Belle Sebastian - Beautiful

She lay in bed all night watching the morning change
She lay in bed all night watching the colours change
She lay in bed all night watching the colours change into green and gold
The doctor told her years ago that she was ill
The doctor told her years ago to take a pill
The doctor told her years ago that she'd go blind if she wasn't carefulThey let lisa go blindThe world was at her feet and she was looking down
They let lisa go blindBut everyone she knew thought she was beautiful
Only slightly mentalBeautiful, a bit temperamental
Beautiful, only slightly mental
Beautiful
She thought it would be fun to try photography
She thought it would be fun to try pornography
She thought it would be fun to try most anythingShe was tired of sleeping
They let lisa go blind, let lisa go blind, let lisa go blindThey let lisa go blind
She's looking like a queen
But if you knew what's going on in her life
There'd be a thousand barren mothers there to talk to her
If you knew what's going on in her life
There'd be two hundred troubled teenagers to sit with herAnd to talk to her
If you knew what's going on in her life
What's going on in her life
What's going on in her life
There would be a documentary on radio 4
She made herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes
She thought it was the answer to the fashion blues
She mad herself a pair of orthopaedic shoes
But she walked with a limp