Beautiful

Belle And Sebastian

She lay in bed all night watching the morning change


She lay in bed all night watching the colours change


She lay in bed all night watching the colours change into green and gold





The doctor told her years ago that she was ill


The doctor told her years ago to take a pill


The doctor told her years ago that she'd go blind if she wasn't careful





They let Lisa go blind


The world was at her feet and she was looking down


They let Lisa go blind


But everyone she knew thought she was beautiful


Only slightly mental


Beautiful, a bit temperamental


Beautiful, only slightly mental


Beautiful





She thought it would be fun to try photography


She thought it would be fun to try pornography


She thought it would be fun to try most anything


She was tired of sleeping





They let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind, let Lisa go blind


They let Lisa go blind


She's looking like a queen


But if you knew what's going on in her life


There'd be a thousand barren mothers there to talk to her


If you knew what's going on in her life


There'd be two hundred troubled teenagers to sit with her


And to talk to her


If you knew what's going on in her life


What's going on in her life


What's going on in her life


There would be a documentary on Radio 4





She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes


She thought it was the answer to the fashion blues


She mad herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes


But she walked with a limp