Born to Act
Belle and Sebastian

There is a girl on the floor, she dances way out

She’s a snub nose beauty, she’s a no doubt

But if I talk to her, I even look hard

She’ll be out of this place and she’ll be out of my life


So we busted a move we got the hell out

We got stories to tell, we got our whole life

We drink coffee till late because we jet lagged

We put a fortune into the greatest

Music machine in the land


Play a wonderful song to me and it’s better than a date

Play the tune where the girl sings high

She’s my lover surrogate

And the waitress is rolling by, shining high

Smiling for a tip

Every boy dreams of it


So the girl dances in, she takes the next booth

I break the rule of my life, I make a big move

Cos my accent is funny, got a head start

If you wanna make good, you got to use what you got


We go with her friends and there’s a big crowd

There’s a girl who can’t stand up till she falls down


There’s a pressure that’s building and it’s too late

Cos eh leaves in the morning, there’s a flight

It’s a family affair


Play a wonderful song to me and it’s better than a date

Play the tune where the girl sings high

She’s my lover surrogate

And the waitresses rolling by, shining high

Smiling for a tip

Every boy dreams of it


So we met a month later, she had long hair

She was driving the bus I paid the full fare

It was easy to talk and she drove real fast

And she told me the story of her dirty old past


All the boys she had loved and all the bad sex

All the things she must learn and all her prospects

I was there for the ride and for the old soul

But we couldn’t go further, no we couldn’t go

But we couldn’t go further, no we couldn’t go

But we couldn’t go further cos the story was already told


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  Expectations   Extract from Tomorrow's People the Children of Tod...   Family Tree   Fiction   Fiction Reprise   For The Price of A Cup of Tea   Freak   Fuck This Shit   Funny Little Frog   Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying   Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying   Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying   Ghost of Rockschool   Heaven In The Afternoon   Heavin In The Afternoon   Here Comes The Sun   Homosapien [Dub]   Hurley's Having Dreams   I Can See Your Future   I Could Be Dreaming   I Didn't See It Coming   I Didn't See It Coming [Richard X Mix]   I Didn’t See It Coming (Richard X Mix)   I Don't Love Anyone   I Don't Want To Play Football   I Fought In A War   I Know Where The Summer Goes   I Love My Car   I Took A Long Hard Look   I Want the World to Stop   I'm a Cuckoo   I'm Not Living in the Real World   I'm Waiting For The Man   I'm Waking Up to Us   I’m a Cuckoo   I’m A Cuckoo (Avalanches Remix)   If She Wants Me   If You Find Yourself Caught In Love   If You're Feeling Sinister   If You’re Feeling Sinister   Is It Wicked Not To Care   Is It Wicked Not to Care?   It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career   Jonathan David   Judy & The Dream of Horses   Judy And The Dream Of Horses   Judy Is A Dick Slap   Last Trip   Lazy Jane   Lazy Line Painter Jane   Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie   Legal Man   Like Dylan In The Movies   Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John   Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner   Long Black Scarf   Lord Anthony   Lost for Words, Pt3   Love On The March   Marx And Engels   Mary Jo   Mayfly   Me & The Major   Me And The Major   Meat And Potatoes   Mornington Crescent   Mr Richard   Mr. Richard   My Girl's Got Miraculous Technique   My Girl's Got Miraculous Techniques   My Wandering Days Are Over   Nice Day For A Sulk   Night Walk   Nobody's Empire   Nobody’s Empire   Nothing In The Silence   Ominous Cloud   On the Other Ocean   Orchestral Intro   Paper Boat   Pastie de la Bourgeoisie   Perfect Couples   Photo Jenny   Piazza, New York Catcher   Piggy in the Middle   Play For Today   Put The Book Back On The Shelf   Rhoda   Roy Walker   Rude Bwoy Tug Life   Savage Sea   Scooby Driver   Seeing Other People   Seymour Stein   She's Losing It   Shoot The Sexual Athlete   Simple Things   Sleep The Clock Around   Slow Graffiti   Song For Sunshine   Soul Vibrations   Spinning Wheel   Starless and Bible Black   Stay Loose   Step Into My Office, Baby   Still Thinking of You   Stop, Look And Listen   Storytelling   Streets of Derry   String Bean Jean   Suicide Girl   Sukie In The Graveyard   Sunday's Pretty Icons   Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove It   The Blues Are Still Blue   The Book of You   The Boy Done Wrong Again   The Boy With The Arab Strap   The Boy with the Arab StrapLegal Man   The Cat With The Cream   The Chalet Line   The Chalet Lines   The Eighth Station Of The Cross Kebab House   The Everlasting Muse   The Fox In The Snow   The Gate   The Life Pursuit   The Loneliness Of A Middle-Distance Runner   The Magic Of A Kind Word   The Model   The Party Line   The Power Of Three   The Rollercoaster Ride   The Stars of Track & Field   The Stars Of Track And Field   The State I Am In   The Wrong Girl   There Magic Of A Kind Word   There's Too Much Love   This Is Just A Modern Rock Song   To Be Myself Completely   Today (This Army's for Peace)   Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser   Twelve Days Of Christmas   Two Birds   Waiting For The Moon To Rise   Wandering Alone   Watch the Flowers Grow   We Are The Sleepyheads   We Rule The School   White Collar Boy   Winter Wooskie   Woman's Realm   Women's Realm   Wrapped Up In Books   Wrong Love   Yèkèrmo Sèw   You Can Do It   You Don't Send Me   You Made Me Forget My Dreams   You're Just a Baby   Your Cover's Blown   Your Cover's Blown [Miaoux Miaoux Mix]   Your Cover’s Blown (Miaoux Miaoux Remix)   Your Secrets

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