VENUS ENVY

small case letters above chord symbols
indicate individual notes:
c4: middle C, and notes above in that octave...
c5: C above middle C
c3: C below middle C  etc.
numbers behind notes will only be indicated
when notes enter another octave or begin a new line


    c   bb3          c4   bb3             c4  bb3  c4
    Fm  Gm/C         Fm   Gm/C        Fm  Gm/C     Fm
f2  f   c    c eb f  f    c   c eb f  f   c  c eb  f

              Fm     Gm/C   Fm        Gm/C
Don't want no marble statue smooth and cold as

 db4  eb      db    eb    db
 Db7  Db9     Db7   Db9   Db7
 ice

         g4     ab    f          g    eb   f    db         c4   d
         Eb7/Bb Bbm9 Bbm7  Eb/Bb Ab   D7+9 C7-9+5  Fm      Bb/C
Not some man -  made  god  dess  cus  tom  cut and spliced

      f3  ab  c4  eb  c d  bb3
Fm                Eb/C
                                                  db4   eb     db
              Fm        Gm/C   Fm        Gm/C     Db7   Db9    Db7
Don't need no great big set of charms to tempt my heart

        eb4   eb
        Db9   Db7
Oh no             prefer the

g4     ab    f      g      eb  f     db                     c  d
Eb7/Bb Bbm9  Db/Bb  Eb/Bb  Ab  D7+9  C7-9+5              Fm   Bb/C
feel   of    some   thing  real             over plastic art


  f3  ab  c4  eb  c d  bb3
Fm            Eb/C               Bbm9
                       Well Aphrodite's got grace
       Db9
but she ain't the face

                             f   ab  bb b bb ab f
  C7-9+5      Fm    Bb/C    Fm
I know and I love                            Cause I got

Eb9                           D9    Db9
blood in these veins    while she's some spooky dame


                     c4 c c c c c c c c c c
G7+9+5              C7+5
Lost in the heavens above

           A+5/B    Bbm7     Eb7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                       Gbmaj7/Ab         Ab9       Dbmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star


                    Gm7-5  C7addF          Fm  Gdim  Ab6
Why do you wanna be anyone else other than who you   are

           F7-9+5   Bbm7    Eb7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                    Gbmaj7/Ab           Ab9    Dbmaj7
When you?re so much more than she could ever   be

                     Gm7-5        Gm7/C
Yeah I feel like I?m losing you

C7-9+5      Fm           Bb/C   Fm
       Come back to me

               Fm       Gm/C   Fm           Gm/Bb  Db13
Don?t want no hand-made inlaid     porcelain china doll


bb4  bb ab      eb f ab e eb
Db13                      Db11
                     Oh no

           g4    ab    f     g       eb         db
         Eb7/Bb  Bbm9 Db/Bb Eb7/Bb  G7-9+5     C7-9+5     Fm
Not some babe    who  comes un      stitched before every mirror

            c   d      f3  ab  c4  eb c d  bb3
               Bb/C   Fm           Eb/C
on the wall                             Yeah De

                         eb4            db
Bbm7                     Db9           C7-9+5
Milo?s some piece but no thanks please

                          f4  ab  bb b bb ab f
       Fm     Gm/C   Fm              Bb
Not my cup of tea... Oh no

               Eb9                D9  Db9
?Cause I want flesh and bone      and not some block of stone



                      c4 c c c c c c c c c c
G7+5               C7+5
Lying in bed next to me

           A+5/B    Bbm7     Eb7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                       Gbmaj7/Ab         Ab9       Dbmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star


                    Gm7-5          C7addF             Fm  Gdim  Ab6
Why do you wanna be anyone else            other than who you   are

           F7-9+5   Bbm7    Eb7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                    Gbmaj7/Ab           Ab9    Dbmaj7
When you?re so much more than she could ever   be

                     Gm7-5        Gm7/C
Yeah I feel like I?m losing you

                  B13addC#
Blame it on those dippy dreams of beauty queens

    Bb13addC
Who kowtow to the pressure

Ebm13addF          Db7-9              Ab13            F7
Prescribing to the point of view that bigger is better

           Dbmaj9              Ab/C             Bbm7
Yea those tattooed lips those vacuumed hips this

               Bmaj7-5/Ab
 whole insanity

G7+5                            C7-9+5          F7+9+5
Remember what you do you do for you and not for me

Bbm7     Eb7
Venus

                       Gbmaj7/Ab         Ab9       Dbmaj7
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star

                    Gm7-5          C7addF             Fm  Gdim  Ab6
Why do you wanna be anyone else            other than who you   are

           F7-9+5   Bbm7    Eb7
Why do you wanna be Venus

                    Gbmaj7/Ab           Ab9    Dbmaj7
When you?re so much more than she could ever   be

                     Gm7-5        Dbmaj7 Gm7/C
Yeah I feel like I?m losing you

     Fm          Gm/C
Come back to me...

     Fm          Gm/C
Come back to me

                 Fm         Gm/C
Baby please come back to me

     Bb/C
Come back yeah

..organ:
|Fm    Gm/C    |Fm     Gm/C   |


                Fm     Gm/C   Fm         Gm/C     Fm    Gm/C
( Don?t want no marble statue smooth and cold as  ice )
                                                  Baby pleease
     Fm      Gm/C
come back to me...

              Fm...N.C
Don?t want no marble statue smooth and cold as  ice

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Peter Kruger
casparus@yahoo.ca