Beautiful — текст песни (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 shed go blind if she wasnt 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

Shes looking like a queen

But if you knew whats going on in her life

Thered be a thousand barren mothers there to talk to her

If you knew whats going on in her life

Thered be two hundred troubled teenagers to sit with her

And to talk to her

If you knew whats going on in her life

Whats going on in her life

Whats 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