estelle Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
I was painting [G]a still life this morning
Of a throat [Am]loz enge sitting
on a copy of Tropic of Cancer
The [C]only thing weird about
it is [D]that a year ago
I never thought [G]I'd paint anything again
I decided I wasn't ever gonna paint again
It didn't bother [Am]me too much,
Warhol's dead
[C]David Hockney's still alive,
I [D]don't need to [G]paint

[Verse 2]
I painted [G]over ten thousand paintings
Sad [Am]ones, funny ones,
dark ones and light ones
I've done [C]haystacks and rich
old [D]ladies by their pools
Wearing [G]nothing but a scarf
I've painted everything
there was to paint
Now it was time [Am]to sit back,
give interviews
Get on the inter[C]net, hang
out at club med
[D]Take stock of what I've [G]done

[Verse 3]
You know, the best [G]friend
I ever had was a dog
It sound[Am]s like a cliche unless it's
happened to you
Some days [C]that dog was the only
[D]reason I even got out [G]of bed
That dog went everywhere with me and then
I heard the crack addicts
Were steal[Am]in' dogs and selling
them for animal research
It sounded [C]like an urban myth to me [D]like the
mouse in the Coke bottle
[G]But I started leavin'
her at home after that

[Verse 4]
You [G]know, Paula was my
wife for a while
She ran [Am]off to Paris with the
great grandson of Van Gogh
[C]A cartoonist who did [D]fashion
[G]graphics for Le Monde
When Paula left she took my dog,
I never [Am]saw her again
Except in the court during the
custody battle
[C]She won and got to keep the dog
[D]And I didn't speak to any
[G]one for months

[Verse 5]
You [G]know sometimes it feels
Like there's [Bm]so much
that you need
[C]Sometimes [Bm]the world is
upside [G]down
Sometimes it seems like the
[Bm]only thing you need
[C]Is holdin' someone's [Bm]hand as
you walk through [Bb]town
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[Verse 6]
[G]
I started hanging around with Dino
He used to run a poker
[Am]game back east
Now he has a little coffee shop,
sells [C]cappuccino to his old pals
[D]Tommy, Chicago and Jim[G]my
the Wig and Ugly Rose

[Verse 7]
You know the best [G]person I ever knew
Was a Mormon woman named Estelle
[Am]She still calls me drunk every few months
And [C]asks me stuff I
don't want to [D]talk about
You can't talk [G]to her long unless
you're drunk yourself
Then we go all night
[Am][C][D]

[Verse 8]
[G]
Yeah she goes, "Why baby,
why baby, why baby, why
Have you [Am]turned your back on love?
You had so [C]many chances
Why [D]have you let 'em all go [G]by?"

[Verse 9]
Well, one [G]morning I was sitting out in
front of Dino's place
With Jake the [Am]Shears,
a guy from Philly who gives free mohawks
[C]There were a couple of young painters,
[D]I was hopin' to come by
So I [G]could give 'em some advice

[Verse 10]
Yeah, I was [G]sittin' there
updating my list of enemies
When this [Am]girl walks in and
the universe kind of stops
Turned [C]out she drank
the same tea as [D]me
Don't take more than that [G]to start
a conversation sometimes
She believed collage was the greatest
of all the arts
And was busy [Am]pasting pictures of horses,
next to ads for [C]laundry soap
Next to Mohammed [D]Ali,
she had a turquoise [G]in her ear
And said Rachmaninoff was
always in her head

[Verse 11]
But later that day I was trying to describe [Am]her
to Jimmy the Wig
I couldn't [C]find any words and I real[D]ized
I'd started to sketch [G]her chin
Somehow it didn't look right,
I scratched it out [Am]and tried it again
I filled an [C]entire pad, I threw it [D]away,
I never even came [G]close

[Verse 12]
For a six [G]days I sat at Dino's place
The [Am]rain wouldn't quit and
no one came in
[C]Finally on the seventh day it
[D]cleared and in she [G]walked
I asked her to sit with me and
I bought her a cup of tea
[Am]And I asked her to model for
me sometime
That after[C]noon I was at a canvas
[D]She was wearing a yellow dress
I [G]swore if she let me, I'd get it right

[Verse 13]
I've painted [G]over ten
thousand paintings
[Am]Sad ones, funny ones,
dark ones, and light ones
But [C]sitting there,
it was like I could[D]n't even write my own [G]name
I apologized and said, "It's
been a few months
If you have patience,
[Am]I'll get the hang of it again"
In the next [C]few weeks,
I [D]painted her hundreds [G]of times
If I get the nose right, the chin's too long
If I [Am]get 'em both right, the face is too thin
But I keep [C]after it and one [D]day I, I'll get
[G]it all right

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 14]
I painted [G]a still life this morning,
of a throat [Am]lozenge
Sitting on a copy of Tropic of Cancer
[C]The only thing was funny is [D]that
I never thought I'd paint any[G]thing again
I think I might go visit Estelle
Those Utah mountain
[Am]s are good for the soul
I'll bring my [C]brushes and some Jack Daniels
[D]And we can make up for los[G]t time

[Verse 15]
And she said, [G]"Why baby,
why baby, why baby why?
Baby [Am]why have you turned
your back on love
You had [C]so many chances
Why [D]have you let 'em all
go [G]by?"

[Verse 16]
And she says, [G]"Why baby,
why baby, why baby why?
Baby why [Am]have you turned
your back on love
You [C]had so many chances
Why [D]have you let 'em all go [G]by?"

[Verse 17]
[G]Sometimes it seems like [Bm]there's so
much that you need
Some[C]times [D]the world is
[G]upside down
Sometimes it seems like the
[Bm]only thing you need
Is hold[C]in' someone's [Bm]hand as you walk through [Bb]town

[Outro 1]
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