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