Verse
B C#m
It started as a bet
D#m
The story of a life
E
Part engineered to fit the scenery
B C#m
He'd loved a racist once
D#m
She kept a tidy house
E B
It must have paid much better in the seventies
C#m
Back then you could be gay
D#m
But in a manly way
E
He held no truck with water pistols
B C#m
Alternative lifestyles
D#m
Were for the middle class
E E
At worst they could write poems about their misadventures
E B
No real man could envy them that
B
[chorus]
C#m E
Softly - suddenly
[verse 2]
B C#m
She'd started as an eight
D#m
Then sunk into a ten
E
He put it down to carbon dating
B C#m
Their daughter had his laugh
D#m
But not his smoker's cough
E B
It must have been the lack of tar in heroin
C#m
She took herself to Wales
D#m
Excelled in telesales
E
Cold-calling deep into the evening
B C#m
Her second husband came
D#m
And left before the spring
E E
It must have been the season for unhappy drunks
E B
Her father had a similar trigger
B
[chorus]
C#m E
Softly - suddenly
[bridge]
B
I gratefully accept this black eye
B
No one knows as well as me
C#m E
The value of consequences
B
Do to others as you would have
B C#m
Done to you especially if in doing so
E
You find new takers
C
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