WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Belle And Sebastian - A Century Of Elvis Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
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[Verse]
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We were sitting in the living room on the sofa, the wrong way round, looking out the window
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It was quiet, and then in the car park across the road we saw Elvis:
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"Look, there beside the postman's van"
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And he was walking round the postman's van
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Looking in the open door
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He looked as if he was thinking about getting in but then the postman came back
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And he swaggered off
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Walked past the window and down the stairs
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And then at the bottom of the stairs right by the caretaker's office
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He started licking the pavement
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Every night now since we moved in that new house
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There's this noise outside the door at just about
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Half seven or eight o'clock every night
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And if we go and look outside the door
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Elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in
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And then he wanders into the living room
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Maybe sits down on one of the chairs
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Or even lies down on the floor
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He doesn't say much, he just stays there for an hour or two, watching the TV
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We talk to him a bit (aaaaah)
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And then around ten o'clock (aaaaah)
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he'll go away again and not come back until the next night (aaaaah)
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There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here, around the house (aaaaah)
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Although it's right in the middle of the city it seems quite like the country - it's dead hidden (aaaaah)
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Safe I suppose, made for night living (aaaaah)
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There's a lot of squirrels and birds
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And Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there
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When he's jumped over the fence on his way to Byres Road
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Sometimes you can go out walking
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And when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore
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So it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you
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I suppose that's - that's why he spends so much time there that's why he's come to live there
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Or maybe it's just the squirrels
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I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot
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There's these two videos that we got for wedding presents
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Called the e-files, e-files one and e-files two
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About how Elvis is supposed to be still alive
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And one time when he came round we were watching one of those
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But he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair
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He was playing with his collar a bit, and we watched it right through
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And then when it finished he just got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything
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The first few times he came round I didn't speak to him at all (aaaaah)
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I wasn't really sure what to say (aaaaah)
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And Karen spoke to him quite a lot - she seemed to know what to do more than I do (aaaaah)
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He had quite a strange manner though, he'd go into your stuff (aaaaah)
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and look through it, then he'd maybe pick something up and play with it for a wee while
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But he'd never make any comment about any of it
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Seemed pretty rude to me
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I just watched whatever Karen did, and listened to how she talked to him and then
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After a while I started to copy that
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And tell him a few things
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Not really bothered about whether he responded or said anything back or not
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I think the first time I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine
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And I said that I would tell him about me and wee Karen
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And how it was that we'd come to be living there
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I thought he probably liked the fact that we were living there because he came round so much
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so, I thought he might want to know how it was that it came about
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We did it all over backwards, I told him (aaaaah)
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First of all we got to know each other and then a while after that we met (aaaaah)
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And when we'd known each other for bout seven years we decided to have an anniversary (aaaaah)
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And that went quite well (aaaaah)
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So after the anniversary we had a honeymoon (aaaaah)
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And that went well too (aaaaah)
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So after that we decided that we would get married (aaaaah)
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That's why we're living there now (aaaaah)
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I used to think my dad was Elvis (aaaaah)
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But I haven't told him that yet. I haven't told my dad either... (aaaaah)