One of my favorite lines in Belle and Sebastian's "Piazza, New York Catcher" does not exist. Instead of:
"Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world/
I will be your phantom man and you my wayward girl"
there is this, according to the lyrics:
"Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world/
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl"
The notion of a phantom man and his wayward girl fits together much more nicely. Especially according to this later phrase:
"I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
You’d settle for an epitaph like 'Walk Away, Renee'"
Perhaps I have ghosts on the mind. A lot of former thoughts make an encore in autumn to keep the mind brimming over.
Also, my brother found the chords to the song (assuming the guitar is tuned down a half step):
Intro: G
song:
G - - - C - G -
Am - - - Em - - -
Am - - - D - - -
Am - - - D - - -
C - - - Em - - -
Am - D - Em - - -
