
D 
Till he almost began to negotiate
G 
D 
She held his head like a baby and said
Em 
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G 
A 
"it's okay if you   cry"
D 
Now he wants her to dress as if
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D 
you   couldn't guess
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D 
He desires to impress his associates
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But he's part ugly beast and
D 
Hellenic deceased
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So she finds that the mixture
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E 
is hard to deny

Verse 5

What shall we do,

what shall we do with all this useless beauty?

All this useless beauty

Verse 6
C 
She won't practice the looks from
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G 
the great tragic books
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That were later disgraced
Em 
to face celluloid
C 
It won't even make sense,
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G 
but you can bet
C 
If she isn't a sweetheart
D 
G 
or plaything or pet
C 
Em 
Bm 
The film turns her into an
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A 
unveiled threat

Verse 7
D 
F#m 
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
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Bm 
D 
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
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D 
While the calendar fades almost all
Em 
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G 
A 
barricades to a pale compromise
D 
And our leaders have feasts on the
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D 
backsides of beasts
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They still think they're
D 
the gods of antiquity
G 
If something you missed
D 
didn't even exist
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It was just an ideal,
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E 
is it such a surprise?