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"Mona Lisa Waits"  by Cliff Eberhardt

          G                             Bm              
There are pictures in the hallway, this building is too big,

    C                            D
She hangs out here in Paris, but she's from Italy,

          G                         Bm
There's a million other suitors who stand in line like me,

    C                              D 
Who inch up to that velvet rope to get the chance to see.

(CHORUS)

G                Em 
Mona Lisa waits, Mona Lisa smiles,

     C                     D
Mona Lisa's distant glance sets us all on fire,

G                    Em
Everyone is looking, everyone can see,

     C                 D                       G    Bm  C  D
Everyone is temporary, she is not in love with me.


         G                        Bm
Does she always have to smile at everyone she sees?

   C                             D
Without a real commitment, she's just appeasing me.

G                                Bm             C
Her background is unfinished but I don't really care,

                                  D 
We are all allowed one minute and all I do is stare.

(CHORUS)

Bridge:

   Am                        Em  
It takes a certain genius to make us all believe,

            C                            D
That he has shared a private secret that only we can see


             G                                  Bm
'Cause we're all just grains of sand, it's that same old tired thing,

    C                                        D
The flight here took me all night long, this world is far too big,

   G                       Bm            C
So we are left to ponder a smile so undefined,
 
                            D 
A love for generations, the unrequited kind.

(repeat CHORUS)