• Song:

    Venus Envy

  • Artist:

    Gino Vannelli

  • Album:

    The Best and Beyond

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VENUS ENVY

    C   Bb3          Csus4   Bb3             Csus4  Bb3  Csus4
    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      C#    Eb    C# 
 C#7  C#9     C#7   C#9   C#7     
 ice
            
         Gsus4     Ab    F          G     Eb F    C#              Csus4   D
         Eb7/Bb Fm/Bb C#/Bb      Eb Ab D7+9 C7-9+5      Fm      Bb/C    
Not some man -  made  god   dess          cus  to  cut and spliced

      F3  Ab  Csus4  Eb  C D  Bb3
Fm                Eb/C
                                                  db4   Eb     C#
              Fm        Gm/C   Fm        Gm/C     C#7   C#9    C#7
Don’t need no great big set of charms to tempt my heart

        eb4   Eb
        C#9   C#7            
Oh no             prefer the

Gsus4     Ab    F      G      Eb  F     C#                     C  D
Eb7/Bb Bbm9  C#/Bb  Eb  Ab  D7+9  C7-9+5              Fm   Bb/C
feel   of    some   thing  real             over plastic art


  F3  Ab  Csus4  Eb  C D  Bb3
Fm            Eb/C               Bbm7       Eb7sus4/Bb      
                       Well Aphrodite’s got grace 
       C#9
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    C#9 
blood in these veins    while she’s some spooky dame


                     Csus4 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

                       F#maj7/Ab         Ab9       C#maj7
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

                    F#maj7/Ab           Ab9    C#maj7
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  C#13
Don’t want no hand-made inlaid     porcelain china doll


bb4  Bb Ab      Eb F Ab E Eb
C#13                      C#11
                     Oh no

           Gsus4    Ab    F     G       Eb         C#
         Eb7/Bb  Bbm9 C#/Bb Eb7/Bb  G7-9+5     C7-9+5     Fm
Not some babe    who  comes un      stitched before every mirror 

            C   D      F3  Ab  Csus4  Eb C D  Bb3
               Bb/C   Fm           Eb/C
on the wall                             Yeah De

                         eb4            C#
Bbm7                     C#9           C7-9+5
Milo’s some piece but no thanks please

                          Fsus4  Ab  Bb B Bb Ab F                    
       Fm     Gm/C   Fm              Bb
Not my cup of tea... Oh no

               Eb9                D9  C#9                
‘Cause I want flesh and bone      and not some block of stone

                      Csus4 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

                       F#maj7/Ab         Ab9       C#maj7
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

                    F#maj7/Ab           Ab9    C#maj7
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          C#7-9              Ab13            F7
Prescribing to the point of view that bigger is better

           C#maj9              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

                       F#maj7/Ab         Ab9       C#maj7
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

                    F#maj7/Ab           Ab9    C#maj7
When you’re so much more than she could ever   be

                     Gm7-5        C#maj7 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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