War Paint - Forever Beautiful chords by Soundtracks

Chords with lyrics

Intro
(Helena Rubinstein speaking)
C majorC   G+G               C majorC
These portraits ... they trap me in amber.
They will not age.
They will live forever.

verse 1
    C majorC
My Dali dear,
That mad surrealist,
       FF
He made me beautiful
D MajorD
Forever Beautiful
DbDb      E MajorE
My eyes like gems,
C majorC          D MajorD
Notice, please, each tiny lash
AbAb          C majorC
Would you believe he painted with his own mustache?

verse 2
C majorC
Raoul Dufy,
      EbmEbm
A augmentedA brilliant colorist
     BB   D MajorD
He made me beautiful

Forever Beautiful
DbDb      C majorC
A augmentedA few deft strokes
Poppy red and iris blue
AbAb                     G+G   C majorC
In my small way I do know something of this too

verse 3
C majorC
Made women glorious, Made women glamorous
                      FF
Used all my art to halt the march of time
 D MajorD        GbGb
I slowed it down a bit,
      FF
There is no stopping it,
  GbGb               FF
But in a painting it is always your prime
BB    FF
Right?

verse 4
     C majorC
Tamara de Lempicka
She was bisexual
      EbmEbm
You see her love for me,
D MajorD
But it's sub-textual
DbDb     C majorC
My lifelong fight
Is to keep my figure trim
AbAb                    C majorC
But now I eat 'cause Giacometti keeps me slim

Bridge
(First man speaking)
C majorC
Seven guest rooms. When was the last time she even had a visitor?

(Second man speaking)
She's old, and scared.

(First man speaking)
BB
Wouldn't you be?

verse 4
AbAb
Good, go then, you money men
 EbmEbm       BbmBbm
I read your beady eyes:
EbmEbm        AbAb
'Vain old lady all  alone
  DbDb      C majorC    BbmBbm
In bed until she dies

Verse 5
BbmBbm
I admit,
               C majorC   AbAb
I am a little bit afraid to me-et death,
      D MajorD        BbmBbm
But with brilliant eye for art,
   G+G  D MajorD
When I depart,
    BB
I'll cheat death

Verse 6
DbDb
With my Picasso
His early cubist years
      GbGb
I posed no clothes with him,
        EbmEbm
Thank God, who knows with him?
BbmBbm              DbDb      EbmEbm
He says 'Your ears are like elephant in size
      G+G       DbDb          AbAb   DbDb
I say from you, well, who can tell from ears or eyes?

Verse 7
DbDb
When I was girl of eight,
    G+G
My papa sneered at me
  AbAb       DbDb      C majorC
A augmentedA plainer face he'd never seen before
     G+G
I said to hell with fate,
       DbDb
I'll mold my destiny,
AbAb                     DbDb
Packed my satchel and walked right out the door

Verse 8
    DbDb
From discontented life
AbAb    DbDb
Without a cent I was
                 C majorC
Became a name the world could not ignore

Verse 9
   C majorC
I reinvent my life
     BB
As every artist does
   BbmBbm
I had nothing, I knew nothing
    G+G           GbGb
I only know there must be something more
AbAb  E MajorE
So much more

verse 10
DbDb
Look at them all
         E MajorE
Their light will never dim
DbDb            GbGb
If death should come for me,
FF
They bar the door on him
         DbDb
Though flesh may fade,
BbmBbm         DbDb
Canvas lives immortally,
                       C majorC
And there I'll hang from now through all eternity


verse 11
      D MajorD
Who gives a damn?
No children visit me
       AbAb   G+G
These are my pro-ge-ny
Each an exquisite me

verse 12
BB
Who says I'm old?
D MajorD      G+G
I look at my life so far
E MajorE
And I am beautiful, And I feel beautiful
C majorC    D MajorD
Forever beautiful
BB             AbAb C majorC
When you feel beautiful,
D MajorD
You are

Outro
G+G FF D MajorD