It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career

E                    A 
He had a stroke at the age of 24 
     A                           E 
It could have been a brilliant career 
         C#m         B                        A 
Painting lines in a school that was too well known 
         C#m            B                     A 
Painting lines with a friend that had gone before 
         E           B 
She challenged everyone to a fight 
          A       E          B 
But the prefects all backed down 
          A       E       B 
And they ran her out of town 
           A         E         B 
Cause she drank and swore and spoke 
        A         E        F# 
Out of turn, she was the village joke 

           E                    A 
She had a stroke at the age of 24 
     A                           E 
It could have been a brilliant career 
          C#m         B            A 
Getting clients to finance her strategies 
         C#m          B            A 
Filling time in on Safeways on Saturday 
          E              B 
She wears the clothes of an emperor 
          A        E     B 
But her paintings are a sham 
              A     E    B 
And they're going for a grand 
           A      E       B 
When the dealers come to view 
         A     E         F# 
Do they ever see the real you? 

          E                    A 
He had a stroke at the age of 24 
    A                             E 
It could have been a brilliant career 
         C#m          B                A 
Selling lies to the boys with the old Dansettes 
            C#m                B              A 
Pulling the wool, playing the fool, it's no wonder that 
                       B 
He is dribbling spit tonight 
         A      E     B 
And the one he sent away 
         A     E      B 
Was the only one who stayed 
        A            E     B 
With a spoon and a decent book 
             A           E       B 
And you can tell by the way she looks  
        A    E     B 
he is sorry and resigned 
       A     E             F# 
As he wets himself for the final time