Venus Envy by Gino Vannelli

VENUS ENVY

    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 Fm/Bb db/Bb      Eb/Bb ab D7+9 C7-9+5      Fm      Bb/c    
Not some man -  made  god   dess          cus  to  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               Bbm7       Eb7sus4/Bb      
                       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  Gm7-5  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+9+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  Gm7-5 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+9+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  Gm7-5 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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