Paint By Numbers chords by Al Stewart

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Intro:
A minorAm G+G FF G+G x8


🎸 Verse 1:
A minorAm      G+G      FF      G+G    A minorAm G+G FF G+G
When all the help in the world won't get you by
A minorAm      G+G        FF    G+G    C majorC
When all the friends that you lean on let you down
       E MajorE
You'll wonder why
A minorAm    G+G        FF    G/EG/E
I see you there with your painting box
     A minorAm    G+G        FF     G/EG/E
And your oils and brushes and your artist's smocks
C majorC      DmDm    FF     G+G
What'll you do if the Muse gets lost
     A minorAm
When I'm gone?

🎸 Instrumental:
A minorAm G+G FF G+G x4


🎸 Verse 2:
A minorAm     G+G     FF    G+G    A minorAm G+G FF G+G
You painted me in the way you said you knew
A minorAm    G+G      FF   G+G    C majorC      E MajorE
I don't believe that I saw myself in anything you drew
A minorAm    G+G      FF     G/EG/E
I say you never quite caught it right
A minorAm     G+G      FF     G/EG/E
You say you see me in a different light
C majorC      DmDm      FF     G+G
What'll you do with your black and white
     A minorAm G+G FF G+G A minorAm G+G FF
When I'm gone


🎸 Chorus:
       A augmentedA
You paint by numbers
G+G    FF      E MajorE
 I never noticed it before
       A augmentedA
You paint by numbers
G+G      FF       G+G
 It's just a closing of an open door
C majorC          BB
When you're looking round
  Bb majorBb       A minorAm
You won't see me no more
  G+G    FF
You paint by numbers

🎸 Instrumental:
A minorAm G+G FF G+G x4


🎸 Solo:
A minorAm G+G FF G+G x14


🎸 Verse 3:
A minorAm   G+G      FF     G+G    A minorAm G+G FF G+G
Staying here in this room just makes me pale
A minorAm   G+G      FF   G+G    C majorC     E MajorE
I never really could fit into your geometric scale
A minorAm    G+G     FF    G/EG/E
I see you measure my profile up
    A minorAm    G+G      FF   G/EG/E
And you mix your paints in a broken cup
C majorC      DmDm    FF      G+G
What'll you do if the brush gets stuck
     A minorAm G+G FF G+G A minorAm G+G FF
When I'm gone


🎸 Chorus:
       A augmentedA
You paint by numbers
G+G    FF      E MajorE
 I never noticed it before
       A augmentedA
You paint by numbers
G+G      FF       G+G
 It's just a closing of an open door
C majorC          BB
When you're looking round
  Bb majorBb       A minorAm
You won't see me no more
  G+G    FF
You paint by numbers


🎸 Instrumental:
A minorAm  G+G  FF  D7D7
A minorAm  G+G  FF  D7D7


🎸 Outro:
A minorAm G+G FF G+G
(repeat and fade)