I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You is a song by Daren Hanlon off the album Little Chills that was released in 2004.
The single of I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You was released later in 2005.
I recently saw Darren live at the Biloela RSL, I had been waiting to see him for quite a while after hearing him first on Triple J radio quite a while ago.
I thought it was time then to learn a few of his songs and I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You is such a great song, so it was the first choice.
For such a lovely sounding song it certainly has its own little parts of chordal wizardry and timing.
So it has taken quite a few play throughs and practising to get the timings right and being able to play it and sing along with it sounding natural.
Wait until you start learning it too and you will find out how much of an ear worm it is.
The chords for guitar are below for you with a few notes too, and also the video for the song off Youtube so you don’t have to go hunting for it when you start learning.
Play I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You on Guitar
Put your capo 5th Fret.
G C G D
G C G D
G C G D
I wish that I was beautiful for you
G C G D Em
I wish that I inspired tiny fireworks inside the way you do
G
So delicately made
C
A prayer left unprayed
C G Am G D C Am
Before the morning sky fades up to blue
Cm
And I wish that I was beautiful for you
G C G D
G C G D
G C G D
I wish that somehow I could find a pill
G C G D Em
For a quick fix modern tonic that would change me with one swallow I would kill
G
Watch folks line up to pay
C
Stare at me all day
C G Am G D C Am
But I’d turn them all away if that be thy will
Cm
One tiny little innocuous pill
G C G D
G C G
D Am D Am
But a wish is just a pin in a swimming pool of needles
Em A G C D G
If for one night you need the room I wish to be your tomb
D
You can lie in me
G C G D
G C G D
G C G D
G C G D
G C G D
Is it possible I have other things you need
G C G D Em
But to be worthy of a single page out of one of those magazines you read
G
As glossy as a mirror
C
But mirrors never lie
C G Am G D C Am
They’re diff-icult on the eye it’s true
Cm
And I wish that I was beautiful for you
G C G D
G C G D
G C G D
I dreamed that we were traveling on a bus
G C G D
Speeding along an un-named plain towards somewhere and nowhere there
Em
was us
G
Our hands lay useless in our laps
C
Like beetles on their backs
G C G D
We came to a stretch of road where a fire
G C G D
Had burned the edges all along it looked as though the highway wore
Em
eyeliner
G
You kissed me by surprise
C
When I opened my eyes
C G Am G D C Am
You’d turned in-to some old guy I screamed
Cm G
But don’t forget of all these things I’ve only dreamed
Am D Am
Em A G C D G
If for one night you need the room I can be your tomb
D
You can lie in me
G C G D
G C G D G
Notes on playing I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You
Below is the Youtube video for you of the song off the Flippin Yeah Videos channel.
The thing is with this song and the structure of it is that is doesn’t follow the standard structures of a song.
The chords do, but you aren’t singing I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You at the end of every verse in a chorus.
The story and the song continue on, and I think that what drags you into it even more when listening, and learning it too.
Other than that, a very enjoyable song to learn and play on my guitar.
A little challenging with the chord changes and timings, but you get that sometimes with good songs.
Anyway, enjoy this Darren Hanlon song, keep an eye out for the next one!