Get Me Away From Here Im Dying

GET ME AWAY FROM HERE I'M DYING

By Belle & Sebastian

>From the album 'If You're Feeling Sinister'

Transcribed by Ben Ufton

Submitted by Thelonius

Verse 1:

Oh! Get me away from here I'm dying

Play me a song to set me free

Nobody writes them like they used to

So it may as well be me

Here on my own now after hours

Here on my own now on a bus

Think of it this way

You could either be successful or be us

With our winning smiles, and us

With our catchy tunes and words

Now we're photogenic

You know we don't stand a chance (we don't stand a chance)

B - F# a few times

< Same pattern as first verse >

Verse 2:

Oh I'll settle down with some old story

About a boy who's just like me

Thought there was love in everything and everyone

You're so naive!

They always tell a sorry story

They always get it in the end

Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then

With a winning smile the boy

With naivety succeeds

At the final moment, I cried

I always cry at endings

B - F# again a few times

Verse 3:

Oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all

>From where I'm sitting, rain

Washing against the lonely tenement

Has set my mind to wander

Into the windows of my lovers

They never know unless I write

"This is no declaration, I just I'd let you know goodbye"

Said the hero in the story

"It is mightier than swords

I could kill you sure

But I could only make you cry with these words"

Cry with these words

Ooh! Get me away I'm dying

B - F# to end

Belle & Sebastian fans would be well advised to browse Paul

Mitchell's appealing site 'Sinister' at

www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~mitchell/sinister/