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