Beautiful Lyrics by Belle And Sebastian

Beautiful

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