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