Am  F  Dm  G                 Am     F    G          G
             sha la la la la la la         uh huh...

Am                    F         Dm              G
I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
    Am                       F                G
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer
Am                   F            Dm                      G
She dances while his father plays guitar.  She's suddenly beautiful
   Am                 F           G
We all want something beautiful   I wish I was beautiful

        Am                 F
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Dm           G           Am        F    G          *
   sha la la la la la la la  yeah         uh huh...
Am      F       Dm                   G
Cut up, Maria!  Show me some of them Spanish dances
Am        F           G
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Am         F    Dm                 G
Believe in me   Help me believe in anything
        Am           F             G
(cause) I want to be someone who believes

C    F           G
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
C                      F
Stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's looking at you.  Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."
C              F               G
Smiling in the bright lights   Coming through in stereo
     C         F          G
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely

Am              F         Dm              G
I will paint my picture   Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
Am                   F               G
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
           Am                  F       Dm         G         *
(you know) Gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday
Am          F             G
If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

C   F            G
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
C                      F
Stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's looking at you.  Uh, I don't think so.  She's looking at me."
C               F         G
Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar
     C         F         G                   Am
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely

                F
I will never be lonely
             Am           G
I will never gonna be lonely
Am                   F
I want to be a lion  Everybody wants to pass as cats
Am                                   G
We all want to be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that.
Am                      F
Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
    Am                               G
and I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.

C   F            G
Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
        C                      F
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
       G
"She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me."
C                F
I want to be Bob Dylan
    G
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
     C         F          G
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be.

C    F           G
Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
       C               F                 G
When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me.
C                 F                 G
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how.
         C           F                    G
But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can
be.
C   F             G
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars.....