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As Long as I'm Beautiful

from Tai Shan Free Bootlegs 2010 by Tai Shan

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    This song was written about Princess Bride from the perspective of the Princess after she has been captured by the man in black, Westley. Westley is questioned her why she is marring a man without love, and she is defending her position.

    This is a song Tai Shan wrote for the The Bushwick Book Club, a book club that write songs about the books they read and performs them for an audience at the Can Can.
    The Bushwick club donates a large portion of the profits to The Seattle Public Library Foundation.
    Purchasable with gift card

     

lyrics

Bmin F# 2x

3
Bmin B0
I’m not a pretty princess
G F#7
I have scars that I could show you
Bo Bmin
if you needed me too

Bo
Don’t tease and taunt me
G F# Bmin
say I never learned to love like you


Bmin Bo
So go ahead and kill me
G F#
I’m already dead inside
Bmin
Come on get with it
Bo G
I’m marrying a man who thirsts for the hunt
F#
and tastes for my hide

G D Bmin G
Your lucky to wear the shadows with your face in black
G D Bmin Bmin/A G F#7
Don’t you see I’m tied to this fate and I can not escape



D G Bmin4 G
as long as I’m beautiful someones going to hunt me down
D G Bmin4 G
As long as I’m beautiful someones going to break me down
D G Bmin4 E7sus4
As long as I’m beautiful someones will want me as a prize
Bmin Bmin/A G F#
Thats how I’m strong enough to survive without love in my life



Bmin B0
When I was a young girl
G F#7
I’d ride through town and even then
Bo Bmin
the greasy little school boys would try to tame and rope me down

Bmin B0
If you really must know
G F#7
I learned to love such a long time ago
G7
But when I finally confess
F#
he picked up and left
Bmin
said he needed more money to
Emin
date such a beauty
F# Bmin// Bmin/A
and that was the last I heard of him.



G D Bmin G
Your lucky to wear the shadows with your face in black
G D Bmin G A
Don’t you see I’m tied to this fate and I can’t find my face

D G Bmin4
as long as I’m beautiful someones going to hunt me
G
down
D G Bmin4
As long as I’m beautiful someones going to break me
G
down
D G Bmin4
As long as I’m beautiful someones will want me as a
E7sus4
prize
Bmin Bmin/A G D
I’m strong enough to survive without love in my life

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from Tai Shan Free Bootlegs 2010, released January 1, 2010

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Tai Shan Seattle, Washington

Tai Shan is an Americana songwriter whose music has been featured in Billboard Magazine, American Songwriter, Americana UK, and on NPR. Based in Nashville, her songwriting focuses on positive messages. Tai Shan and her husband Austin, have toured the United States and Canada and performed for venues such as the Bluebird and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ... more

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